When The Player Meets The Game Changer

Chapter 34

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

HILLERY'S POV

After that long tight hug scenario with tita, we bid our farewells. Saktong natapos din kasi si Klein mula sa salon spree nya. He had his haircut and hair dye. And yes, I can't deny the fact na mas lalong gumwapo si Klein sa bagong look nya. His brown hair fitted his complexion, his clean cut hair made him a decent bad boy look.

Naabutan pa nga kami ni Klein na magkayakap ni Tita Karissa. Inasar pa nya kami na kung hindi lang daw nya mommy si tita, baka aakalain nyang magnanay kami. Nagkatinginan na lang kami ni tita at sabay na lang kaming natawa. Puro talaga sya kalokohan.

Hindi na namin nilinaw ni tita yung pinagusapan namin, obviously about the deal. It was a clean deal for me, yet a deal I don't know if I could really take. I finally admitted that I like Klein at hindi nya pwede nalaman 'yon. Not now, not never. Sana...

How hard could it be to resist your feelings? Lalo na kung nagmomove-on ka pa lang sa past love mo? Would it be easier for me to move-on or would it be harder for me to suppress this feeling because it was a forbidden one?

Since I don't have my car with me, he would assist me home. He was driving while I was looking at the road thinking about 'What ifs; would it be's' and thinking such things made me took a deep breath. It was a night full of insensate decisions. It feels like I don't know what is right to do and what is not.

"Lalim ng iniisip ha? Something's wrong?!" he asked as he crack the silence. I didn't let a single word come out from my mouth. Mahirap na, baka madulas ako. I look at him and gave him a smile, assuring him that I'm cool. Less talk, less mistake.

Pakiramdam ko dahil sa deal namin ng mommy ni Klein, things gotten wrong lalo na yung deal namin ni Klein. But no, it was right at first but not until I admitted that I was inlike with him. Napaisip ako bigla, I was balancing the thought of kanino bang deal ang mali is it Klein's or Tita Karrisa's nang biglang pumreno ng malakas si Klein.

"Holy fudge." pasigaw na sabi ko habang nakahawak ako sa seatbelt ko trying to get some oxygen.

"Sorry, sorry. Lumagpas kasi tayo sa building ng condo mo." he explained pero halata sa itsura nya na may iniisip sya. Automatic naman na napatingin ako sa paligid. And yes, he was right. Iniliko na nya yung sasakyan pabalik sa condo yet my heart is still pounding so hard.

It only took us almost 10 minutes to reach my condo's building. Bababa na sana ko ng sasakyan ni Klein ng bigla nyang hawakan yung kamay ko.

"Let's stop our deal." he said with a very serious face. Napakunot naman ako ng noo.

"What?" gulat pero naguguluhang tanong ko sa kanya. Bakit bigla naman yatang nagbago yung isip nya? "May problema ba Klein?" dagdag ko pa.

"Alam kong mahal mo pa si Rivas." he said. Hearing Rivas' name made me stop yet I was trying to find good words to answer him when he continue speaking. "And I'm still inlove with Yuri from the very first start until now. And dragging you to my hell life makes me feel like I'm a jerk. Pero sasagarin ko na yung pagiging selfish ko." I don't know what am I supposed to feel right now. Una, he said he knows that I'm still in love with Rivas. And now, he's telling me that he is still in love with Yuri which I knew from the beginning. Kaya nga kami pumasok sa deal na 'to di ba? To help each other move on?

"Ano..." panimula ko sa pagsasalita kaso isang salita pa lang pinutol na nya agad.

"I just realized that you're a girl and I'm a guy. No opposite genders would fit only as friends and maybe one of these days you might like me." he said being so cool of himself but I can't deny the fact that I'm hurting with his words. Because he's right. But he's also wrong, I like him even before he said that I might like him.