The Story of Us

05: Move On

05: Move On

Gail's been treating me like a kid since that incident. She checks me up on like every other ten minutes, asks if I'm fine and sees who I'm tweeting, texting, and chatting with. Sobrang protective. Sobra na yung time na binibigay niya sa 'kin. She's making sure that I move on from Seth...fast.

Sino ba ang nakakamove on in just a week?! Tell me, sino? Because I'm sure no one does. Moving on takes a lot of time. It's a loooong process. I've heard others that it took them months to recover from heartbreak. Heck, I even heard they moved on after three years.

Holy mother of shiz. Three years? I'd rather die than wait for myself to move forward from a person. Ew.

Did it hurt when I learned he had someone else? Someone else who replaced me?

Yes, it did. I loved the person and after just after a month of our bond, may iba na agad. Sakit nun ah.

I know that he knew I still have feelings for him. Alam ko namang hindi siya tanga para hindi makita 'yon... But pinaasa niya ako. All he gave me was sweet nothings. He'll disappear after that.

Pero alam ko rin namang there's faulty on my side. Wala eh, I got my hopes too high. Umasa ako when I shouldn't have.

I could've listened to my cousin's and friends' words. Hindi rin dapat ako umasa. Hindi rin dapat ako naging kampante. Because I know, at some point, after all that we've been through, after all of the sweet gestures he did, he'd still hurt me.

And he did. He chose to. He chose to hurt me despite of his knowledge that I still love him.

Sabi nga nila, 'ikaw ang dapat na maunang mag-let go.' Ikaw ang dapat ang unang umunawa.

And Seth was the one who let us go. He's the first one, between us, who let go. I guess it's time na din.

Siguro, not everyone has a second chance. Second chances don't come easy. You have to work hard for it. You have to claim it by all your might. Maybe Seth and I didn't try harder to have that second chance.

And that's the sign for me to move on. Ano pa nga ba ang dapat gawin, hindi ba? I need to what I needed to do a long time ago: to move on. It is not easy to move on from someone, but if you really are eager to, why not? Kesa naman magpakatanga ka over someone who doesn't feel the same way you felt, right?

Hearing Kuya Enzo heaved a deep sigh took me back to reality.

I continued to eat my chicken burger as Kuya was staring off space, eating his fries.

"Yayayain mo ako dito Kuya, tapos 'di mo ako kakausapin? Ayos ka rin ah," I said to him.

He just look at me and blinked. Problema nito?

"Where's Ate Rue? Kamusta na kayo?" I asked.

He was startled by my questions but he still kept in silence. And that's when I frowned. Hmm, something's off.

"What's up?" tanong ko ulit.

"Wala," he answered. Kanina pa siyang tulala.

"Uy!" I said as I snapped my fingers in front of his face.

"What?" pagkagitla ni Kuya as if he woke up from a deep slumber.

Tinawanan ko siya sa naging reaksyon niya. Parang ewan lang kasi!

"Allison Therese Perez, 'wag mo akong kulitin. Mind your own business," Kuya Enzo warned.

I let out another laugh and told him, "Chill, Kuya. You looked so sad, and...weird."