Finding Querencia

Chapter Four

CHAPTER FOUR

WE ARE now left at the parking lot of our botanical garden where his fancy car is parked after my parents took his number and said their goodbyes to him.

"A week will do, I think. Is that okay with you?" He asked as he towered at me. "I'll take you home with me after a week?" He continued, confirming if I would conform with that.

And then, I thought.

I think, okay naman na 'yon. Ang totoo n'yan, nag-expect ako na kung hindi ngayon ay bukas kasama na n'ya ako. I mean— why prolonged it when I can come with him sooner than a week? Hindi naman ako ano— ahm— excited— syempre kasi ano 'di ba— I'm his wife na rin bakit pa papatagalin ng one week— like— ay basta, whatever.

"Ahm. Sure, o-okay lang naman." I agreed and became a little awkward.

Totoong may-bahay na ako. Shet.

He was just looking at me intensely with his glowing ash-gray eyes amidst the twilight sun which made me concious a little as the cold breeze touches my skin.

"Ahm. Pwede ko rin ba makuha 'yung ano— number mo?" I broke amidst the nerve-wrecking silence.

Bakit kasi 'di siya mag-salita! Tititig pa, nakakailang kaya. Amp.

I heard him chuckled sexily kaya napa-angat na ako ng tingin sakan'ya and saw him took his also fancy phone out of his pocket and gave it to me.

"Of course, you're my wife." He simply answered but because I am still not used to him calling me his wife, his statement made my cheeks flare.

Kaya mabilis kong hinablot ang cellphone nito sakanya while huffing irritably because of my own reaction. Argh! Kainis ka, self!

I slide the wallpaper of his phone and expecting for a passcode but it doesn't have any— and my eyebrows creased because his phone looks— plain. Iyon bang tipong bagong bili lang tapos 'yung wallpaper mga solid colors lang at wala man lang akong nakikitang bagong application.

"Halatang hindi nag-ce-cellphone ah." I stated and stole a glace at him in which he was just scrutinizing me kaya umiwas nalang muli ako at hinanap ang contacts.

"I am usually just using my desktop and laptop, so, yeah I don't use my phone most of the time, just answering some urgent calls for me and such." He shared at halos mahigit hininga ko nang lumapit s'ya sa'kin at nakitingin sa sarili n'yang phone pagkatapos kong i-type ang number ko at ni-ring ang phone ko.

"Done?" He lowly asked kaya mabilis kong inabot ang phone nito sakan'ya.

"Oo. Save mo nalang number ko." I whispered before taking a small step back at inabala ang sarili sa pag-save ng number niya sa phone ko.

Bakit ba paka-lapit niya!

Iniling ko nalang 'yon at inisip kung ano ang ipapangalan sakan'ya sa contact niya. I looked at him and saw him typed on his phone— kaya pasimple akong tumingin pero mabilis din nag-iwas nang tignan niya ako kaya napatikhim ako.

"Ahm. Ano... Anong gusto mong pangalan na ilagay ko sa contact mo?" Tanong ko sakan'ya.

"Anything you want." Sagot niya kaya nag-process pa sa utak ko before I nodded deliberately.