When Love Lasts

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I moved but pain suddenly rose up. "Aray!" napasigaw ako nang sinubukan kong bumangon pero agad kumirot ang katawan ko lalo na ang pagkababae ko. "Damn you Gregorio!" I shouted.

"Love? What happened? What's the matter?" he rushingly came to my room. I looked at him from head to toe. He's just wearing his boxer and an apron, he's cooking?

"Hayop ka! You did this to me!"

"Ang alin?" pagmamaang-mangan niya. Ang gagong 'to!

"Masakit siya!" I told him.

I saw him bite his lower lip before walking towards my closet. He took one big shirt before going to me.

"Wear this first please, I'm getting distracted." he said. He's the one who put it on me. "Let's go, I cooked us breakfast"

He was about to pull me but he stopped when he saw me tearing up. "I can't move. It hurts like hell" I cried.

I saw worry and panic in his face. "Oh Lord, don't cry love. Stop please." he started panicking. "Where's my phone? My phone? Where's that fucking phone" hindi mapakaling aniya habang hinahanap sa side table.

When he found it, he's dialling a number. Bahagya siyang lumayo sakin at paulit-ulit na nagmura. "Shit, she's not answering!" Then he turned to me. "Wait for me here love, I'll just call a doctor. You're starting to get hot." kinakabahang aniya at lumabas.

I can't feel any pain in my head and I am not dizzy either. Nangingibabaw siguro ang sakit sa baba ko. Nananakit din ang buong katawan ko. I touched my forehead and felt it, it's true, it's hot.

Napaigik ako nang subukan ko ulit tumayo pero masakit talaga. I was about to stumble down but I felt an arm catched me. "Careful love, just lay down. Let's wait for the doctor."

"Bwisit ka talaga." naiiyak kong sambit.

"I know. I'm sorry love. Lay down now." inalalayan niya ako at napapadaing na lang ako kapag nararamdaman na naman ang sakit. He caressed my head as we wait, he calmed me down.

After a few minutes, I heard a doorbell. "I'll just go check it" paalam niya.

"Where is she?" I heard a familiar voice.

"Over here" papalapit ang boses ni Greggy.

A lady came inside my room. It's Michelle's cousin, Eliza. "Oh, dear, what can I do for you early in the morning?"

"She's hurt down there. She can barely even move" si Greggy ang nagsalita. I heard her gasped.

Pinasadahan niya ng tingin ang kinalalagyan ko. Agad kong tinakpan ng unan ang pulang marka sa kama.

I saw him smirk and walked towards me. "Will you let me examine your core?" she jokingly said.

Agad akong umiling. "No"

"Then all you can do is to tell me and describe how you feel, everything. "

"Just pain. All over my body is painful."

"How 'bout your..."

"The pain is t-trippled. It's killing me whenever I move."

"This is your first time to do it right?"

Kailangan pa bang tanungin yon? I mean, that's personal. But she's a doctor and I guess it's part of her checking me up?

"Y-yeah."

"Does it feel like something is ripped inside you?"

"That's exactly how it feels."

Napatango-tango siya at lumapit sakin. She placed her hand on my forehead. "You're a bit hot. Well, you are suffering from laceration. Your core got stretched to the point that it got ripped. I'm sure you're sore, that's normal when you had sex." she then turned to Greggy. "Lalo na kung nasobrahan. Araneta ikuha mo ako ng ballpen tsaka papel." maangas na sabi niya.