SEDUCING MY BROKENHEARTED BESTFRIEND Book 1: You Were Mine All Along

Chapter 24

[Alexander]

Maganda ang gising ko kinabukasan. May ngiti sa labing nagmulat ako ng mga mata.

Kumabig ako paharap sa side ni Steff. Pero nagtaka ako. Bakit wala?

I look for her on every part of my condo pero wala. Ang sasakyan n'yang gamit namin sa shoot ay wala na rin sa parking lot.

"Why?" Naitanong ko sa sarili.

"I thought magiging okay na ang lahat after last night. We made love thrice."

Nakangiti s'yang natulog sa tabi ko after that.

Pero ngayon umaga... she's nowhere to be found.

I checked if she left any letter pero wala. I checked my phone. 10 missed calls but it's not from her. It's from Jen.

Nagbihis ako.

I called her mom and ask where she is pero hindi pa raw umuuwi.

"Where the hell are you, Steff?"

I looked for her around the town for any signs of her pero wala.

I tracked her phone via GPS.

"Tss! Sa sobrang pagpapanic ko hindi ko na 'to naalala."

I checked her location at nagulat ako. She's in Golden Haven's cemetery.

That's where we burried Trisha.

Why is she in there?

Kung pupunta pala s'ya doon, bakit hindi n'ya ako sinabihan o pinasama?

[Steffi]

Hindi pa rin ako makapaniwala sa nangyari last night. I've given myself to the man na kinamumuhian ko sa pang iiwan sa akin noon.

Oo at napagtanto ko sa sarili kong mahal ko pa rin s'ya magpahanggang ngayon pero natatakot na akong magtiwala sa kanya.

Pakiramdam ko kapag nagkabalikan kami... any time he will tell me that he need to let go of me again.

'Yon ang mas nakakatakot. To fall in love with him again and in the end he's going to fail me again.

Wala akong ibang makausap. Kaya I thought of visiting Trisha's tomb.

"Hi, Trish. Hmmm... maybe its improper that i'm here. I just want to say sorry sa lahat lahat. Na minahal ko ang bestfriend ko at ipinilit ko sa kanya na kalimutan ka."

Bumuntong hininga ako.

Tama naman. Alexander treats me just as his bestfriend. Kung hindi ko s'ya sineduce I think he is still the same Alexander that I knew, the one that cares for me that much. That Alexander na walang gagawin to hurt me. Ibang iba na s'ya and maybe it's just because of my wrong doings. Inakit ko ang bestfriend ko.

"Maybe it's just pure lust he's feeling for me, Trish. Unlike you. He grieved for you. Pinaglabanan n'ya ang pang aakit ko because he loves you that much pero ako itong mapilit. Lumampas ako sa boundaries ko and now i'm the one who's hurting."

My tears starts to fall. Realization struck me.

I'm the one who made this mess for myself. Hindi ko dapat isisi 'to sa ibang tao lalo na kay Alexander.

I knew he tried to make us work. To return that love that I had for him pero I think i'm not the right person to make him forget about Trisha.

It's Jen. Yes. Jen. Who is the reason why he left me. The reason why he needed to break my heart. Si Jen na makailang beses tumawag kagabi.