Captured by Love

18

May and Julia just kept nodding their heads with silly smiles plastered on their faces, "Para talaga kayong sira." I was thinking of nagging them but my phone interrupted me this time.

"Oh, sino kayang mas sira? Tumatawag na si Kuya ni Ate oh." May teased me.

I picked up the phone and answered his call while May and Julia's eyeing me like crazy.

Hey

"Sorry, I fell asleep. Lapit na kami sa Taft. Nasan ka?"

Yeah, it's hard not to believe you are when there's a proof. How was the tune up?

"Ha? Anong proof?"

Akala ko you called me kasi nahihiya ka sa pagtulo ng laway mo hindi mo pala alam.

"WHAT!?"

Hindi ko na natuloy magexplain dahil ang gulo na sa kabilang linya. I could hear Andrei yelling and his teammates laughing, mga baliw talaga. I dropped the call at bumalik sa paggawa ng reviewer. Goodluck kung matapos ko to ngayon.

"Goodvibes na si Ategirl, tumawag na si Kuya."

"Oo nga eh, tamis ng ngiti oh."

"Teh, alalahanin mo di pa sila niyan."

Nagtsismisan talaga sa harap ko, "Uhm, hello I'm just here no." I declare reminding them my presence just in case.

"Uhm, hello we know!" feeling mean girl na sagot ni Julia, complete with hand gesture and head movement na sinakyan nanaman ni May, "Duh!"

Nag-apir nanaman sila.

Andrei Caracute calling...

Hey.

"Sorry, di ako nakapagbye kanina binaba mo."

Haha. Buhay pa ba si Jollo?

"Malapit na mamatay. Tsk! Malapit na kami sa school, san ka jan?"

I told him where we are.

"Okay, 30minutes. Sabi ni May di ka pa daw kumakain?" I gave May a dirty look, kumain na kaya kami kanina pa.

Papalibre lang sayo si May, pero I ate na. Kanina, I texted you di ba?

"Yeah, just checking. Andito na kami, iwan ko lang yung bag ko sa dorm punta ko jan agad."

Alright. Ingat, wag madapa sa daan ah.

"Wow, Ate di ako lampa no."

Just saying.

"Bye."

Bye.

It's hard to hide happiness lalo na kung may dalawang baliw na nakatitig lang sayo. "Tigilan niyo nga ako." sita ko sa kanila.

Naglean nanaman si Julia ganun din si May, para silang naghahuddle.

"Walang I love you."

"Kahit I like you wala."

"Mahina."

"Kaya nga eh."

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With the forthcoming season everyone's busy, even the student publications occupied with all the preparations. Andrei being part of the basketball team and I, on covering events all over school made it almost impossible for us to meet.

Funny thing nasa isang university lang naman kami, #magkabilangmundoprobs.

With exams week just ended, all those trainings and tune up games for their team, never-ending school events that I need to shoot, and everything else going on he always make it a point to eat lunch, merienda or dinner with me.

And today was no exception, I scrolled down my twitter feed while I am seated patiently waiting for him inside a convenient store near their dorm. Then a notification from instagram popped up, I opened it.

He tagged me on a photo I took during their off - season game. Natawa ako when it came to me na di ko pa pala siya finofollow back sa instagram and just 'coz I'm feeling a bit playful I also posted a photo with a caption, Still not following you.

The photo was taken by him, stolen shot during Ricci's birthday. Busog na ko kaya medyo inaantok na tapos he decided to play with my camera. It turned out decent.

"Ernestine?" right on time I was gonna say that when I raised my gaze at the person I thought Andrei.

"Tyler?" I was surprised to see him again.

"Yeah. I know it's very unlikely for me to be here but you're not gonna shoot me with your arrow, right?" He gestured if he could take the chair in front of me and I nodded yes.

"Just your luck but I ran out of arrows and I'm not in the mood." I answered smiling at him.   

Credits to the owners of the photos used. Thank you!