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Pan Alejandrina Vejar's

"Why are so galit?!"

Towhtowh made bitaw my arm as we make pasok their house. He cannot deny the fact that he is galit to me. He's like so namumula and so nagpapawis because he's really galit!!! With three exclamation points in the end! Like fuck!

"Hey! Why are you so galit?!" I asked him again. He faced me.

"Kasi nga look at your sarili like what do you think you're doing! Are you making benta yourself at the people in the compound?! Like fuck!" His eyes are like nanlalaki and his mouth is so tikom. I made hampas his am because his making me gaya.

"Don't gaya me!"

He made a face.

"You go upstairs and you make bihis bihis! You look like a call girl!"

My eyes widened. That hurt a lot! There's four ouch! ouch! ouch! ouch! in the end. I ran to the room they lent to me and locked the door. I cried. It was so masakit talaga like why would he say something like that? But then, I saw myself in the mirror and I really do look like a call girl. Like my malaking dede is showing and my pusod too like what the hell was I thinking?

But still! Towhtowh has no right to call me that!

"I hate him!"

"PAN!"

My eyes widened when I heard Kairos' voice. Like is that really him?

"PAN!"

Oh my god! It is him!

I opened my door and I takbo until I reached the ibaba of the pangmahirap na bahay. I saw Kairos standing in front of Towhtowh. He's galit but when he turned to me, he became more galit. He turned to Towhtowh.

"What the fuck are you doing with my sister?!"

My eyes widened more when Kairos suddenly sapak Towhtowh. Nabagsak siya sa floor.

"Oh my god!" I exclaimed.

He made sapak – sapak Towhtowh but I made him pigil but he's so galit!

"Kairos!" I called him. "Enough na! You're hurting him! You're hurting him so much! Enough na!" I said to him. I made him tulak away from Towhtowh but he's too big.

"Kairos! Enough na! I'm scared na!" I told him. I bit my lower lip. I am trying so hard not to iyak but it's too late. "Enough na! I'm scared na talaga!" I told him. His nakakuyom na hand is hanging in the air while Towhtowh was still on the floor. I was biting my lower lip. Kuya Kairos took a deep breath and faced me. He took off his coat and put it over my shoulders. He hugged me and kissed the top of my head.

"We are going home, Pumpkin."

But I don't want to go home. I can't leave. I don't want to go home. But Kairos had other plans. He took my hand and we left the pangmahirap na bahay. We rode his car and he drove away. I was just beside him crying. Hindi ko rin alam if where we're going but I finally told him that I didn't want to go home.

"Ayaw ko mag-go home. Papa doesn't want me."

"That's not true." He muttered.

"If it's not, the why isn't he here picking me up?" My voice broke. Kairos stopped driving. He parked the car in the sidewalk and he took a deep breath. He looked at me but before he can say anything he took something from the backseat. Clothes...

"Wear this so we can talk normally. I'll just be outside." He told me. Iniwan niya ako sa loob ng car. I just looked at him. He stood beside it. The windows are tinted so no one can see what's happening inside. I slowly took his coat off and I wore the shirt and the pants. After a while I knocked on the door and he went inside the car again. He looked at me.