One Wish From A Shooting Star || A SharDon fanfiction

Chapter 5: Changing Destiny

"I've got something to tell you Reena, makakapaghintay ka ba? Tomorrow ko nalang sasabihin sayo, when school starts."

Iyon yung sinabi ni Asher sa akin yesterday through a text message. I replied with a simple "Ok." but I was beyond curious about what he had to say. If it wasn't too important, then he could've just said it.

I was so excited that I couldn't sleep last night. Tinawagan ko si Zach kahapon kasi kinabahan ako. Siya kasi yung best friend ko at childhood friend narin. Bata pa lang kami kasangga ko na siya sa lahat. During the highs and lows of my life, andun siya. 

Like a brother.  

Napaka importante niya sa buhay ko. 

He was the one who introduced me to Asher. Last year, Asher was just a stranger, at yung first impression ko sa kanya hindi rin gaano kaganda. Gwapo nga, masungit naman. Palaging serious at naka focus lang sa libro. Pero there was something magnetising about him, and as I continued to observe him, I saw the goodness in him. Matulungin siyang tao kahit hindi niya pinapahalata. I worked up the courage and talked to him one day and it's like I opened up a new world for the both of us. 

We clicked instantly. 

He seemed distant and cold, but when he first smiled at me, it's like all iced walls he had put up, vanished and melted. And just like that, I fell into a sweet trap. Ang isang manhid na Reena, naging marupok.

Hindi na siguro crush. 

In love na yata ako. Punyemas naman Reens! 

Napaghalataan ako kaagad ni Zach, and it was then that I saw a difference in the way he looked at me. I couldn't explain what it was but it felt strange. I chose to shrug it off dahil kabisado ko na siya. Overprotective, at masyadong sineseryoso ang pagiging kuya sakin, but he eventually understood my circumstances. After all, Zach and Asher are good friends and he could attest to his personality. 

My train of thoughts were interrupted when I realised that it was finally today, and I'm not prepared. Ewan ko ba kung bakit ganito nalang ako makapagreact. Yung isipan ko, sinasabing wag mag assume, kasi iyon nalang siguro ang natitirang rational sa katawan ko. Yung puso ko parang loka loka na... nag babakasakaling, aamin siya. Yung walang halong joke.

I never wanted to think he liked me and I never knew it was possible. But his eyes says, yes...yes it was. His actions, screamed the obvious, but I had to guard my heart somehow and didn't push it too much. He had hinted so many times and yet I always avoided the topic. Something was stopping me.

Is it the conscious feeling of fear? But why?

"Ba't di mo ako binigyan ng chance?", his voice echoed in my head. He had said this one time. 

Hanggang past tense nalang ba Asher? Magiging selfish ba ako kapag sinabi ko sayong paki ulit yung tanong na iyon?

Kasi ngayon... pwede na. Pwede na kitang bigyan ng chance. 

I was quietly trailing behind Zach when I finally caught the sight of him. I ran to him and hugged him tightly. I was happy when he returned it yet was saddened as he immediately loosened it, "Kaloka ka Asher, di ka man lang nag text sakin, sabay na sana tayong pumasok!"

"Ah, hinatid ko pa kasi si Aris kaya hindi na kita tinext" he was smilling but I felt off for some reasons.

I don't know if I'm just sensitive but this is me. I can perfectly read someone's facial expression. I cannot tell what they're thinking but I can feel someone's emotions even when they try to hide it. 

Awkwardness. 

Ayun yung feeling ni Asher ngayon pero hindi ko alam kung bakit. We proceeded to our class and listened to our professor welcome us to concepts that were too complex to understand at the moment. First lecture palang pero parang nahihilo na ako. Pero wala tayong magagawa, future ang nakasalalay dito, at alam ko namang maiintindihan ko 'rin to kapag nakareview na ako.