"She's already my Girlfriend." He said at hinigpitan yung hawak sa kanay ko.
Tinitignan lang ako ng Lola Niya.
"It's your first time to introduce a girlfriend right? I hope this is also the last." Lola meldy said and she smiles.
"For sure, Lola." He said and he hugged her.
"Well, see you next family bond." Lola meldy said and she hugged me.
She's so kind, napakasweet rin.
I thought they wouldn't like me, but they proved me wrong.
He introduced me to Tita Irene too at ganun din yung reaction niya like her mother.
After he introduced me, bumalik na rin kami sa upuan namin.
"Mia, come here." He said like a kid.
He get mia and she sit in his lap.
"You met ate Franze already right?"
He said.
"Yeah, she's pretty like my mommy."
Sagot naman ni Mia.
"Aww thanks gorgeous." I replied.
"How about tito dro? (Sandro) am i handsome too more than you're daddy?" He said.
"Oh no, if i say yes, my Daddy would be mad at me, so i'm saying a N-O, No." Mia said.
Tawang tawa naman ako.
Nagkukulitan lang sila.
A second passed and he's phone is Ringing.
"Wait, it's handy." He said.
"Mia, stay here with you're tita Franze muna, tito needs to take this call kase." He added at tumango lang si Mia.
He stood up at naiwan muna dito si Mia with me.
"Are you Tito Sandro's wife?" She whispered.
"Nope, im your tito's Girlfriend."
I said.
"Okaayy, but you would be his Wife soon right?" She said.
I chuckled and said " why? "
"Nothing, i just want you to be my Tito's wife, I don't like the Girl he takes here kase before." She said.
Abah may babae palang dinala dito dati.
'Girl? Who's that girl?" I said.
"The girl with the curly hair, she's pretty also but you're prettier than she is." She said.
Sandro approached us at umupo na ulit with us.
"Mia." Her Dad shouted.
"Go to your daddy, 1,2,3 go." Sandro said at binaba niya si Mia sa Lap niya.
Parang siya si Robby, i miss him.
"So let's go?" Pag aya sakin ni Sandro.
"May dinala ka na palang girl dito except me ha." I said.
He show me his confused face.
"Girl with the curly hair?" I said.
"The who? Girl-Curly hair?" He said.
Nag mamaang maangan pa.
"Mia said may dinala ka raw na babae dito." I said and i rolled my eyes.
"When?" He said.
"Why r u asking it to me? Ako ba yung nagdala ng babae?" I said.
"Ah i remembered it na, that was a years ago." He said.
"So nagdala ka nga?" I said.
Magkakaalaman na.
'That was my Friend, alicia.' he said and he laughed.
Friend daw eh bakit dinala sa ganitong lunch.
"Her Boyfriend is my long time friend, ano ka ba." He said.
"What? Do you want me to call her pa like ate Xandra para sabihin na hindi ko siya naging girlfriend?" He said habang tumatawa.
"No, just tell me if she became your ex or not."
"She's just a friend, like Sean." He said and he smiles awkward.
Napatawa nalang ako bigla.
"So let's go? I have an interview pa with handy eh" He said.
'Can i join?" I said dahil wala rin naman akong gagawin.
"It's up to you." He said.
"Let's gooo." I said and he just chuckled.
Nagpaalam na kami sa Family niya.
3pm, were already here sa handypendable studio.
Nagseset up pa yung mga camera man niya.
Nandito lang ako nakaupo sa Gilid.
A minutes passed at nag start na silang mag record.
Sir Handy knows the privacy of Sandro, kaya hindi naman siguro siya magtatanong ng kung ano anong magsasabihing may Gf na si Sandro.
Nakakailang question na si Sir Handy pero parang wala pa sa kalahati lahat.
"Are you open to enter a relationship?"
"Oh, a big No." He said.
He laughed and said "i'm too busy"
Hinayaan ko nalang.
"if you were to have jowa, what would you like to call each other?"
"Baby? Babe, honey bunch or else?" Sir handy said and he chuckled.
"For me That's so Cringe, and I can't call someone like thaAat." Sandro said.
Wow diring diri yan.
"It's up to her kung anong gusto niyang itawag sa akin, but i think i preferred love or Bud siguro para ma-iba naman.' he said.
Bud?
"Ok, why bud? Is that short for buddy?" Sir Handy said.
Yeah, buddy. Buddy means someone close to you kase right? I want that low-key relationship kase like you're a couple at the same time you're treating each other like a best friends.
So he want me to call her bud pala, ok noted, hindi na love.
Nice answer, bud.
"what kind of boyfriend are you naman when it comes sa relationship?"
"Seloso" he said and he laughed.
Buti inamin mo.
"But it depends naman kung ano ang ipinapakita saakin, you can feel it naman if you need to jelous or not eh diba." He added.
Hinde, seloso ka lang talaga.
"What's your face expression naman if you need some lambing or like that?" Sir Handy said.
'O my ghaAd, are you serious?' he said.
"Yeah, that question is here." Sir Handy said tsaka lang tumatawa.
"Ok ok, for you Handy Lao." He said
"I don't know but i think like this" he said and he did this.
Hindi ko mapigilang tumawa.
He caught me laughing.
'Ugh, can you cut that pls?' Sandro said at tumawa si Sir Handy.
"HaAay Handy Talaga." He said.
"Ok, we have a challenge for you naman."
"This Challenge is we called the Totropahin o Jojowain."
He sighs.
"Game." He said.
Abah pumayag.
We'll see.
Makatingin naman to parang nagsosorry agad.
"Ok first, Kathryn Bernardo."
"Required ba na mag explain about sa asnwer?" He ask.
"Hindi naman." Sagot ni Sir Handy.
Ok then
"Totropahin." He said.
Are he sure? Ang ganda ni Kath.
Ok ok, maayos yung sagot.
"Catriona Gray."
Hooooooyy!
"Tinatanong pa ba 'yan?" He said sabay pag taas ng Jojowain.
Ok remember this day Ferdie.
Chareng, kahit ako tatanungin Jojowain rin ang sagot ko
"Emma Watson."
Napatawa nalang ako ng malala.
Naalala ko bigla yung sinabi ni Rob na Girlfriend niya, Si Emma Watson pala.
"She's my First and Ultimate Crush actually." He said.
"Ok, let's move sa mga Hindi Artist naman." Sir Handy said.
"Ria Fariñas." Handy said and he laughed.
May pagkamatrip rin pala tong kaibigan ni Sandro.
"Ria Fariñas?" Sandro said.
Lutang Hahaha.
A second passed at nagsink in na ata sa utak niya kung sino yun.
"Oh Jesus, Handy what's your problem." He said at nagsitawanan kami.
"Totropahin nalang." Sagot ni Sandro.
Sandro's Pov.
Nako handy, sino sinong babae ang mga pinili mo.
'This Girl was nagviral palang yesterday, I don't know if you saw it. Did you?' Handy said.
"What's that? Who's she? Why she went viral?" I said.
I have no idea who's this Girl.
Hindi naman ako madalas mag Social media, im just using those for some updates at para makausap si Jillianne.
"She joined the Caravan kahapon here in Ilocos, she's with the Camera Man's car then the people suddenly take her a photo." Sir Handy said.
"maraming nagandahan sakanya Here, look." He added.
Kinuha niya Yung phone niya at pinakita sakin yung nag viral.
Nagulat ako.
I saw my Girlfriend in the photo with the Camera Mans.
She still pretty kahit naiinitan.
"Oh wow 65k reacts in just 22hours." I said.
I looked at Jillianne, at hindi niya ata alam na siya yung nagviral.
"What's her name?" I asked para marinig niyang siya 'yun.
"Franze Reyes." Handy Said.
Back to Jillianne's Pov.
Why me?
I checked my social medias at sumasabog yung notification ko.
I saw myself in facebook posted by someone, kasama ko yung mga camera mans.
Im the one who taking a photo of them gamit yung Phone, yung mga kasama ko talagang Camera yung dala.
I got shocked.
Why i went viral?
Nakakahiya, lamunin mo ulit ako lupa.
Ang gaganda ng mga tinatanong tapos sinama pa ako, nasira tuloy.
"She's Gorgeous, seems like beauty queen." Sandro said.
"Jojowain." He added.
"My friend's telling me about her na din before pa, she's my Friend's Friend actually. And i met her, mabait siya." He said.
He look at me and just smiling.
A minutes passed at natapos na sila.
He sat beside me and said "You're viral nga" while laughing.
"I'm so ugly there, heck." I said.
"Who says? Ganda mo nga." He said at inakbayan ako.
"Look at the Comments." He said and he laughed.
I checked the Comments at sobrang laugh Trip.
"Ang saya naman ng Caravan, anong pangalan ng may hawak na Phone?"
"Ang init na nga pina-init mo pa lalo."
"Kung ang English ng tupa ay sheep, bakit hindi ka mawala sa aking isheep?"
"Pafollowback daw ako sabi ng Girlfriend ko."
Can't believe so many people commenting this.
Nakakatuwa.
"You're famous than me na huh." He said.
I just chuckled.
3;49pm
We ate meryenda here with Sir Handy.
"I saw your reaction earlier when i say your name, you didn't saw your viral photo pa siguro nun." Sir handy said.
"Yeah, wala akong ka-alam alam about that." I said at pumiyok pa..
Tinawanan lang nila ako.
"Ok, thanks for the interview." Sandro said.
"HaAndy LaAoo." He said ng pakanta.
"Thank you Sandrow, paglalaruan o seseryosohin naman next." Sir handy said.
Tumawa lang si Sandro.
"Bye handy." I said at sumakay na kami ng sasakyan ni Sandro.
4:30pm na at malapit na kami sa Bahay.
'You want me to call you bud pala ha, ok bud.' i said.
"If we're in public, yes, i like you to call me love if the people around us knows about us." He said.
"Ok bud." Asar ko sakanya.
"Ok Franze." Sagot naman niya.
Pikon haha.
.....
"5 hours with you feels like it's just a minute." He said while driving.
"Time flies so fast when you're with someone you Love." I said.
I can finally say that he's right, slowmo doesn't happening in reality, fast forward does.
"Did i told you about the Man with his Slowmo Girl?" He said.
"I know you said it during kria and Jake's wedding, so Yeah.' i said.
"That wasn't the full story." He said.
"They get married, but they broke up.
He realized that the real love wasn't the slowmo." He added.
"It's Fast forward." We both said it at the same time.
"Why they broke up?" I asked.
"The man realize that he loves the woman more than his Wife, he realized that he loves the woman more than what is love." He said.
"He come back to the woman who he truly loves and he found her too late, the Woman already found her own fast forward. He found her in the hospital with her boy best friend, which is the woman he love's Partner now. The woman has comatose, her partner says because of an car accident, lasing daw. The Man all knows that the Woman he truly love, is loving someone na, but he's wrong.
The woman's Partner said to the Man "she loves you, she hurts too much that's why she's here. All these years you're the one who she wanted to be in her whole life, but you wanted other. She abandoned herself
'cause he misses you so Much. I love her and Yes were together, but I can't feel the love of her for me." Sandro said.
He stopped, pabitin Sandro.
'What's next? Then?' i said.
The Woman's partner left her, he said 'my turn is done, it's your turn to love her again." The Man Promise that he would take care of the Woman, he promise that we wouldn't hurt her again, he would wait until she woke up. A year passed and the Woman still not waking up, but the Man still waiting, siya yung nagbabantay sa Hospital. One day at the hospital, the Woman stopped breathing, The doctors ran there but they did nothing, hindi na kinaya ng Babae. The woman he love died and The Man didn't love anyone else na, he choose to grow alone than to love other woman. Sayang, he realized it too late, kaya The happy ending did not bother them." He said.
"Is that real life happened?" I asked.
"Ofcourse, that was Tatay Fred story. Buhay niya yan, kinwento niya sakin." He said.
Ako yung nalulungkot para kay Tatay Fred.
He's so faithful to that Woman.
The person was gone, but the feelings, memories, challenges stays.
I want someone to love me like that, but not Sandro.
If i died, i still want him the best, i want him to be loved, and i want him to love someone. I don't want him to grow old lonely, i want him to grow with someone who will care and love him forever till death.
And i wish, sana ako yun.
'Do you believe in happy ending?' i asked.
'No.' he said.
Ha? Why no?
"Maybe someday if that happened to us, I'll believe that happy ending really exist." He said
A minutes passed at nakauwi na ako.
Sandro updated me at nakauwi na rin siya.
................................
A year of being his Girlfriend.
I woke up 6:50am.
This day is Our Anniversary.
I ordered a bracelet for him, at dumating na kahapon.
Gold thin bracelet with a letter F Pendant.
Sign for My name, and his Name.
Ferdinand, Franze.
It's my gift for him.
I happily stood up at naghilamos ng mukha.
I go downstairs at nagluto muna ng Breakfast.
Mom, Dad and Red are still sleeping, kami lang dalawa ni Yesha ang Gising.
And our one and only Yaya take a day off naman ngayon.
Im done cooking at pinrepared ko na rin yung mga plato sa dinning table.
Pumunta ako dito sa taas with Yesha at una namin ginising yung kapatid ko.
I let yesha na gisingin si Red, and she did a very well job.
Pinagki-kiss niya yung mukha.
'Ate, your dog..' she said at sabay pagtakip ng mukha.
A second passed at hindi parin siya tumatayo.
I need to do something.
"Nathan's there, kanina ka pa hinihintay." I said at bigla siyang tumayo.
'Baliw ka talaga, kakain na.' i said at tinawanan siya.
"Ay, so Nathan's not here?" She said habang nagtatanggal ng muta.
I just chuckled and said "No, gisingin mo na sila Dad for breakfast."
He went to my Parents room at pumunta muna ulit ako dito sa Room ko.
I get my Phone from my Bed at nagcheck muna ng Social Media and some updates.
Sandro was online 4 minutes ago pero wala parin siyang message sakin.
I accidentally click the call button at natawagan siya.
Agad ko namang inend yung call.
I saw her profile na may green circle na, narinig niya ata yung call agad.
"Good morning love." He texted me.
"Good morning, lalabas ba tayo later?" I reply.
"It's up to you." He replied.
'If you're not busy.' i said.
"I'm busy, but we can go outside naman later ng 12nn, i'll pick you up."
He texted.
'Okay.' i replied.
He didn't greet me a Happy Anniversary, parang hindi niya naalala.
Maybe he's super busy lang kaya he forgot it, lalo na he's a Congressman na.
He won the election, and his Dad also.
"Ate!" Someone shouted galing sa baba.
That was Red voice.
Oo nga pala magbe-breakfast na.
Pumunta na ako dito sa baba at sinamahan silang kumain.
"Seems like something changed your mood." Red said while were eating.
"No." I said.
A minutes passed at tapos na kaming kumain at nakapagpahinga na rin.
"Let's go?" My Dad said to my Mom.
"I'll join." Red said.
"Where you guys going?" Tanong ko naman.
"Covered court, zumba and have some exercise." My mom said.
Iiwan ako ako ng mga to ditong mag-isa sa bahay.
"Sama ako." I said.
"No.' biglang sagot sakin ng mga magulang ko.
Grabe naman magreact tong dalawang matanda.
"Mapapagod ka lang ng sobra." My dad said.
Sabagay di rin ako sanay mapagod, when i was in london, aral lang ako ng aral, hindi ako nagpakagod, mata lang at daliri.
Pero ayoko naman ma-iwang mag isa dito.
"Di nalang ako magpapakapagod." Sagot ko sakanila.
........
Ako ang nagwagi.
I convinced them at sinama nila ako.
Yesha's with us pala, im walking her dito sa court.
Nasa gitna naman ng Court yung dalawang senior citizens nagzuzumba.
Red is taking her own exercise naman sa gilid.
Kanina pa ako naglalakad-lakad, naiinip na ako.
Sana pala hindi nalang ako sumama.
Umupo muna ako dito sa gilid at nagpahinga.
Tinali ko muna si Yesha dito at nag exercise with red.
"Change life style?' she said.
"Maybe from now on." I said.
We exercise at ang sarap sa Feeling, parang pumayat ka agad hahaha.
12minutes lang ata with basic exercise, Pero pagod na agad ako.
Umupo muna ako sa Floor at nagpahinga ng kaunti.
A minutes passed and i saw girls na pumasok dito sa court ng may daka dakang volleyball.
Mukhang teenager sila like my Sister.
They playing na without net, and Red joined them.
Nakaka-inggit.
Volleyball is my Favorite sport.
Nung 2nd year high school ako dito sa Philippines i was about to represent our school sa volleyball league dapat, kaso hindi lang ako pinayagan nila Daddy, nakakapagod daw 'yon, ganito, ganon.
Everytime na nakakakita ako ng naglalarong volleyball, i can't stop myself not to join them.
"Can i join?" I said to the girls.
"Opo" Sagot naman nung isang babae.
Naglalaro na kami, mga 20minutes na siguro since i joined them.
Wala parin akong pahinga.
I was about to serve the ball, pero hingal na hingal na ako.
"Sub." I said at pinalitan muna ako ng isang babae.
I sat here with Yesha.
Pawis na pawis yung katawan ko.
First time ko atang mapagod ng ganito, as in super hingal ako.
I'm breathing faster but suddenly bigla ko nalang naramdaman na parang nahihirapan akong huminga.
Pinipilit ko nalang huminga ng maayos.
Baka sobrang pagod ko nga.
I get my bottle of water at uminom muna.
A second passed at bumalik na rin naman sa dati yung paghinga ko.
But still hinihingal parin.
Someone held me a towel.
The fingers seems like it's a guy.
O wag na kayo magalit, mamaya ulit.