Sinuklay ko ang aking buhok gamit ang aking daliri habang natataranta at masama ang tingin kay Zeon.
He continued fixing his clothes with an amused expression playing on his face, watching me as I panic over fixing myself to look presentable in front of my best friend.
He pointed at something using his lips which I mistaken, for I thought he's asking for a kiss.
Inirapan ko lamang ito at naglakad palapit sa pinto, huminga muna nang malalim at hinanda ang sarili bago binuksan iyon.
Faye looked at me with shock on her face once the door opened it my face welcomed her sight when she's expecting Zeon to open it.
She looks as if she wasn't expecting that it's me who's with Zeon in this room, but she quickly composed herself as she looks at my outfit and cringe.
“You reek of seggs,” Faye blatantly said that her eyes transferred at one place. . . as I realized that it's the same place that Zeon pointed too earlier only with his lips!
Mabilis kong tinakpan iyon gamit ang aking kamay at alanganing ngumiti.
“Hi. It's too early for you to be awake.” Sinamahan ko iyon ng ninenerbiyos na tawa.
It's true, it's only quarter to five. . . huh? Nanlaki ang mata ko nang makita ang orasan na nakasabit sa harapan. Six na?!
Lalo na't naging habit ko ang tumakas ng madaling araw ay alam kong tulog pa ito nang mga ganitong oras.
But based on her looks, especially her eyes, she looks as if she hasn't been sleeping for a while.
Hindi ko tuloy mapigilang mabahala lalo na't sa klase ng ekspresyong pinapakita nya, para bang may mahalaga itong sasabihin kaya'y nandito sya ngayon.
She looks at us with a bored expression on her face, but I know her. She's just hiding what she truly feels by using that expression— I wasn't her best friend for years not to know her like this before her eyes transferred into Zeon who remained at my back and watching us.
“I know it,” she whispered as she walked ahead of me as if owning this place and we're the trespasser on her haven.
Tinaasan ko ito ng kilay kahit na hindi nito nakikita at nakatalikod ito sa akin. She knows what? I shook my head. Yeah. There's no time for that.
Huminga ako nan malalim ngunit hindi ko alam, dahil ngayon ay pakiramdam ko'y isa akong kawawang aso ngayon na nahuli ng amo nitong may ginagawang kababalaghan.
I followed silently behind Faye as she walked towards the bed.
I thought she'll sit like a boss that she is, but then she halted and since I finally equaled her pace, I saw her cringing at the sight of bed before she looks at me with judgment in her eyes.
What? Malinis ang kama, duh!
Before she sighed heavily and fixed her composure, especially the expression on her face before she transferred her gaze to Zeon, then to me.
Doon palang ay alam ko nang may mahalaga itong sasabihin.
“Anyway, I'm here since I heard faint sounds coming from this room, and I didn't expect that those sounds were coming from you, Harper. I'm disappointed.”
Nanlaki ang mata ko nang marinig ang kanyang sinabi.
“What?” Hindi makapaniwala kong tanong sa kanya.
Gano'n ako kaingay? I looked at Zeon and glared afterward, but he just smirked at me and arrogantly learned on the bed frame with his arms crossed!
“I thought it was something. . . dangerous, but it really was something, a dangerous thing that an opposite gender could do without a proper relationship and protection, like kapote for dudes.”
Nagbaba ako ng tingin nang marinig ang kanyang sinabi at pinamulahan ng pisngi. Sorry po, master.
“But both of you are adults already so it's fine,” she said after a while that when I looked at her, she shrugged with a proud grin on her face, and even though she's not speaking, I know what's running in her head.
‘Dalaga ka na, Harper. Nadiligan ka na. Finally! And to a hot Papi pa!’
Ngumuso ako at nag iwas ng tingin nago palihim na tinignan si Zeon na napansin ang aking tingin kaya't inilipat ang kanyang tingin na mula kay Faye papunta sa akin.
I rolled my eyes at him because I was annoyed at how he even doesn't say to me that I'm noisy. But yeah, Faye's right. I lost my virginity to this hot man with us.
Who knows that the one who once I treated as enemy will be the one who. . . aish!
“So what it is that you're about to discuss? I assume that you wouldn't go here at this hour if it isn't important,” ani ni Zeon dito, diretso, at mukhang ayaw nang magpaligoy-ligoy pa sa pag-uusapan namin.
Muli kong binaling ang tingin kay Faye na bumuntong hininga na para bang naalala ang kanyang plano.
“Right. I came here to discuss something with you, Zeon, and I heard that you're using this room that's why I headed here, and never thought I'll witness this. . .” Inirapan nya ako nang gumawi ang kanyang tingin sa akin.
“Kaya pala laging wala sa aming kwarto at minsan ay gabing gabi na kung bumalik.” Ngayon ay tinaasan nya ako ng kilay na ikinaiwas ko ng aking paningin.
Shit. Bukod kay Sancha na tumayo bilang nakatatanda kong kapatid, si Faye ang nanatili sa aking tabi hanggang sa aking paglaki at dahil pareho ng edad ay mabilis kaming nagclick.
Tila kawawa talaga ako. . . bakit ba ako nandito sa kwartong ito?
“Anyway, here it is. I'll only say it once and this considered the most secret information. I overhead Dreyard's groups talking about something, and it's about Klaus. They said Klaus didn't know anything in regards to what they're doing and they don't know whether they should tell it to the kid or not. What it is? Do you know something about it?” Dire-diretsong tanong ni Faye gamit ang mabilis nitong pagsasalita at sa totoo lang, napuno ng katanungan ang aking utak nang marinig ang kanyang sinabi.
Dreyard's group? And Klaus didn't know anything? About what?
“Lower your voice,” Zeon commanded and quickly sat straight as if Faye got his attention.
Dahil sa sinabi nito ay tuluyang napabaling ako sa kanya.
Then, those words entered my mind, where he said that if only ‘that’ was the only thing that Dreyard did, he might forgive him, and I know that he was pertaining about the sacrifice of our companions.
But that phrase seemed as if there's a hidden meaning behind it.
And what do they know about their group?
Tumingin ako kay Faye, at tulad ko ay punong-puno ng katanungan ang kanyang itsura ngayon.
I know that it knows what it is, despite what's happening today at our internal group, she will still tell it to me, everything that she knows.
But what if she doesn't know anything too? And that Zeon is the only one who knows about it?
Mali bang pinapasok namin sila Dreyard sa aming buhay at pinagkatiwalaan?
Maybe Faye really couldn't contain her curiosity, the reason why her voice is commanding and sharp right now due to demanding answers to her questions.
“Explain it to us, because if they're planning to do something again like what happened in that day—”
“You don't need to know it,” Zeon cut what she was saying.
And truth to be told, for the first time, I saw annoyance and pain for Faye's face suddenly turned dark, but she's stopping herself from bursting out because she knows that among this room. . . no, among this house, it's only Zeon who knows something that we don't.
As we waited for what he's about to say, turns out he wasn't planning to say something. Again.
“Too much knowledge could lead to your death, it's fine that I'm the only one who knows it,” Zeon said with a voice as if saying, ‘don't poke your nose into someone else's business before he looked at both of us with a face as if he won't going to answer any more questions from us.
Aaminin ko, naasar din ako sa kanyang sinabi. I mean, ayon na, eh!
He could just spill it right in front of our faces so we don't have to be so damn curious about it so that we will know regarding it!
Pero si Zeon 'to, eh! Malamang, hindi nya sasabihin iyon kung hindi nya gustong sabihin!
Mahirap bang sabihin iyon? Kaya't hindi nya masabi-sabi sa amin? Kahit na sa akin na halos. . . tch!
And it feels like he knows what's running in my mind right after he looked at me that's why he sighed heavily.
“Stop poking your business here and just continue leading the group, Harper. Lead them into a safe place, away from this one. Because this place, together with the people we are with, isn't something you must trust. This place isn't what you can call haven in the first place,” he said with a straight face and dismissing tone and I know that every time he's showing this kind of face, he's serious about it.
But. . . what?
What did he just say?
The people here. . . are those we shouldn't trust?
“What should we do?” Faye asked him for a while of being engulfed with silence.
Kahit ako'y natahimik sa kabiglaan mula sa kanyang sinabi dahil hindi iyon ang inaasahan kong marinig.
My gaze turned to Faye in curiosity to know if she would accept it, and looking at her right now, she seemed as if she's willing to lend her life to Zeon's plan.
Hindi ko maiwasang mainis ngunit nanatili akong tahimik.
What's this? Are they planning to hide everything from me?
It could clearly show that Faye knows something, even a little. . . ibig sabihin, sa mga araw na busy ako sa pag iimprove ng aking sarili ay may mga impormasyon silang nalalaman na hindi ko napapansin? At hindi nila sinasabi sa akin?
I looked at Faye and I know that she felt my annoyed expression because she looks at me with a defeated expression— and this face clearly shows that she doesn't want this too, but she doesn't have a choice but to follow the plan of someone who knows what to do.
As I sighed heavily and looked at Zeon, which, right now, I know that my face looks so cold. Maybe he knows it, he felt it, that's why he didn't bother looking at me and look ahead instead as he stood up from sitting on the bed and walked slowly to the door.
Nanatiling nakasunod tingin namin sa kanya.
Just before he gets to move the knob, he looked at us with his commanding expression.
“Just continue to act ignorant. You are oblivious to their plans. And once I gave a signal, we will escape,” he commanded without proper explanation, and Faye knows that we must follow our superior without questioning their decisions that's why she nodded her head.
Ngunit ibahin nila ako, dahil sa grupong ito, dalawa kami ang nangunguna dito.
“I couldn't understand,” I said sharply at Zeon, enough for him to look at me and for the first time, his eyes are emitting those cold and terrifying vibes— something that I have only seen every time he's freaking mad.
“This is hell, Harper. And those people we are with, are devils in disguise,” he answered before he opened the door and left, while I remained frozen in spot, unable to process what I just heard from him. . . from them.