"Will you please, stop following me?!"

I exclaimed, losing my temper. Simula pa kanina, hindi na niya ako tinigilan. Frondo's not around, he was sent somewhere by the boards, to settle something. Things that I was supposed to do, but I declined.

"I just want as to be --"

"I don't entertain friends!" I cut her. Walking faster, nagbabakasaling tigilan na niya ako.

Mas makulit pa siya kay Frondo. Argh! Why am I surrounded by loud and clingy people?

"Well, I'm your future wife."

That's the term again, how many time do I have to tell her to drop off that freaking words!

"Future wife my ass!"

I don't intend to hurt her feelings, but I must if I wanted her out of my sight.

How could she be my wife? First, she doesn't have that emerald orbs. Second, her hairs not changing into two familiar shades of colors, three---

"You'll surely gonna be a bully husband."

I had enough! I turn around, facing her.

"Just so you know Amand-"

"Molly."

"Just so you know Molly, if I happened to be a bully husband in the future, then you're not surely gonna be my wife. I already have someone in my mind as my soon to be wife." I held her shoulders to turn her around, her back facing me. "Now, walk...walk away and don't look back. Look for someone who's willing to be your future husband, save yourself." I stated. Thought she'll follow me, but then, she turn around, facing me and hug me instead.

Drawing back many stares once again, kagaya ng eksenang ginawa niya kanina sa loob ng classroom. To where, she introduced herself as my future wife.

"Aww! How sweet of you…" She blurted out. I tried to get her hands off me. But then I failed. She's like a koala. She clung too tight.

"If I can't be your wife, can I at least be your friend?"

"I told you already I don't make friends at bakit ba ako ang ginugulo mo--"

"Please?!" She sounds so desperate. What am I gonna do with this one?

Why do you have to be always out of sight, when I’m feeling this hopeless, Lahari?

Well, I can't throw punch to get rid of her.  She's not Frondo. And still, she won't back down by that. For Frondo didn't too. Kahit ilang suntok pa ang igawad ko, susundan parin ako.

"Molly-"

"I don't have friends, I'm just new here."

"That's it! You're just new here, and you don't know me at all!" Nang hindi siya sumagot ay nagpatuloy ako. "Go ask someone else, not me." Her hug tightens.

"Iba sila... Among our class, you're the most distant one. And I have this assumption, that among them you're the real one. I don't need a lot of friends, I can't handle enemies anymore." She said as she pulled away.

"How can you be sure that, I am not like them? You're jumping of a cliff-"

"I just know you are, I can feel it." She then uttered, directly looking me at my eyes again and the next words came out of her lips, got me.

"They left me in pieces, and this is me taking a step, building up myself once again."

I stop just staring at those lonely eyes. Those orbs look tired, crying out in sadness. Filled with nothing but emptiness…

The feeling of being left behind, I'm in that state right now.

She also left me in pieces. And I don't have any idea where to start, building myself again. Once she decided to forget me instead.

A month without her was too much to bear.

When will you be back, Sweetheart? Or should I ask,

Are you coming back?

"Fine. Just friends."

Isang ngiti ang namutawi sa kaniyang labi a genuine one there, that beauty.

"Zannah!"

Naputol lang ang pagtitig ko sa kaniya, nang madinig ang ngalang gumugulo sa sistema ko, nitong nakaraang buwan.

And there I saw her. Still as lovely as she was before but when our gaze met, hindi ko siya nakilala.

The way she stares back at me, it feels like, I'm a stranger to those pair of orbs.

What happened, Sweetheart?

"Got you!"

She startled when he, appeared hugging her from behind. That put end to our stares.

"Zegolas!" She says in giggles.

How could she?

Hindi nakatakas sa aking paningin ang mabilis na pagdampi ng kaniyang labi, on the man’s cheek.

Agad kumuyom ang kamao ko, para akong nililinlang ng mga mata ko. She's definitely not Zannah.

Zannah won't do that to me.

Those lips! Those are mine. Fucking alone! And hell, get those freaking hands off my woman.

You're dead once the suns have set. I'm friend with midnight. I will tear off that freaking head of yours hang it or worse, will kick it like a fucking ball.

Next thing I knew, a pair of hands blocked my vision. Forbidding me to watch, whatever the hell they're doing.

And when I look at the owner of the hands, I saw Molly's sad eyes.

"Is she the reason why I can't be your wife?" She then asked.

Without further hesitation, "Nope, she's not my woman. She's not Zannah." I answered right before turning around walking away.

She's not my Sweetheart...

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