FF16

"Untrustworthy person is like termites that will eat your trust little by little,
until you'll suddenly collapse as you are empty from the inside." - FF16

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"Bes, I missed you so much!" Neisha shouted from the doorway as soon as she saw Yrrah in their living room, watching TV. She just removed her shoes, leave her suitcase, and ran to give her best friend a warm hug. She just came back from the province.

"Aren't you overreacting? As if we didn't see each other for ages," Yrrah said then, giggled. She missed Neisha, too. She decided to tell her best friend all about her ex, because sooner or later she will meet him, too. It would be nice to have someone whom she trusted already and would listen to her angst and confusion towards her lovers.

"Tell me the feeling of having a boyfie for the first time," her best friend said giddily, and sat beside her on the sofa. She pressed the remote to pause the Korean series that she's watching in Netflix.

"Why don't you put your luggage in your room first and change? I'll prepare our dinner and we can chat all about it." She already brought some food from home. Zach cooked their lunch at the mansion and prepare some extra foods for her dinner. He was also the one who drove her back to Manila as he's also going back to his work tomorrow.

Neisha grabbed her luggage from their doorway. "By the way, bes, have you seen the guy next door? Golligosh! He's so handsome and friendly. He even said hi to me." Her high pitch voice became more higher with her excitement. "Ate Franz is so lucky to have such a boyfie."

Franz is their neighbor in front of their unit. She's an office girl in her late twenties. She told them before that she has a boyfriend who's working in Dubai and they will get married when he come back.

"Not yet. Good for her then," she commented. She got the food container from the fridge and put it in the microwave to reheat.

"She's not that pretty but her boyfie, oh, my golligosh, he's more good-looking that Ae—" Neisha covered her own mouth, then gave her a peace sign and went to her room.

Yrrah just shook her head. She knew how tactless her friend, most of the time.

What would be her opinion if she meets Zach?

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Neisha asked her to elaborate in details of how did she give her 'sweetest yes' to Aeron when they're having dinner. She told her about the party and there she agreed to be his girlfriend, omitting about the part that she needed to introduce him to her ex.

"Awwee. So, sweet. I'm envious. I hope I meet my labadabdab before Valentines," Neisha said, after swallowing the food in her mouth. Then, she asked her what they did for the whole week.

Again, Yrrah omitted the Christmas day with Zach and told her when Princess and Lucas arrived on the 28th. They just went to the flea market, watched some movies, and non-stop swimming and partying. They didn't have the chance to hike again on the 29th, as it rained so hard. Their friends, together with Aeron just decided to go back home on the 30th.

Aeron was supposed to stay until the 1st of January but then, someone who pretended to be from the concierge of his condo building called him and said, that the unit beside him was caught on fire. So, he went home and it seemed that someone just pranked him. He wanted to go back in Quezon but she told him to better celebrate the New Year with his cousins.

"Why he isn't here? Didn't he miss you?"

"He didn't know that I'm already back. Besides, we're going to see each other tomorrow."

"Who. Is. That. Guy?" Neisha shown her the posted picture of Lucas and Princess on Lucas' FB account. Yrrah zoomed it and on the background were Aeron on the pool and at the far end were Zach facing his back on the camera while talking to Barbie.

"Don't tell me that the flirty gaylish has a love life?" asked Neisha, then, she browsed some of the other pictures, looking for another pictures, hoping to see the man's face.

"Hmm... he's my godbrother who just came back from the States," Yrrah replied, "And no, he'll never be into Barbie."

"Is he handsome? Single? Do you have a picture? Can you introduce me? Who knows he might be my labadabdab?" Her friend's eyes sparkled with hope as she thrown her series of questions.

"Hmm... Actually, I wanted to tell you about him. But, promise me not to tell to any of our friends yet. I'll be the one to tell them. Okay?" Yrrah asked. Neisha's looked at her with bewilder expression.

"He's my ex."

Now, her friend opened her mouth with a big O. "I-I thought, Aeron is your first boyfriend."

"Well, hmm... Technically, Aeron is my first boyfriend and Zach was my first ex-husband."

"What!" Neisha's jaw dropped and her eyes popped.

"I'm sorry if I didn't tell a lot about my life. I have a trust issue since I was a kid..." she started.

She told her about her accident when she was nine, that Zach confirmed when he asked him. About her school friends' betrayal and troubled she's into. Then, her dad's Will and Testament up to their divorce. Of course, not all the details.

"Ahh, that's why, you always turned down those who courted you before. He never picked you up from school, right? Why?"

"No. He's busy and I didn't want to anyway." She didn't want to get used to it as she knew from the start that it will end soon.

"But Bes, have you ever fell with your ex. Two years were so long, to develop the feelings though you started in the wrong way."

The deafening silence swathed her whole being for a couple of minutes. "I braced my heart with an iron shield," she lied indirectly.

Then, she told Neisha that now he's back, he asked courting her to start it right.

"Golligosh! Did you agree?"

"No. I have a boyfriend now and it's improper to let someone courting me. It's better to start as friend anyway."

Although, she could feel Zach's sincerity—the tiny voice at the back of her mind was still doubtful for his real motives. But he gave Zach an opportunity to be friends with her. The best opportunity for them to get to know each other again. He promised her that he will answer all her inquiries with honesty—the best way to test him. She wouldn't believe that she's being unfair with Aeron because they're also in the stage of getting-to-know-more. She could also access her feeling towards them.

Their chatting has ended when they heard Yrrah's phone ringing from her bedroom.

It's her boyfriend so, she talked with him. He wanted to drive over her place but she refused as it's nine in the evening already. They were just talking sweet nothing when she overheard the buzzer in her unit, and Neisha's footsteps towards the door.

After a minute, Neisha knocked on Yrrah's room and peeked her head inside, as it was partly open anyway. Her friend gestured her to come out. The wide smile on Neisha's lips seemed to be a matter of rush and life. She bid her goodbye to Aeron.

"Why? What is it?"

Her friend didn't reply but switched its glanced to their living room—now biting her lips as if trying to hold her excitement—with eyes as bright as the stars at night. Her own eyes automatically followed her trail and she too, couldn't believe to see their unexpected visitor.

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UNEDITED
1-2 June 2020

A/N: Short update lang muna habang may extra time.

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