Are We Just Friends? ( Chapter 34)

Sorry po sa mga nalito sa Chapter 32. I just want to try surprising readers on that way kasi. Just a few more chapters, and tapos na siya.... :) Thanks to all my readers!
Its my Birthday today so here is my treat for you all!
Hope you like it!

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" MM, forgive me..." A faint sound coming from a distance caught her attention. She was sitting in the park waiting for her DD. Then she heard the sound again. " MM, please forgive me..." It was almost five in the afternoon. There were not much people around. She kept turning her head looking for the owner of the voice. At last, DD arrived with 2 ice creams in his hands. " Want some?" he offered. 

She took one and started eating the chocolate. For the past few weeks, the voice of Tee kept on haunting her, as if telling her to go to U.S. as soon as possible. Also, for the past few weeks, she was helping DD to move on. She felt like she was herself like her school days. Where she started to develop her feelings for DD. It was developing again for some reason. 

" I've been hearing his voice for days..." she murmured. " Huh?" at first DD didn't get it. " Oh, you should've talk to him then." he said. " I did! But he asks for some forgiveness that I had also granted..." MM whined like a kid. She sounded desperate to get the voice out of her mind. " Maybe you should go and visit him as soon as possible Em." Dee said flatly.

Is there jealousy in his voice? MM thought. She wasn't sure. She couldn't tell. She cannot read his expressions the way her did to her. She stood up and walked slowly until she reached a koi pond. Her auburn and half-curled hair covered a little of her face. Which was a quite advantage for her. She stood there silent. Looking at her reflection on the water. Thinking about what was wrong with her.

DD followed her, his eyebrow raised. He looked sternly at her. Then, a shiny thing dropped from her eye. Tears... DD thought. It's been a long time since he saw her with that tear. The time he dumped her. He felt a pang of guilt. A poison arrow seemed to have hit his heart and started to devour his whole being. He was melting away. From what reason? He doesn't know why.

Sometimes in life, something would happen, unexpectedly. This is what happened to him right now. The poison arrow that had entered his heart is not a poison arrow. It was the memories they've shared together way back on their childhood. It melted him because, because of what sink in to him. He backed away slowly until he dropped back on the bench. 

It all sink in, right from the very start of their friendship, he had feelings for her. He was blinded by things around him. He was blocked by his past. He was not able to meet his present because of his past. He thinks and thinks, until he blamed himself for all...

" If I hadn't been blinded by my past, no one will be able to hurt her. He would not enter her life again and she wouldn't get hurt. If only I realized much sooner..." he thought as he ran his fingers through his jet black hair. 

Finally, MM turned to him. She looked as if she never had cried. She looked good as new. She smiled like the Cheshire cat. But is she just faking it. She was way to beautiful right now to be thinking if she was faking it or not. Right now, all he wanted to do it to go home and think. How can he be able to tell it all. 

Will he go and tell her straight away, " Sorry, I have been blinded and never saw you before. But now I realised I loved you from the very start." He can't. It's way to impossible she will believe that right away. He will have to face deeper challenge to gain her back. That's what at least he thought about.

He looked up. The sky why getting darker. And raindrops were soon falling. He quickly stood up. He tried to usher MM to the car. But she was not moving. Soon, she was wet from head to toe. Her smile vanished. 

She looked like she was crying again but he can't tell. It was raining. He couldn't understand. Earlier she smiled like the Cheshire cat but now she looked as gloomy as Frankenstein. She looked like a zombie now. What was happening to her? 

Have she really moved on? DD thought. He have decided. He carried her and made sure she won't escape. He get her inside the car and locked all the doors. " I thought, you moved on..." he said looking at her sternly.

" I'm still trying to," she mumbled. In between sobs, she would say " Is there something wrong with me?" He started up the engine and started driving home.

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" Why MM? Why don't you tell me, I can help you..."he was knocking on her door. 

The door burst open. MM pulled him inside. He closed the door behind him. " Stay if you want. Leave if you don't. I don't heck care of you'll help me. But I'm going to throw the remaining things he had given me." he cannot meet her dark gaze. 

He looked at a shiny sapphire necklace on the coffee table. Tee's present for her 18th birthday... he thought. He saw the necklace on that day. He took it and put it inside her closet.

For the best? he thought...

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 One month later...

" Stop being paranoid!" she murmured. She looked on the view outside the plane's window. " This is it!" she heard DD said. " Try and rest... If you don't, you might get your words mixed up when you talk to him..." Dee said while munching on his food.





 She dozed off and put away the book she was reading...

They were okay now, they have mutual understanding. She was supposed to go alone. But DD was so persistent. She doesn't understand why he wanted to come with her. But she'd let it pass. MM was aware that after the twist of events they've become more closer. She woke up and met his gaze when she turned.

She flinched when he poked her side. " Stop please..." she gave him her puppy eyes. Since all those incidents, he suddenly became sweet to her. She don't want to get it wrong. She felt there is something different, as if a cupid had striked D with his 'love arrow' and made him fall in love with her. But they are friends. That's what friends do sometimes... But something was forming in her mind... " Are we just friends? Are we DD?" She was brushed away in her thoughts when the cabin lights went off.

She turned to the window. She unbuckled her seat belt. She looked at the clouds on the night sky. It was soothing... Relaxing... She felt warmth as an arm encircled her waist. And a reflection of a young man on the window on her shoulder. She was almost dozing off again...

Wait! She turned to him and he gave her a sorry-it-won't-happen-again look. " Sorry," he mumbled and turned away. She looked skeptical. A number of thoughts flooded her mind. She whispered in his ears, "It's okay." then backed away again.

She looked like an angel... DD thought. He never realized what he did earlier until MM turned and she had this skeptical look on her face. There were not much people on the business class. Only him, MM and a business man who was sleeping like a kid 6-7 feet away from them.

He leaned and kissed her forehead. What the?! he thought. Did I really did that?!  Then he back away. He didn't expected himself doing that. He ran his fingers through his hair. Wish I could tell you, 'wish I could...he thought.

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