Chapter 3 - ...

"So, you're just caring. I thought your overreacting. Sorry for being rude a while ago." Hashy apologize to her elder sister, pouting. "I didn't explain my point either, my fault as well." Hesha forgives her younger sister and can't resist its cuteness. "Can I join?" Zerah asked enterupting their family's moment. "Sure." Mrs. Miranda said with an open arms, welcoming the t ithree of them for a hug.

"Okay, I need to go back to my position now. I'll check if the video recording is going well. It's for my YouTube channel, subscribe at The Santos Family RealiTV, thanks. See you later." Hesha said with a grin then leave immediately. "Ma, Sister Zerah, I'll go back to my friends as well. See you around." Hashy left them joining her friends who's enjoying her brother's performance. Everyone around them is busy taking photos and videos of the live event.

Hoshi's mother can't help but to cry on her son's entertaining performance. Zerah handed her a handkerchief, Mrs. Miranda looked at her with teardrops in the eyes of a proud mother. Shockingly Mrs. Miranda envelope her in the arms, she didn't move for a second. And when she came back to her senses, she comforts Mrs. Miranda by giving her a soft pat on the back.

The emotional Mrs. Miranda apologizes when she realized that it was Zerah she's embracing, and not one of her daughters. She unconsciously hugged someone out of so much joy and feels a bit embarrassed because of what she'd done. Again, for the second time Zerah offered her a handkerchief, gladly Mrs. Miranda accepted it and gave her a loving smile from a mother. Then they both shared a not so loud laugh reminiscing of what happened.

After Hoshi's performance to hype the crowd before the awarding ceremony. He goes back to his seat, bathing in sweat, catching his breath with difficulty, facing his mini fan, drinking his mineral water quite several times. Then a staff approach him and give him some facial tissue for him to wipe the sweat in his face. And again, he smiled at her mother, but this time he caught Zerah taking a photo of him. So, he look straight at her direction, posing right to the camera making finger hearts then wink. He noticed Zerah was trying to hide her smile from him so keep on staring at her not knowing that her mother is looking at him, observing.

Zerah was only able to escape the situation with her best friends Sana and Nawa. Their cousins and their both recording a video of Jero's intermission number and as of the moment Jero's singing Euphoria by BTS maknae's Jeon Jungkook. "He's not just good looking but he's also good in singing, right cous?" Nawa is teasing her cousin as Sana is infatuated with Jero. "Stop or else, I'll tell Dah that you has a crush on him. Don't forget, I warned you." Sana threatened Nawa then rolled her eyes.

"Even if you tell him, he's not interested anyway." Zerah said jokingly. Nawa gave her a disgusted look. Sana and Zephy were suppressing their laughter seeing Nawa's frustrated face. "Hey, are you going to cry? Don't be so sensitive cous, Zephy was just saying that Dah might not be interested with you, maybe it's not infatuation anymore." Nawa's teary eyes turned into a slight smile after hearing those rare complementing words coming from her number one basher, Sana her own cousin.

"Don't take it seriously, we all know that Dah and I are super close, we're like fraternal twins but he never asked me anything about you. And let me just remind you that you're the one who's interested with him." Zerah corrected Sana's statement to annoy her and Nawa madly gave her a scary glare.

"What I mean earlier is that Dah not will never like you because if he knows about it he will definitely reject you my dear cousin. Look, I'm not insulting you I'm just trying to be brutally honest with you because we're living in reality. Remember, Dah's parents frankly told Zerah before to not fall in love with their son because Dee Family wants a woman who came from a wealthy family like them. The truth will only hurt us if we don't accept it. We're living in a cruel world. Life is not fair for everyone, so please realize it or you'll regret it later on." These words from Sana are like swords that cuts Nawa's heart into pieces that makes her tear drops from her eyes after listening to her cousin's honesty.

"Yeah, I get it. We can fight for love but we can't fight against our feelings. It's hard to fool your own self to ignore the person you love just because you know that he might not love you back. I'm not dumb to be not aware of it actually I've been stupid since the very first time I saw him. Just let me be, I'm enjoying it anyway. It's my life, it's my choice. By the way, Zerah. This time, will you please send some helping hand on your friend in need? Why can't you just create good stories about me? Tell Dah that we look good together, something like those stuffs. You're good at story telling but you can't even help me on Dah, so we can have a happy ending." Nawa said complaining, she looked really sad while staring at Dah, who is also having a serious conversation with Coen and Szujen after receiving an email from Music Movers Entertainment Philippines Corporation.

"Be thankful, I'm in a good mood today. I thought of giving you a make over so that Dah will notify you very soon. Since your very old fashioned and looked like my grandma, I'll be treating you on my aunt's salon and spa so you can pamper yourself. You need to love yourself before loving someone else. After that, I'll teach you some of the most important communication skills that you need to impress Dah." Zerah crossed her arms while looking directly in Nawa's eyes with a contagious smile on her face.