It was Sunday.
"You looked more gorgeous!" only Kyle's words were still uttered here with his girlfriend. His reaction was quite the same when he first saw Kythem coming out of the gate at their rented boarding house.
As they walk outside the mall entrance, Kyle was still happy to feel the excitement, knowing that it was their first date by his crush and now his love of its life.
Kythem was wearing a yellow off-shoulder dress that matched the color of her skin, a high waist kind of denim jeans that were her vital size was fit to it. She even put a hair extension, up to her neck which helps to highlight her seductive collar bone.
Her board mate and her bestfriend Veira were cheerful to helped her with this knowing it was for their first date.
They are just assisted in highlighting a little bit of Kythem face. Indeed with a fresh but kinda elegant kind of look so Kythem's looks more beautiful and stunning.
"You too! You can also be prepared for this day." Kythem replied still in a face we're wrapped in a smile.
"You look more attractive without your eyeglasses the reason why I was worried about," Kythem added that change abruptly her mode into sad.
" I will invariably be yours!" Kyle said while holding her chin and pinch her nose after while smiling.
"Can I feel kilig with that?" pretend of his girlfriend to show that it doesn't believe in his words.
"I meant what I say, you are the only beautiful girl who captures my heart, will I find anyone else? You are enough!" Kyle said in a voice whoever can hear will capture the heart, his seriousness was out of it.
"Even the mall guard is stunned by the beauty of my girlfriend but I am not jealous cause I know I was the only one you love." but still he adds as they walking now inside the mall.
Kythem notices something, there were a lot of ladies looking at her boyfriend the reason why she can't help herself to stop in feel jealous knowing that her boyfriend was looking attractive.
Kyle would still utter something when Kythem held her hand and he couldn't hide in himself the euphoria he was perceiving.
"I think it's enough for them to know that Mr. Kyle Chavez has taken by me!" Kyle felt like a lot of drums playing inside his body after his girlfriend said that.
" You know, I want to kiss you now until you drop," Kyle said in half-joke and haft truth.
But intended them to smile the way they talk and tease each other. Only they know that they were happy and comfortable with each other.
Mrs. Ellie was inside the mall where she was in a high-class kind of boutique looking for a nice gift to their house servants for being loyal to their family where Kyle and her daughter Kythem in a lovely happy couple together had just passed by before she turned her eyes outside.
There is someone who recognizes her but she signs to keep it quiet in a good way. She was a kind and approachable kind of person so many admire her especially if she smiles with or likes talking eyes.
It was already noon.
Kythem and Kyle were eating at a famous fast food. Some people still glancing at Kythem because they're caught by Kythem's look.
Kythem doesn't mind this instead she was focusing on their meal. Also, Kyle doesn't mind it and what kind of dress his girlfriend is wearing now. Not because he's not a protective type of boyfriend, it is because who is he to outlaw it, he respects his girlfriend's decision because he doesn't see anything wrong with it either to prevent it.
Kyle notices Kythem bags putting on a free chair next to their table posing that the brand is KDC. He remembers that his mother likes this brand but he heard it is expensive to buy so it is unlikely that he will be able to buy it.
"Is my bag was nice?" but Kythem asked him because Kythem saw that he was staring at it.
"It was a gift from my parents when I debuted!" she added and she will remember how happy she was on that day, and she also remembered that just a few days left it was her 20th birthday and her parent's anniversary again.
"Yes it was nice and beautiful, I remember, I promise my mother that I would buy her such a bag when I graduated and found a job!" He answered that Kythem was happy to hear about it.
"I know you can also buy exactly what your Mom wants!" but Kythem assured what she said to him.
"I believe in that!" he agreed and wiped his mouth after he drinks the water because he had first finished eating.
"I can also buy my future Mom like that," Kyle said while looking at his girlfriend who hasn't finish eating.
"You thought I would choke when I heard that!" but Kythem just said and stuck out her tongue in response. He failed in what he wanted so he just laughed too.
Kyle is about to go to the comfort room so he informs his girlfriend who hasn't done finished eating yet before stepping out.
Kythem has just finished her meal but she still stays in the same location to wait for her boyfriend.
Until someone covered her eyes with a hand.
"You're quick!" All she knows it was Kyle.
"Hello!" but the man just said after a second he removed his hands in Kythem's eyes and faced it.
" Vins?" she does not expect to see her friend.
"Yes, I am the only Vins you know!" Vins replied in a pleasant tone.
"By the way, why don't you just message me? You haven't been to class for almost a week!" But Kythem just uttered a question to him but the young man just returned her with a wide smile.
"You looked stunning even at your back view. I didn't even recognize you right away. Who's with you, Veira?" but he says this instead in a way not to answer the question that Kythem asked him.
"No, I was with Kyle!" Kythem answered.
"Kyle?" he asks if that Kyle that Kythem talking about is what he thinks.
"Yes. He was my boyfriend now!" Kythem proudly tell to her friend.
The remaining smile on Vins' face suddenly faded away when he heard this. He had only been left for a few days because his grandmother had died and now it was as if his heart had been killed again which had not yet recovered from the discomfort.
"Cong- congratulations. By the way, I'll go ahead. I- I have something important to do!" His voice even cracks but he covered it with his smile.
"Bye. See you at school!" Kythem smiles at him while saying this before he leaves.
Vins literally can't breathe. It chokes itself as he leaves inside the fast-food where Kythem was.
He decided to came back because he had the strength to say everything he felt to Kythem but he was late. He weakened more as he watches what Kythem smile and emotion had released when she mentioned that they were together.
Knowing that the girl he dreamed of had already won with his rivalry.
He admitted that after he was betrayed before by the woman he loves, after that he mostly treated love as a game.
Treated others heart as a toy. He keeps showing his feeling in anyone he likes and committed to any number of girls he victim.
And now the presence of karma to him can't deny.
It looks like he was a moon without a star and be contented admiring Kythem afar. This is his only way to love the woman. No one knows this, so no one knows how painful he was felt now.
While Kyle heading back to where his girlfriend was with Kythem biological mother. Mrs. Ellie recalls with her mind how beautiful her youth experience was when she meets this boy.
Where she had two male friends until at the same time it rebuked their best friend rules when her two male best friends in love with her.
She thought that she would be the first to break their friend rules because she had fallen in love also with one of her male friends, not the guy who was looking like the boy she meets now.
After a while, Kyle said that they were close to his girlfriend's spot. It was a meter away but could be seen in the clear glass window which he pointed to Mrs. Ellie his girlfriend.
Mrs. Ellie was amazed because his girlfriend was a beautiful woman even at her back view. Kyle received a nice compliment from Mrs. Ellie.
When they were about to enter the fast-food, Mrs. Ellie hears her phone ringing so she stopped and pick up it and Kyle wait for a moment.
Kythem glance at her boyfriend at the door, Kyle was looking at her too so they smile at each other. Kythem was about to stand up to leave the fast-food but she was startled when she saw her mother that leaned her to sat down again. Thinking why her mother was with her boyfriend now.
" Why they are together?" Kythem could not dismiss what was contained in her, a nervousness by fear and tension.
"Kyle you know I want to meet your girlfriend but I have urgent things to do. Maybe this is not a lucky time. I'll need to go now!" Mrs. Ellie said and Kyle sees that the woman was really in a hurry.
"It's okay Mrs. Ellie!"
Kyle smiled at her before she finally left.
He didn't know why but he felt light while talking to that woman. He thinks that it looks like Kythem is the one he is talking to who is five years older than him.
"Are you done!" He said to his girlfriend water he arrive the table where it was.
"Are you okay? Your look dull is there something, wrong love?." Kyle asked her after notice something.
"Yes!" She manages to smile despite what she felt.
"Let's go love!" Kythem said after standing up where she accepted the waiting hand of her boyfriend to hold it and smile like nothing happen so that she can't ruin their first date.
Kythem woke up early where she received birthday greetings from every important person in her life and her board mates but she was a little bit sad because no birthday greetings were coming from Kyle, even morning greetings.
Now, Kythem is walking to her first class today wherein the department building. She was surprised because all her next morning class will not meet. She was a little bit happy because there was less stress today on her birthday.
"Our teacher should cancel also all my afternoon classes so that it more fun!" she whispered kiddingly while she keeps her cellphone. She was just quietly walking on the second floor of their department building because other classes were ongoing. She is about to approach the classroom that will be used in their class and she can already hear the noise of his classmates.
Fortunately, there is still no class in the classroom next to it so the noise of her classmates can't bother any class. She was entering the classroom, she immediately centers her gaze on the side where she is always sitting, which is full of gifts.
She was amazed because many remembered her birthday but she noticed that there were no names or cards from whom.
Meanwhile, inside the faculty room.
"I know she will like my gift!" Mr. Perez bragging to his co-worker.
"Especially the one I gave!" Mrs. Asuncion uttered.
"I know she'll like everything we give, but my gift is what she'll like more!" said one of their co-workers who caused a stir in the debate over whose gift would Kythem like and one of them didn't want to lose.
They just stop when their co-worker came smiling at what they were doing.
" Why Sir Francis? What gift did you give to her?" Mr. Perez asked him.
"Nothing!" he immediately responded as he put his belongings on his desk so they attacked him.
"The one like her I know no material thing is lacking in her!" but he only answers them.
"So what do you mean sir?" asked another of his co-workers but he just smiled wide foolishly.
"The point here is that you're fighting over who she'll like the most of gifts, but there's nothing remark coming from whom!" he added then walked out the door. While thinking how the heck his co-worker's intention, by creating their name to be honor by using the student.
"Happy Birthday day to you!"
She turned to the door when suddenly people were singing this song. Her friends were the reason for this with support from her classmates.
She focuses on just one person with a wide smile while approaching her with holding a purple cake.
Seeing those things can be seen in her reaction to how happy she was now seeing her boyfriend smile like that.
"Happy birthday Love!" After hearing her named speak after the song Kyle said her name and Lester give her a white bouquet of roses that count the same as her age.
"You are! Thank you all for this." but she just told all the pleasure she felt by that words.
"Ky quick, make a wish!" but Veira immediately said so she giggled. And suddenly she closes her eyes that her classmates wait for her a second to blow the candle.
She only wishes for one thing because she has nothing more to ask, everything on her was fine.
After she blew it every was giving her applause and cheer of a celebration.
She hugged all her friends and the last one she hugged was her boyfriend so tightly. Kyle gave her a sweet kiss on her forehead and followed by her cheek, " I love you!" and he kisses Kythem cheek again.
"And this is my presence!" and Kyle gives her a color royal blue box with a ribbon holder design on it.
He can remember how they coincidentally meet again Mrs. Ellie and found out that he was going to buy a gift for her girlfriend but his money was not enough. So the lady insisted that she be the one to pay but Kyle refused. He said the reason why he didn't want to. He wants that his own money will use to buy it because he will be happy doing it, especially if that is appreciated and happily accepted by his girlfriend.
Because of this, he makes Mrs. Ellie admires him more.
Kythem opened Kyle's gift first, it was a silver bracelet with design by a symbol of infinity that centered by a heart shape. Everyone saw it so the whole room became noisy.
Kyle put it on her wrist and kiss it afterward.
Kythem hugs him and shows him how happy she was, she even whispered in Kyle's left ear afterward these words.
"I love you."
Meanwhile, Vins was there and he was one of the witnesses of this kind of happening in Kythem's life, he could not see that even though he was happy to witness that his beloved is happy. He did not take to see this for long and he went out to relieve the pain he was feeling.
"With the right person, you don't have to work so hard to be happy. It just happens!" Veira said in the middle of their drive home to them after seeing earlier the smile that still covering Kythem's lips even though it was already driving.
"Don't you worry, one day there is someone who will look at you like you're the best thing that ever happened in their life." but Kythem replied that her bestfriend was annoyed but she just smiled at it.
"Fine you're the one who has a boyfriend and I am the NBSB to the two of us!" pretend to be offended with it.
"No Boyfriend Since Break!" Kythem just commented, causing them to laugh.
"I know that someone what are you talking about will come for me, he's on his way, she just traffics!" Veira still mumbled that after experiencing a sad ending kind of relationship, she assured them that it will not come about again. Added when she turned off with Reig after finding out the true character.
Veira and Kythem are now together in the same car, Kythem took her bestfriend home. All the experiences and memories in this place are still fresh in Kythem's brain. After meeting her bestfriend now, it wasn't easy for her parents to allow her to live like Veira's family, she still pays attention to her family's concern because there are still guards around her to watch over her, to sure that she fine.
She remembers here how hard she went for the adjustment but because she loved it so much she did not bear all that hardship and trial.
It was a happy chapter of her life because she found a new family she could lean on, the Corpus family.
In exchange for this experience was to study the course and enter the University that her father wants but because of anger and disappointment with her father, he did not follow it.
In the middle of the silence of the two, Veira was focusing her eyes outside of the car shield and she noticed that they passed already the road coming to their home but she just not complain maybe her friends were something to do.
Until Veira notices something.
"By the way, Kuya and I want to build a house there for our parents!" she said in a low tone after watching the land back then was vacant.
"I just went to school and now someone owns it already!" She added. She even mentioned it once with Kythem, she likes that parting because in that area you can see the wide view of the mountains at every angle even if it is not the highest location of the place.
"You still have plans to show me who lives there!" she complain after Kythem's turn the car in the direction of what she was talking but Kythem just quiet while continue was she doing.
They stop at a gray gate.
"Let's just see!" Kythem said and got out of the car first. So she just followed.
She was unhappy looking at the house, it was even sadder because the exterior of the house she was looking at was exactly the design of the house that she wanted, even the gate itself.
She was startled when someone opened the gate. He was surprised when one of her twin younger brothers suddenly jumped out happily of the gate and ran to hug her.
"What are you doing here youngest?" she asked with the one in her arm.
Veira's mother had a hard time giving birth to the twins so that's the reason why she died.
And she saw next her whole family coming out so she was even more surprised.
"Do you like it?" She looked at her bestfriend who spoke who was smiling looking at her as well.
"Kythem ..." she cried as she mentioned the name of her bestfriend who she immediately approached and hugged while crying because of the kindness she felt.
"Surprise!" but Kythem just said to her while caressing her back.
"You are the one who has a birthday now but my family has a big gift coming from you!" Veira delighted let out to her.
Kythem already gives her presence to her friend. It's long-held secret the construction of a house for Veira's family.
Veira was the second daughter and her older brother was a still studied marine. Were an apprentice and license was needed and it should be full-fledged as a seaman. And she has two youngest twins who are still in grade school.
Veira found out that her whole family still knew it just for a few days and she was the only one who didn't know about it.
"You helped my father get a job, have weekly groceries at home even Kuya in his dream of becoming a seaman, and I still have your black card and now it's not the one-eight size of the house you built compared to your family mansion. This is too much bestfriend."
Veira doesn't complain about the blessings her family receives after she meets Kythem, this is just the way she gives thanks. "Papa Franco's job was Daddy's helped, the weekly groceries and helping Kuya Muffy with his studies was my Mommy's reason then. That house just my only present and I insisted you give." but Kythem replied smiling at her and even pointed to the house she had built.
"That's still the way it is!" but Veira still spoke.
"You, let's go in, enough to cry so that my tour guide for her new home won't be ugly!" Kythem just said to her friend and pulled Veira into the gate so that Veira could see the stinking inside of their house.
Saying thank you wasn't enough to make up for her friend but still, Veira manages to say this over and over.
Preview.
Everyone is at the same table in a well-known hotel in the country. It was a dinner celebration for Kythem's birthday with the Corpus family and family close friends of Kythem's parents, family Razon.
Vincenzo Razon was one of the youth bestfriend of Mrs. Ellie De Castro, and Mr. Francisco was the other one.
Mrs. Ellie thought that she was the one who would break the rules of their friendship because she was secretly in love with Francisco so this man is the winner to get her sweet, yes.
But it ends in tragedy kind of love story because Mr. Francis has long been out of the earth's surface. So, Mr. Cristian De Castro was her husband today or we're she committed to be as wife and Kythem was their fruit.
"Looks like they were just kids!" the language of Mrs. Ellie to her daughter and to the son of her best friend, named Aikee. "Yeah, I still remember they didn't get along then," added Mrs. Razon that tends them to laugh at what they remember.
"If only my son had studied here in the Philippines, they would have been even closer!" Mr. Razon asserted.
"But they still have time to get to know each other better before they get married." but Mr. Razon immediately retracted what he was saying.
Mrs. Ellie notices the bracelet that her daughter wore, it's familiar to her but she can't think where she saw it. While they were chatting. The hotel staff signal in whom assigned to put the wine.
Before Kythem thanked the person who put the wine in her glass, she was stunned by the surprise to see who was one of the wine crew was. She can see in her boyfriend's eyes how painful it was, she can even see the tears that formed in the edge of the man's eyes. She knew that Kyle had heard all their conversations so she wanted to approach the man she loved and hug it but she couldn't.