[quote]This is Chapter 15 aun, tma ung mga hula ninyo... sina Lem nga ang may-ari ng hotel haha well, 2nd to the last chapter na and i don't know if i will be ending this happily or not what do you think? @ shy 19: haha... nku y r u emoting? emo? hehe... @ xxbubblie: welcome... yah 2 chaps nlng. well e2 nang isa, so 1 chap nlng @ ate mizel: i'll be putting the lime light to aljay... soon. i promise @ maree12: perfect match? haha, i hope mayaman dn ang perfect match q someday @ cutiegal: waah, myaman + sweet = Lem? haha @ minekoarch: haha... nku, e2 inupdate q na... update m n ulit story m ha... ang gnda keia nun @ jhayyuliajay: e2 n po... nxt chap na! @ ---mad4u---: sna aq rn rich haha @ ate meng: i'll think about it... tngnan ntin kng may kasalan haha[/quote] [u][i][b]Chapter 15[/b][/i][/u] That night before I sleep, I tried calling Nikki but she was already asleep, so I called Cloud. Just like what I thought, alam niya nga lahat. Alam niyang may gusto si Lem sa akin at magugustuhan ko si Lem. Alam niyang may gusto si Nikki kay Aljay at may gusto naman si Ajay sa akin. With that knowledge, nainis ako sa kanya dahil kung sinabi niya agad, then this wouldn’t be happening. Wala sanang love square. “Jae, alam ko yung nararamdaman ninyo sa isa’t-isa but even with that in my mind, I don’t think I have the right to interfere with any of your relationships. I’m just a mutual friend to all of you. I help each of you to be close with the person you like but I will never ever control what you want to do with your life.” I knew na may point si Cloud kaya sa huli, hindi ko rin siya masisi. Sunod kong tinawagan si Aljay. Nag-sorry siya sakin, which I accepted. Nagulat ako na kahit siya na mataas ang pride, nagpakumbaba. “Sorry. Nabigla ako kanina. Hindi ako dapat nagwala o nagalit. Nag-usap na kami ni Lem. Okay na kami.” Pero sa telephone conversation namin, hindi yun ang natandaan ko. What I remembered are the last two sentences he told me before he said goodnight and hung up. “Lem deserves you more than I do so give him a chance. Mahal na mahal ka niya at alam kong ganon ka rin sa kanya.” Okay na ako kay Lem, Cloud at Aljay. Kay Nikki na lang. Si Nikki na best friend ko, ni hindi ko man lang matawagan. After two days, tsaka ako nagdecided na tawagan siya. “At the count of three I will dial her number. One… Two… Thr—“ *Riiing* “Hello?” “Hello Jae? I’m so sorry. I couldn’t stand being mad at you. Alam mo namang best friend kita eh. Hindi dapat kita sinisi sa lahat ng nangyari.” Nikki was talking very fast, indicating that she was nervous, at the same time she was crying. In the end, we both admitted our faults and nagkabati. The next day, officially nanligaw si Lem. It’s been 3 weeks since that incident. Natapos naman namin yung project, with flying colors. Masaya because despite of the experience we had, maganda ang kinalabasan ng project. The day we were supposed to pass the project, absent si Lem. Pagpasa pa naman namin ng project, papanoorin ng klase bawat documentary tapos wala siya. Sayang naman. However, that wasn’t what struck me. What struck me is that 2 days na siyang absent and wala akong narerecive na message from him. With the two days he was absent, malakas ang naging bulung-bulungan na may aalis na student to study abroad. At ang hula nila, si Lem. Baka daw to prepare sa pagmamanage ng Hotel-Restaurant nila kaya lilipat ng ibang bansa para mag-aral. Although walang official record and proof na siya nga yung aalis, I was worried. Wala namang ibang pwedeng umalis ng school aside from him eh. My friends assured my that it wasn’t Lem… at na kung siya man yun, magsasabi siya sakin. I wanted to satisfy my curiosity so badly at nagmamadali akong umuwi kaya hindi ko namalayan nalaglag na pala sa kung saan yung cellphone ko. I just discovered that later on nung nakauwi ako, Pero di ko pinansin, what I needed is tumawag sa bahay nila. “Si Sir Lem po? Naku, nasa France po eh.” Those words, those words… had crushed my world.