[quote][align=center]sori 4 d super duper ever delay. xncia n tlga. tpos ndi p aq mkkrespond 1 by 1 ngaun. pls take tym 2 read d upd8. tnx [/align][/quote] [u] [i][b]CHAPTER 12 ~Part 3~[/b][/i][/u] Ako. Si Dervin. Si Nathan. At si Lawrence. �Fine, fine. Dagdag ka pa ng isang set for Lawrence.� �Thanks Steph. I knew it would be okay with you. Nakita ko kasi si Lawrence nung bumili ako sa labas eh kaya ayan niyaya ko na siya. Kaso lang I didn�t know that your boyfriend will be here.� �Ayan ka na naman eh. Hindi ko nga siya boyfriend.� �Hmm� Ayusin mo Steph. �Maya d�yan magselos si Lawrence.� ��Ta mo, humihirit ka pa. �Wag mo muna akong asarin, pwede ba?� �Sheesh. Hot ka masyado. Sige na nga. Tutal pinagluto mo naman kami and pinagbake mo ako ng brownies. Okay. I�ll back off.� �Thanks, Nathan.� �Another thing Steph, thanks for this.� I smiled at him and gave him a thumbs up sign as if to say that it�s okay. Really. It�s fine. This guy may piss me off at times pero his sweet naman. That I cannot resist. I went to my room first para maghilamos, toothbrush at mga kaek-ekan ng babae. Naman. Nakakahiya, puro lalaki sila tapos hindi ako mag-aayos? But of course, not super duper vain kind-of-way. I just want to be presentable. So there, I changed from my jeans to shorts and a black T-shirt tapos nag-pony tail lang ako. Plus the powder, no make-up or lip gloss, even lip balm. Di ba hindi naman vain? When I returned, kakaupo lang nila and I raised my eye brows to Nathan. He smirked back at me. Alam kong plinano niya �yung seats. Sinadya niyang mapagitnaan ako ni Dervin at Lawrence. We started eating and I was the first to break the silence. �Nga pala Lawrence, have you already met Dervin?� �Yeah. Actually nung game niyo nagkausap kami pero saglit lang. A while ago, we talked a bit rin. You seem close,� he said. �Oo, freshmen pa lang kasi magkasama na kami sa varsity and now pareho kami team captain.� Biglang sumingit si Nathan, �speaking of Basketball, I had just been accepted today! �Yun nga lang brutal �yung team captain. Sino ba �yun?! Ehem ehem,� then he laughed. �I�m sorry it has to be like that. Mahigpit kami sa members eh so medyo mainit ako kanina. Kaya nga pumunta ako dito, to say sorry,� sagot ni Dervin. The next conversations rounded on Basketball, nakakatuwa naman kasi nagkakasundo kami. Nagka-debate pa over La Salle vs Ateneo, which we later on just shrugged off. Everything was okay until Lawrence threw a question at Nathan. �Nga pala Nathan, last time your cousin here told me na ikaw na lang �yung tanungin ko, so marami bang naghahabol sa school niyo dito kay Steph?� Wah. Magbablush ako. I know it. �Hay naku. Pa�no makakapanligaw sa kanya, eh lalapitan pa lang siya tinataboy na niya, right Dervin?� Lawrence looked at Dervin as if waiting for his respond. �Well, hindi naman sa gan�on. Sometimes she�s like that around guys but I guess most of the time she�s just too boyish. She may not realize that a love of boys would like to go out with her but are afraid that she would reject them.� Teka, galing ba �yan kay Dervin? Bago �yon ah. I smiled but didn�t say anything. I realized that everyone became serious. I stood up and announced that I�ll prepare the dessert. That�s when I overheard Nathan returning the question to Dervin, [i] �Are you one of those boys as well?� [/i]