I could see the silhouette figure of the man putting his boxers on. He then grabbed another piece of clothing and slid his top in it. He closed the wardrobe door to find that he actually closed it louder than he was hoping for.
“F***”, he whispered to himself and looked over his shoulder to try and see if he had woken me up. I was shaking underneath my comforter with my teeth biting my lips to control my nervousness.
He then walked closer to the door and turned the lights on of a small lamp next to it. Dim lights soon flooded the room and with the sudden flash of light I was blinded for few seconds.
I closed my eyes from the pang it received from the light, but as I was slowly opening my eyes to look at the man…
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
“S***!”, the man yelped in surprise quickly diving for his towel as he heard me scream. I was shocked to see him just wearing boxers! I was surprised and quickly covered my eyes with my hands.
“Sorry,” he said to me in a hushed familiar voice. “Kala ko tulog ka pa”
“Okay na ba?”, I asked innocently but my heart was racing of what I might see again.
“Yep”, he said to me assuringly.
I slowly moved my hands away from my face, trembling from nervousness. I opened my eyes eager to see him but a bit of me is reluctant.
“MR ANDERSON!”, I gasped in surprise with him wearing a blue shirt and his towel wrapped around his waist.
“Mr Anderson? I told you last night to call me Gerald”, he asked to me crossing his arms on his chest with his eyes glistening with the faintest light.
“Last night?”, I asked him innocently. I could not remember a thing!
“Yup.” He nodded and smirked at me. “You even tried to kiss me!”
I was gobsmacked and I could feel my jaw dropping on the floor. “What.. how.. huh?”, I responded incoherently and quickly helped myself sit up on the bed but my head throbbed again. My hand soon found my temple slowly massaging it.
Gerald rushed in closer to me, quickly sitting on the bed next to me. “Higa ka muna”, he said in a hushed voice whilst wringing out the damp towel. He folded it and settled it on my forehead.
He was wearing a smile and quickly apologised. “Sorry I was only joking. We did not really… kiss”, and mumbled something under his breath that I was not able to catch.
What he meant with that really? My mind pushed this thought at the back of my mind to ask him for more important questions.
“Ok.”, I nodded. “Pero what really happened? I could not remember a single thing from last night. Where is Yeng? Ian? Sam?”, I asked him quickly but I soon found his sweet smile dropping in an instant.
“I’ll just… I will explain it to you later. I’ll bring in your breakfast here”. He quickly got up with sadness written all over his face. He was clutching for his towel still wrapped around his waist and got out of the room. I wanted to ask him of the sudden change of mood but he was gone.
I helped myself to slowly sit up straight holding the damp towel on my forehead. My body protested but I pushed myself, not minding the little headache.
Chapter 7
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