"CAREN'S ex-boyfriend is your neighbor?"
Lenos said incredulously as we got out of the elevator.
"Yeah. I didn't know that asshole was the owner of the unit next to me."
I walked ahead of Lenos and stopped in front of my unit. I turned to Lenos to ask him to open my unit for me. But even before I could tell Lenos what my passcode is, he already touched the security pad.
"Why did you know my pass code?" I asked him in disbelief when he successfully opened my unit.
“You always use your birthday as your password,” he replied.
I stilled. He's right. I couldn't believe he still remembered that little detail about me.
"HAPPY birthday, Caren!”The whole room was filled with everyone's voices the moment Caren entered the classroom.I witnessed how Caren blinked her eyes in surprise as the confetti from the ceiling fell on her. Her whole face was in shock.I looked around. There's a buffet table at the back of the room. Behind it, there was a banner posted on the wall with Caren's picture and birthday greeting to her.I saw Lenos standing near the buffet table. Beside him was Leah who was holding a small cake. Her long hair was in a braid and she was wearing this cute pink dress that made her look even prettier. The little girl started walking towards Caren who was still in shock about everything."Happy birthday
"LENOS…” I whispered as I continued to look at him. “Remember that day? The day we last talked before you left me…”“Cresia..."I sighed. “I never got the chance to explain everything to you.""I'm sorry…""It's okay," I said to him in a small voice. "It's all in the past now but I just wanted to tell everything that really happened that night…ten years ago.""I know it was already way too late but please, tell me everything and this time, I'll listen with all my heart," Lenos said, his eyes begging me.I gave him a small smile before nodding at him. This is the last chance I've got to clear everything between u
"SIR Lenos was absent from class earlier."Caren said to me as soon as she came back from school.I didn't go with her to class. I can’t see Lenos. After what happened yesterday, I just couldn't see him."How are you?" I asked Caren. She went straight to the bed where I was sitting. She sat beside me.She shrugged her shoulders. "Our physics teacher gave us tons of seat work." She grunted. "But you know what?" Her mood suddenly changed. "I got a perfect score on a quiz earlier." She grinned at me."That's good." I smiled at her.Ever since Jake was gone out of her life, I saw a dramatic change in Caren.
“MISS, two tickets,” Lenos said to the ticket seller in front of us.Lenos asked me to watch a movie with him. So we ended up here at the movie house.“Why are you going to buy two tickets?" I asked him. "You can just buy one, Lenos."“But we are two,” he whispered, glancing at me.I pouted. “But you know, you're the only one who can see me.”He chuckled which made the teller look at him.Thank heavens he was wearing an earplug on his ear, so everyone who could hear him would think he was just talking to someone on the phone."We're two so I'm buying two."
"CAREN and I went here the other day," I told Lenos. After we watched the movie, we went to the mall seaside.I turned to Leo's Lenos who was sitting beside me. I missed him so much. And I can't believe we're together right now.If only I could go back to the past, I would definitely go back to the time when everything was still rainbows and butterflies between us."I noticed she was already trying to pay attention to her studies." Lenos said to me. Lenos looked at me, a smile on his face."Caren's a good kid. She just lacks guidance. She's been deprived of love." I turned to the sunset and sighed. "Caren was only young when her parents separated. Her mother abandoned the family. And her father, he went abroad for work, leaving Caren alone with only an
"HEY," Caren greeted me when I went home that night. I found her in her room sitting on the carpet. She was in a lotus position while doing something on her laptop. Beside her was a platter of nachos."You're eating a lot these days, aren't you?"She ignored my comment and just smiled at me. "So, how's your date with Sir Lenos?""We went to a cinema house and watched a movie together," I answered. I sat beside her."Really?" She raised her eyebrows in curiosity. "Where else did you go?" She glanced at her watch. "I mean, you've been gone for hours!""I met my father," I said in a small voice.She stopped what she's doing and stared at me.
“I'M sure Marcus would drop his jaw when he sees you,” I grinned at Caren as I gave her a look.She was wearing a blue ball gown with a sweetheart neckline paired with silver stilettos. She looked amazing with that gown I chose for her.Tonight was their JS promenade and Marcus would be fetching her any minute now.She made a face. “Stop it. Marcus doesn't like me in that way.”My gaze went down to the necklace she was wearing. It was a silver necklace with a flower pendant. That piece of jewelry came from Marcus. It was his birthday gift for her."If he doesn't like you, then why did he give you a necklace?" I asked her with a smirk.
"CRESIA'S favorite color is black," Lenos told my father when the latter noticed the black roses displayed in my hospital room. "She likes everything that is color black," Lenos continued with a smile. "Black flowers, black flowers, black dress…"I was also here at the hospital with them. I was standing at the one corner of the room while watching and listening to everything they were talking about.I looked at my father. One of the nurses informed Lenos that my father visits me here every day. Just yesterday, when Lenos and I went to the hospital, we saw him here together with his son—I mean, my brother. Well, until now, I still couldn't believe the fact that I have a brother."She reminds me of Catherine, her mother," my father said, a smile on his face. "I remembered I once gave her a sun