“Ang dami dami mong chance para sabihin sa akin ‘yung totoo pero hindi mo ginawa!”
“Aiah—”
“Ten years, Mikha. We’ve been best friends for ten years. And in all those years, not once did you say anything!”
“‘Yun na nga, Aiah eh! Kaibigan mo ako. Kaibigan mo lang ako…”
“Don’t use that as an excuse! Being my best friend doesn’t explain all those years of silence. I deserved to know!”
“That’s not an excuse.”
“Then what do you call ten years of pretending nothing was wrong?”
“Surviving.”
“Surviving?”
“I was scared. I was terrified of losing you. That if I told you, you’d pull away. That you’d stop calling me when your head hurts, stop telling me first when something good happens. I was scared of losing the ‘us’ that we had.”
“You assumed the worst, Mikha.”
“Kasi kilala kita, Aiah. When you don't want something, you run. And I couldn't bear not seeing you every day. I couldn't bear being the reason you disappear from my life.”
“Bakit ngayon pa? Bakit ngayon lang, kung kailan ikakasal na ako?”
“Because now I realize I had nothing left to lose. I already lost you before I even spoke. I’m no longer the first person you call. I’m no longer the first person you tell. You were slipping away, piece by piece, and I didn’t even notice.”
aray mo.