Wakas

"Are you sure about this?”

Binigyan niya ng malamig na tingin ang kanyang kasamahan. “Do I look like joking?”

Ngumisi lang ito sa kanya at binuksan ang selda ng kanyang kapatid na si Lucas. Bahagya siyang napangiwi sa amoy ng paligid. Well, the cell is clean, okay? It’s just that, it smells so lewd. Or maybe he’s not just used to this kind of place.

“What are you doing here? To tell me I’m the loser?” mahina ngunit nanunuyang sambit nito habang nakatingin sa kawalan.

Inayos ni Leon ang kanyang tayo. “Why did you do that?”

“Do what?” inosente nitong tanong at bumaling sa kanya. “Oh, you mean, surrendering myself? Submitting myself to the authorities and locking myself in this kind of dummy place?”

Hindi siya umimik at muling naglibot ng tingin. May isang kama at mayroon ding isang unan at kumot, ngunit bukod doon, wala na. This is literally a jail. Nakaupo si Lucas sa malamig na sahig at nakatitig sa pader ng kanyang silid.

“Because I love her.”

Nakatitig lang siya rito. He was