three

this story is about two friends of mine…this is actually a combination of their stories…their stories are so much alike i decided to make it as one…but naturally i used the itango-na-lang-natin-sila-sa-pangalang style…so here it goes…itago na lang natin sila sa pangalang zean, jennie and kristof…..this still has no ending yet…

three
by pinakbet

i am working in an events management agency here in ortigas….i transferred to this company just a few months back….barely two weeks after joining this group i was given a major assignment already….it was a big project from one of our major accounts….two weeks into the project, a new member was added to our team…she wasn’t actually an employee…she was just there for ojt….man! she was good…she’s really like a pro…to top it all, she was beautiful and her personality is so okay everybody in our team liked her in an instant….her name is jennie, by the way….ow..i forgot…i’m zean….jennie and i became lunch and dinner buddies…well i’d like to think were buddies…because we always eat lunch and dinner together…okay, okay….most of the time we out together with our teammates….but there are also quite a lot of times when we’re alone…to tell you honestly we really became close…she would tell me her concerns…i would tell her mine…sometimes we’d even share a stick of marl gold when the manangs outside our building are already gone especially at night…she has invited me to her house already…i’m about to invite her to my house too…..we really are close….believe me….i know so many things about her as if we grew up together

when i thought everything’s going fine between the two us, an unexpected thing happened…two weeks before the start of the event, the guys and girls we recruited as ushers and usherettes/tour guides for the foreign delegates joined us for training…they all look great…that is actually one of the qualifications for them to be part of the team…most of them are either ramp or print ad models…we even have a few who’ve at one point or another been seen in tvcs……anyway, jennie took a liking for one of the guys we hired…his name is kristof…kristof was kinda okay coz he’s respectful and not mayabang…the only thing i don’t like about him is that jennie likes him…hay…jennie drools (figuratively…and sometimes literally) whenever she sees him…she tells me how cute his smile is…how mesmerizing his eyes are…how fresh his breath is…how yummy he looks….yummy?...what a way to describe a guy…..when she said that i agreed…coz i think he looks like yummy isaw…haha…bitter….i mean she tells me everything she sees in the guy…everything she feels for or about the guy….how can she be so insensitive… can she not see that i get really irritated or depressed when she tells me those things?…and to top it all, she always makes it a point that i see them when they are together…huh!....the nerve…..this happens quite often that her time spent with me has been lessened…well, its not that she doesn’t wanna join me for lunch or anything…she still invites me to join her…its just that i refuse every time she invites me while they’re together…i’ve actually run out of excuses already for the many times they’ve invited me…

then a few days after the event ended, our team decided to celebrate our success…we went to puerto galera….it would have been nice had kristof not joined us…but well, he is part of the team so he joined…by this time jennie is really like a leech clinging to kristof like there is no tomorrow….i really hate seeing them together…grrrr…..and by this time also, she doesn’t invite me anymore to join them….i think they’re already an item…..before, she would allow me to borrow her phone and read her messages….now, she refuses to….maybe they have secrets….and she lies to me….on our second day on the beach, i woke up early to invite her to walk along the beach before the sun rises...to my surprise she was no longer in her room….so i walked around the resort in search for her…shiszs…i shouldn’t have done that…i was hurt coz i saw them together talking sweetly to each other in one of fishing boats docked on the shore….its good they didn’t see me coz i was really fuming mad….when i saw her lunch time i pretended i didn’t know where she spent the morning and just asked where she’s been…she said she went with the girls to the adjacent resort…..(do i look dumb….well, maybe i do)…..but how could she lie to me…we’re friends….we used to be friends…i used to be that someone who knows everything that’s happening to her…..whatever happened to us….(zean, there is…or was….no us)….(there will never be us i guess)……

now i don’t know what’s happening to the two of us….we still see and talk to each other in the office….i’m trying to pretend that everything is fine….but we don’t get to do what we used to do coz more often than not, kristof drops by the office during break time…its good the project is over he is no longer part of our team….otherwise i would see them together more often….but the sad thing about this is that her ojt will also be ending also….i know we’ll still communicate through text or e-mails….but i doubt it if we'll still be as close as before….i hope…….but i doubt it…..but who knows……maybe i should also go to the gym to firm up my muscles…..or maybe inject gallons and gallons of glutathione to make make my skin smoother…or maybe go to vicky for a nose-job….hay……