Chapter 44: 43

Joker And The Queen (Epistolary) ✔️Words: 3404

Robertson Ford

06-19 06:02 AM

Robert:

Magandang umaga!

06:30 AM

Julian:

I'm resigning

Robert:

Salamat naman

Julian:

Masaya ka pa talaga

Robert:

Slight lang

Julian:

Robert

Did you

Did Mika enter my room?

Robert:

Sa theater lang ata?

Hindi ko alam

Julian:

But you did

I woke up in my room. Why?

Robert:

Binuhat kita

Masakit sa likod makatulog sa couch. Baka mahulog ka din

Julian:

Oh

Okay

I just lost something

Did you get something in ny room?

Robert:

Parang wala naman

Julian:

You also didn't see something?

Baka pumasok si Mika

Robert:

Ano ba yon?

Kagigising mo lang

Julian:

I need to see it first thing in

the morning

Hindi mo talaga nakita?

Robert:

Ano nga muna 'yon?

Malay mo nakita ko

Julian:

Nothing you didn't see it

Robert:

Talaga?

Julian:

Are you fr?

Robert:

De joke lang

May nakita ako

Julian:

You took it?

What did you see?

Robert:

Bags mo

Di ko hinawakan

Julian:

It's fine

Hindi bag

Robert:

Alin nga yon?

Julian:

It's just a phone

Robert:

Cellphone mo?

Julian:

Yes

Did you not really see it?

Robert:

Ano kulay?

Julian:

You have it.

Robert:

Yes

Julian:

Fuck

It's not what you think it is

Istg

Robert:

Hmm?

Julian:

But you really have it, right?

It's important to me. More important

than my bags so just don't get rid of it

Don't lose it

Robert:

Babalik ko naman sayo ah

Julian:

Did you open it?

Are you mad?

Robert:

Hindi ako galit

Na-unlock ko yung phone pero wala akong binuksan na apps

Julian:

Okay

That's good

Don't open anything

Can you give it back?

Robert:

Why didn't you tell me?

Julian:

Tell what?

Robert:

That you like me for a long time now

Julian:

Why would I tell you?

Robert:

Queens don't confess?

Julian:

Queens know their place.

You were taken that time tapos you

were broken for years

Take note, OBVIOUSLY broken

Robert:

Ikaw yung sa bar?

Yung nagchat sa twitter?

Julian:

Yes

Robert:

How did it start?

Julian:

Long ago, I noticed Kuya Max always looking at Mika and you're always with Kuya Max, so I saw you.

It was just a happy crush until I was 12th grade when you saw me alone at the party and talked to me just to give me company.

I don't know. It was effortlessly done because obviously, you were still taken and you were just saying jokes, asking if I feel fine.

You thought I was sick in the end because I was red. I wasn't sick, I was flattered.

Robert:

Wala akong masabi

Ang tagal

Para kang si Max

Julian:

That's why we get along well

He knows what exactly I'm feeling when I'm telling him how frustrated I was that you keep on ignoring me or not seeing me as a woman

Robert:

Kasi ang bata mo pa naman talaga

noong nakikita kita

Julian:

Duh

I'm 23 now, do I still look young?

Robert:

Shempre hindi na, kaya nga nalalandi kita eh

Julian:

Stopp

Robert:

Aasarin pa naman sana kita tungkol sa cellphone, hindi ko na magawa ngayon

Pupuntahan kita mamaya, babalik ko na.

Julian:

You can unlock it if you want to

Robert:

Talaga?

Julian:

Yes

Robert:

Hindi mamaya nalang kapag kasama na kita para may way ako para asarin ka

Julian:

As if you can do that

You have work today

Robert:

Hindi ako papasok

Julian:

Bawal ka mag-absent!

Robert

Lagi nga akong absent eh sanay na sila, madalas sa laptop lang ako nagttrabaho parang si Connor

Pumapasok lang naman ko noong nakaraang linggo dahil sayo

Julian:

Weirdooo

Robert:

Alam mo kung sino satin yung mas weird, wag mo na simulan

Julian:

Just go here

Robert:

Excited yarn

Julian:

Edi wag nalang

Robert:

Papunta na nga amp

Julian:

Duh