Love you to death

“Aaahhh”! Mandy almost fell off her chair when her friend, Chanel, shouted out all of a sudden. “Leon’s messaged me out of the blue!” “How did that happen? After disappearing for a few months, he suddenly messages you like nothing’s happened. What a nerve!” “I don’t know. Maybe I should be angry with him, but when his name registered on my phone last night I felt nothing but happiness,”Chanel said. “Don’t be. That guy’s an i***t and an asshole. Don’t waste any more time on him. Remember all the times you just cried over him. He left you with nothing, no explanation, no reason, nothing!” Mandy exaggeratedly reminded Chanel. All of what Mandy said was true. Leon was her long-time boyfriend But a few months ago,he just disappeared like he had never existed at all. All of her friends told her that Leon ran away with somebody else, which she believed, since he just disappeared like a burst bubble. Now Chanel doesn’t know what to do, she’s having mixed emotions. She still loves Leon despite everything he’s done to her. “What does he want now, huh?” Mandy asked. “I’m not sure, but he wants to see and meet me in the place where we used to hang out. I don’t know what he’s up to,” Chanel said, undecided about what she should do. “That’s your decision to make. But if you were to ask me, I wouldn’t want you to meet that bastard,” Mandy continued spitting the words out through her gritted teeth Chanel fell into deep thoughts. She needed to decide either to meet Leon or not. Maybe she had to; she had a lot of questions to ask that guy that he had never answered. She needs to reconcile in her own mind, why he left her. When the day came that Chanel and Leon had agreed to meet, she couldn’t stop walking back and forth in her room. She’s ready to go, but she’s not that ready to face Leon for the very first time after he left her stranded. “So is your T-backiready?” Lee teased. Lee was her gay friend who kindly drove herto the place where she’s going to meet Leon. “What do you mean T-back?” she asked, while re-touching her make up in her compact mirror. “C’mon girl, it surely goes together with the backless dress you’re wearing? You ain’t gonna seduce Leon? And you’re doing your makeup one more time!? Don’t lie to me,” he said comically, making Chanel blush. “Yes, my beauty demands to be ravaged by a lover. But me and Leon we’re not like that anymore. Everything’s changed,” she said laconically. “Too bad. Your outfit says it all,” Lee gaily said “Any realman would want to ravage you on the spot!” “But I’m not losing hope, you know,” Chanel said in a serious tone. “Losing hope? About what? You and Leon?” Lee asked confusedly. “I’m not losing hope that I’m actually gonna use the T-back, at last, and it’s going to do the trick,” she giggled “You’re such a flirt, but that’s the spirit, friend,” Lee laughed with her. Leon de Magallanes is tall, thin, and pale. He is an imposing figure of a man of forty six years with black hair and dark eyes; he is considered handsome and attractive by women, but feared by men. He is very much a gentleman, well-dressed and well-mannered, which also endears him to women. Leon often wore black, which made his pale visage look even paler. He has a half-civilised ferocity about him that lurked in his eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was dignified; though he sometimes appeared stern and morose. He was reputed to be passionate about women, and of being a master of seduction and of having many lovers. However, Chanel rejected these claims, pointing out that Leon was in fact a well-read aristocrat who spent most of his time researching the plights of indigenous peoples in the Philippines, such as the Lumad peoples, the Blaan, the Bukidnon, the Higaonon, and others. Chanel arrived at the Cafe Adriatico in Malate, where she had agreed to meet Leon. A uniformed waitress quickly came to assist her. “Do you have a reservation ma’am?” The waitress almost sounded like she was some policeman interrogating her Perhaps she was envious of the provocative outfit Chanel was wearing. “Of course, I’m actually meeting with someone,” Chanel said staring the waitress down, as if she was some irritating snail. But she lost interest in the bothersome waitress, when she saw Leon waiting inside the restaurant.