Basket of Keen

Chapter 1

"Hi I'm Paisley"

Ah same memorise keep coming back again, maybe I should get going now.

"Tita Z!" masayang bati sa akin ni Skylar nang lumabas ako ng aking kwarto.

Napaupo ako para lumebel sa kanyang mga mata, ngumiti ako sa kanya. Skylar is the daughter of Shane, she is so lovely and sweet, that made my day.

"Good morning Skylar." I greeted her as I tap her head.

She smile to me sweetly as I raise and as her to hold my hand and she accepted it. We walk down to the stairs.

"Where is Sadie?" I ask her and she give me a long pause.

Sadie is her twin brother. Not like Skylar, Sadie is an introverted child.

"On his room I guess." She sweetly answered and I nod to her.

It's been years when all of my friends settled with marriage and her I am going to 30's doesn't know the real meaning of commitment. Shane is happily married as well as Viyara, I wonder if Dalaney is still alive will she also happy right now? I wonder what happened to Xiana after Dalaney passed away? How I really miss the old times when we were still young. I wonder how was my other friends going, they seems to be married also by this time and enjoying the phosphorous life of married life.

"Z, you should go with someone for a while. All of our friends are already married or going to married, and here you are stock being a good for nothing single woman." Shane said while she was leaning on my desk.

I just silly look at her.

"Aren't you going to set me on a blind date, aren't you?" I bluntly said to her and I saw her shock emotion. I gasp at her. "Besides, I'm not into commitment though. I don't see myself being with someone, I hate responsibilities and I hat—never mind." I said to her.

Pity shows on her face as she holds my hand to share her comport to me. I gasps and remove her hand on me.

"Don't give me that face, it sucks me." I said to her.

"You still have months to go before go back, aren't you?" she ask.

I look at my table thinking that she was right. I only have a few more months to be free, time really flies so fast. I look at her and fake my smiles on her.

"Am I? Is it really important to mind? Why not we spend my months being happy and forget the reality of this world?" I ask her and she just look at me, "besides, I have no responsibilities to worry about therefore it would be alright." I said to her and smile.

It is hard to show my true emotions to her, I can't help to see her getting worried about me. I am an adult now; I am not her responsibilities in the first place even though we treat each others as family.

She's about to say something when someone came in to my shop, we both look at the door and we saw a two familiar person.

What are they doing here?

It is been years since the last time I saw her; she's still gorgeous as ever. Those hooded shaped eyes, which used to look at me before, the brown eyes that spark on me every time she smiles to me. Her rich rages lip that gives a sweet smile to me and that mole bellow her left eye. How I wish looking at her since back then, but what is she doing here right now?

"Z! Oh my gosh I miss you, I thought I wouldn't see you for decades." She screams while rushing towards me.

I was pinned on my chair when she run to me and hug me so tightly. I don't know what to do; I don't know what to say. I was so shocked, is this for real, does the woman I loved is in front of me?

My hand slowly embrace her but it was too late to embrace her when she released her hug towards me. I look at her, she never change at all, she's still the Paisley back then but she's more beautiful and matured right now. It's been a decade or more I guessed since the last time we saw each others.

"Hey Z, didn't you miss me?" she ask and I smile at her.

Yeah right, she was the one who gave that nickname though.

"Of course I missed you, it's been a decade, aren't it?" I ask her and she smile. Those smiles never change at all. "What comes you here? And I forgot to greet you Wills." I said to them as I greeted Wills.

Wills nod at me as a response. Wills is our childhood best friend; these two were my first friends when I was child. Wills and I go together in college and now he's a successful cardiologist, while Paisley is currently a pedia-dentist.

"It is because we wanted to ask you if you can be my maid of honor for my wedding three months from now, you know you were my first best friend and we made a promise before—" wait didn't she said she's getting married, aren't she? I look at Wills, is she going to marry Wills? I know they had a relationship but I didn't expect this to happened. "—so will you be my maid of honor, Z?" she said.

Is she saying something? I bet it wasn't really important though, but I haven't had a chance to confess my feelings to her—ah I understand.

"Of course." I answered.

We had small talks yet they left afterwards. My legs collapse after they left; I sit on my seat and took a deep close of my eyes.

Who am I to confess in the first place? I am just her childhood best friend; I am a sister for her and not a lover. Why would I expect that she will look back to me the way I look at her? Seeing her a while ago, how she look at Wills, it made me understand how she's so happy to marry him. I am not selfish to ruin her life, maybe things should remain as this.

I felt something slit on my eyes, I slowly open my eyes and touch my cheeks and I found it wet. I was shock when I felt it.

"A tear? Am I in pain?" I shock ask myself, I laugh as I lean on my chair, "how ridiculous." I sigh and close my eyes again.

How cruel life was.