This Can't Be Love

This Can’t Be Love ________________________ Summary: That mind bugging moment when you and the person you hated the most travel twenty years forward in time to find out you two end up marrying each other. But the problem will start when you two got back to the present. Dom and Sam decided to change the the future and forget everything they saw and felt, because who would want to Marry the person they hated the most? No one, and yeah, it totally sucks right? Except.... Maybe it doesn't. ________________________ Prologue: Twist of Fate   Samantha is on her third year in college, and for the last three years she's just pretending that Dominique does not exist in her life anymore. Four years is enough, but another four years? Or five? Nope. Not gonna happen.   Her phone rings that send her out of her thoughts, she pulled her phone out of her pocket and saw her best friend calling her.   "Besh?" Tanong ni Sam as she walk on her way sa dorm.   "Besh... Nasaan ka na? Susunduin daw tayo ni Dom..." sabi ni Ella.   "Huh? Besh ayaw ko ngang sumama, kung gusto mo ikaw na lang..." sabi ni Sam.   "Dali na!!!" Ella shouted on her phone. "Para namang di natin schoolmate si Topher nung highschool!"   "Can you hear what you're saying? Those two gave me hell... Wala akong utang na loob sakanila." Sabi ni Sam. "At may iba akong Christmas party na pupuntahan, Toni's family invited me..."   "Besh... Aso ka ba ni Anthony? Simula ng naging kayo buntot ka na ng buntot sakanya... Get a life!" Sigaw ni Ella and Sam was so shocked, but that's a bit true... Medyo... Medyo tama si Ella. "Please? Can you spend Christmas party with your bestfriend this time?"   "Okay okay... But Im gonna drive, hindi tayo sasabay kay Dom.." sabi ni Sam, because she can’t stand anywhere near that girl.   "Best alam mo ba yung Bar na sinasabi ni Topher? Hindi diba? Kaya bilisan mo na... baka dumating na si Dom..." sabi ni Ella and Sam nods as she held the phone in her ear.   Sam heard five consecutive honks and she's ready to break that car's window, then she saw Dom's car. Dom rolled her windows down and drive slowly. She wanted to break the car's window even more.   "Speaking of the Devil..." sabi ni Sam kay Ella. "Got to go.." Sam dropped the call looked at Dom.   "Sa dorm ka?" Tanong ni Dom as she talks to Sam through her car's window.   "Oo..." sabi ni Sam and she doesn’t have any damn to give right now.   "Hop in!" Sabi ni Dom and she opened the door on the passenger seat. But Sam opened the backseat door at dun umupo sa likod. Dom smiled, raised her brow and close the door she just opened. "Bakit di ka pa bihis?" Dom asked as she talks to Sam from her rear mirror.   "I dont have plans going, napilitan lang ako..." sabi ni Sam.   "Ang sungit mo!" Sabi ni Dom "Ayaw din kitang nakasakay dito no!"   "Good... Ayaw ko din." Sabi ni Sam and she rolled her eyes and Dom gave her car a nice drift kaya medyo na out of balance yung pagkakaupo ni Sam. "s**t naman Dom!!" Sabi ni Sam at hinampas niya si Dom.   "Aray naman!" Sabi ni Dom and she parked her car. As she turns the engine off Sam got out from her car and shut the door closed. "Dapat nilakasan mo! Ng matanggal na ng tuluyan!" Sigaw ni Dom sa naglalakad na si Sam pabalik sa dorm and she shakes her head. ________________________ THE PARTY   Pagpasok na pagpasok nila sa Bar it was filled of people who's already partying.   "Buti na lang di talaga sumama yung mga rookie... This?! Is an extreme party!" Sabi Ella. "In a good way by the way..."   "Christmas party ba tawag niyo dito?! Ang Christmas party na alam ko may exchange gift!" Sam shouted para marinig ni Ella and sumangayon naman si Ella sakanya   "Pwede ba?! Kailan ka ba lumabas sa kweba mo? Are you living under the rocks?! Nasa 20th century na tayo! Mukang nastuck ka sa panahon ng mga Nomad..." sabi ni Dom and Sam rolled her eyes at her   "Wow! Nagaaral ka pala! Akala ko kasi umakyat na yang bola sa utak mo at nawala na!" Sigaw ni Sam kay Dom.   "You wish!" Sabi ni Dom.   "Pwede ba?! Kayong dalawa tama na yan. Kung di kayo magkasundo maglayo na lang kayo!" Sabi ni Ella.   "THE PHENOM BECKONS IN THE HOUSE!!!! YEAH!!!" They heard from a far and its Topher shouting walking towards his bestfriend. "DOM!!! Wow!!!"   "I know Toph!!!! Nice party you got here buddy!!!" Sabi ni Dom and Sam and the rest of the team got their drinks from the waitress.   "Yeah nice party... My ears are hurting!" Sabi ni Sam.   "Come on guys! I know you can party hard!" Sabi ni Topher at inakbayan niya si Dom "Get lost bitches! Pahiram muna ng bestfriend ko!" Sabi ni Topher and he tugged Dom with him.   "Besh... Nice party" sabi ni Sam kay Ella.   "Sam masiyado ka namang nega diyan..." sabi ni Marge sakanya. "Come on, this isn’t that bad.."   "Kaya nga Besh... Magenjoy na lang tayo okay!?" Sabi ni Ella.   And everyone partied all night. Everyone in that bar got drunk...well except Sam who had zero f***s to give that night. She can be having a very quiet and peaceful christmas party in Anthony's house right now. But no, she's stuck here, in this hell hole, with drunk people around her.   Sam stood up and Ella looked at her.   "Im going home..." sabi ni Sam and Ella looked at her.   "What?! Ang aga pa!" Sabi ni Ella and she’s clearly drunk right now.   "I’m wasting my time here..." sabi ni Sam then she starts to squeeze in para makalabas, its pass midnight and the place is still crowded.   Dom saw Sam going out of the bar, this is the least thing she could do para makabawi kay Sam, she knows how she treated her before and she felt a BIT sorry. Dom followed Sam on tipsy. She saw Sam's out then she tries and walk fast. Nang makalabas na siya the cold air slapped her across the face, she hated December air, she hated cold weather.   "Sam poo poo wait!" Sigaw ni Dom and laugh sa sinabi niya.   "Oh no, you've gotta be kidding me!?" Sabi ni Sam at binilisan niya lalo paglalakad niya.   "Come on, Dude! Bakit aalis ka kaagad?!" Tanong ni Dom as she follwed Sam. Parang zombie si Dom na hinahabol si Sam, she's really drunk.   "Bakit ako aalis?! Baka abutin tayo ng bagong taon pagsinabi ko lahat ng dahilan ko!" Sabi ni Sam. "Get lost Domi-"   But Sam stopped when she saw a big truck coming towards them, and Dom saw the truck na walang balak tumigil, so she run towards Sam and tackled her. Dom held Sam as much as she can as they keep rolling on the ground and suddenly, she felt like their skin had been set on fire.   Dom look at Sam who's unconscious in her arms, nang makita niya yung lagay ni Sam nagpanic si Dom she couldn't breathe, her skin felt a tingling sensation all over and her hands and feet felt dead on the ends of her limbs. Dom starts to panic, she can’t feel anything her body's starting to get numb, she might lose her gripped on Sam's body.   And she was spinning, physically and mentally. Her brain lost its ability to control her body. Dom closed her eyes, she can’t see anything.   The burning, spinning and the pain stopped. Dom felt they just stop rolling on the road. She opened her eyes but she can’t recognized anything, everything is in blur. Her chest felt really heavy as she lay back flat on the floor... on a tiled floor?   Sam's breathing heavily and she opened her eyes. She was on top of Dom.   Dominique Valdez did not appreciate THAT at all, the way it felt to have Samantha Lazaro, one of the most intelligent and beautiful girl she'd ever seen in the (dis)pleasure of meeting, on top of her. No, she didn't like it one bit.   Not the way Sam's hips were perfectly against hers, the way their legs had intertwined, the way that Sam is heavy breathing caused their chests to meet on every inhale. She didn't appreciate it a bit.   What she did appreciate was the fact that her limbs are completely intact in her body, she felt no bruised or burning pain anymore.   Above her, Sam shifted to the side, so she was lying beside Dom instead of being on top of that girl. Eew.   "Ugh..." Sam said, her head still spinning.   "Okay ka lang?" Tinanong ni Dom si Sam ng makita niyang parang nahihilo pa si Sam.   "My head," sabi ni Sam as she rub her forehead "I think I might be concussed... Ugh"   "Just don't pass out or anything," Dom ordered in her normal bossy tone. Walang alam si Dom sa mga concussion na yan pero ang alam niya na napanuod niya sa mga movies is that if Sam fell asleep she could die. And sure, you can say that Dom found Sam really annoying most of the time, and she used to torture her in highschool, but she didn't want the girl to die or anything. She's still her teammate after all.   "Nasaan tayo? Nasaan sila?" Sam asked Dom and tries to open her right eye to look where the hell are they "Sure na sure ako na nabangga tayo, did we survive? Did we pass out? But if we fainted then surely someone would have called for an ambulance. Did you feel that weird burning?"   Dom wanted to snap at her, she really, honestly wanted to, she hated this very curious side of Sam, she might've slap her across her face, she wanted to but she didn't though, because they were incredibly valid questions.   Where the hell are we?   "Yes, I felt the burning," was all she said. It was the only answer she really had. Dom can’t form any words, this is their locker room, but how the hell they ended up here? She remembered saving Sam's life, that she kinda regret when Sam starts to opened her mouth but yeah... weird.   Sam looked around and saw the same thing that Dom saw, the room is definitely a locker room. They saw stash of volleyballs, lockers, benches.   "The room's different," Sam said.   "Seriously?! Yan agad naisip mo? Have you thought what the hell are we doing here? In a locker room? Sam we almost got hit by a truck!" Sabi ni Dom and she look around. "We're supposed to be on the side of the road right now..."   "And you're supposed to be really drunk..." sabi ni Sam.   "You're suppose to be really annoying... oh yeah you're still kinda is" sabi ni Dom and Sam shakes her head, this is isn’t going to work.   Sam whipped her head around in an almost frantic way, taking in the details of the room. After a minute she stood in wobbly legs. Dom followed her, though she was much more stable.   "Is this some elaborate prank? I swear to Einstein Dom I’m gonna punch you hard in the face!" Sam shouted out loud as she made her way to the stash of volleyballs. "Is this yours and Topher's Christmas present to me huh?"   "If it is, I'm thoroughly impressed," Dom replied. Then walk to the table with papers on top of it.   "Hmm... But honestly speaking, Topher would be more likely to take you with him and leave me to either die or be confused on my own" sabi ni Sam.   "Wow Samantha, that was morbid, bitter and overly dramatic all in one sentence. Congratulations, you've out done yourself... I almost thought I couldn't be more annoyed by you, but here you are opening your mouth... Brava!" Sabi ni Dom.   "No one likes me. Except for Anthony and Ella, and sometimes even them gets tired of me." Sam said. "Thank god books can’t run away from you, if they do? I'll be really alone"   Dom frowned. "Well, no one hates you anymore, well not much. Hindi naman na kita pinapakealaman minsan diba? Even Topher doesn't want to kill you all the time, he's just really jealous how intelligent you are and that boyfriend of yours pretty much wants to give you his first born. So that's...progress, right? I mean... Just stop being so bookworm and nerd you'll find friends..." sabi ni Dom.   Sam sighed heavily, and realized how much she isolated herself over the years from everybody because she wanted to have good grades in highschool and high GPA in college "Baka nga..." sabi ni Sam and she saw Dom doing something on the table. "Ano yan?"   "Line ups... Ateneo Lady Eagles lineup" Dom said staring at the paper. "But I dont recognized anyone on the list... like anyone."   "This is just weird." Sabi ni Sam.   Dom was about to agree, but she did so only mentally. Telling Samantha Lazaro that she was right would only lead to misfortune, and a lot of explanation... and nobody wants that.   Before they could speculate further, a tall boy maybe in highschool enters the locker room. Dom and Sam looked at the boy.   He was tall, but he's really young. Maybe he's just tall for his age. Highschool maybe?   Dom looked over to Sam, and yes just as what she thought.   He's good looking, but his body type isn’t flattering at all. He's tall but really thin, his black hair was pushed back and there's cute dimples in his cheek. He wore this thick rimmed black glasses.   "Hi," the boy said and Dom and Sam just stared at him. Sam can feel some sense of familiarity but she swears she hadn't saw the boy before. Weird.   "Hi..." Dom and Sam replied in unison. They glanced at each other and then looked back at the boy. He shifted on his feet.   "I’m Dylan..." he told them by way of explanation, as if his name would somehow inform them of his purpose in life. When he got blank stares in return he talks again "My mom is the coach?" He didn't miss the confused look they shot each other, he just didn't question it. Let them have their oddities, he reasoned. "Pinapakuha lang sa akin ni Mama yung lineup list? Nagpapractice yung team sa gym... You guys are in the team right?"   "Yes," Dom said quickly, before Sam opens her mouth and say something that could scare this little boy away. Hindi din alam ni Dom yung nagyayari but she's aware that she haven't seen this kid before and the kid is young and way too sincere to be in on a prank. "Bago lang kami sa team..."   "Muka nga..." sabi ni Dylan at naglakad siya papunta sa table to find the sheet on the pile of binders. "I've never seen you two before..."   "Did you just say that the Coach was a woman? Lady Eagles? Volleyball team?" Sam asked suddenly, Dom's head snapped around to face her, her wide eyes shining with anger. Sam ignored Dom beside her, but she knows that Dom's wishing her dead right now.   Dylan quirked an eyebrow and a smirk creep his face "Uhm, yeah, Dominique Valdez, I thought everyone knew that. She's like...one of the best coaches in this country. You guys are like...really new huh? Have you been living under rocks or something?" Dylan shook his head and chuckled when they didn't answer right away.   Habang hinahanap ni Dylan yung list nakatayo lang si Dom at Sam. Their jaw just drops and can’t form any words. Even Sam the blabber mouth can’t speak.   "Th... T-that was your son?" Sam stutters. This is so unussual, Sam stuttering and failed forming words.   "We're in the future."sabi ni Dom as they stare blankly at Dylan who's still minding his own business. It was stated as a fact, because though Sam was stunned, the reality around her wasn't up for debate in her mind.   This boy is clearly and undeniably Dominique's son, because they love and kept telling people are living under the rocks.   "No way..." Sabi ni Sam as she watch 'Dom's Son' doing his own thing, Dominique Valdez marries a nerd. Dylan isn’t really the athletic type didn't he? He wore glasses, he's thin and not very athletic looking. Sam laughs internally at Dom but still felt confuse as f**k.