“Hello, Ate Marga?”
Napaigtad ako at tinignan ang phone na hawak ko. “Y-Yes?”
“Did you forget that you’re talking to me? Ang tagal mong sumagot.” She giggled. “So, am I going to hear the wedding bells soon?”
Her teasing voice made me smile a little, but it slowly turned upside-down when I realized that I needed to tell her the truth. She asked me, and I didn’t want to lie to her. Puwede ko naman iyong sabihin sa kaniya, ano? I didn’t need Seatiel’s approval. We were both inside that relationship for two years, so I also had the right to speak about it.
Alam kong hindi ako nakikita ni Athena ngunit umiling ako. “I’m sorry to break it to you, Athena. But we already broke up.”
She gasped. It was deafening and clear. “W-What?”
It was like a bomb, like I said something she didn’t expect m
