Wyatt's Point of View

I scoffed; I couldn't believe what she said. "You think that reason is valid? You're selfish, Agleen!"

"Alright, let's say I'm selfish because of what I did," she uttered before looking straight into my eyes. "You? Did you really love him? Aren't you selfish too? You chose to hurt him to save yourself from the shame that you yourself started."

I fucking know that! So, why? Why does she have to mention that and tell me face-to-face that I did something wrong? Fuck it!

"That wouldn't happen if it's not because of you." I gritted my teeth. "All of the conflicts that were happening to me were all because of you! If you haven't come back... You shouldn't have come back, Agleen!"

Her lips trembled, and she couldn't utter any words. She stayed there with her mouth shut while her tears continued to come out. And I also stayed there, clenching my fist while looking at her. I don't feel any pity. All I could feel was the anger in my chest.

"Wyatt!"

I heard Jacob scream my name, but I didn't look back. But thanks to him, I started to notice the students around me and Agleen.

Fuck.

What is this? Have they been here before? I didn't even notice. When I moved my eyes to the crowd, I saw some people muttering; others had no clue what we were talking about; and others were obviously sorry for Agleen's crying.

By the way, we are in the hallway, so we can really get the students' attention. Particularly now that other students are on break time, but Agleen's section is not among them.

"Shit!" Jacob rushed to my side. He even held my shoulder while catching his breath. "Let's go. Fuck. What are you doing among these people? Are you shooting a drama or something?"

"We've been looking for you for a while," said Yuan, who was already next to me.

"Come on, we're done talking," I said. I was about to turn around when I felt Agleen's hand on my arm. I turned to her and violently removed her hand from my arm. "Don't you fucking touch me," I said with emphasis before completely turning away from her.

"Wyatt, please! Don't do this to me, Wyatt!" She shouted that repeatedly, but I did not look back at her again.

I just continued to walk with my two friends. I don't know where Hans is. Maybe he is still on the rooftop.

I sighed.

Yuan caressed my back, probably heard my heavy sigh. "Have you taken all your anger out on her yet?" He asked.

"I don't know," I shook my head and held my breath again. "I want to see Aiden, but I don't know where he is in California."

"You now know the mistake you made? Now that he's gone, you even thought of looking for him," Jacob said, shaking his head.

"Hans was very disappointed. You know how supportive he was of your relationship with Aiden. Did you really hurt him to save your ego?" Yuan asked.

I shook my head and gave him an honest answer. "I don't care what anyone says, but... I don't want to disappoint my parents, especially my grandfather."

"You don't want to disappoint them, but why do you want to see Aiden now?" Jacob asked, turning his head to me.

"They said that they already knew about our relationship. They even asked me why we broke up. If I just found out about it sooner, I wouldn't lose Aiden." I answered.

"No," Yuan disagreed. "Even if they didn't know or even if they don't agree with your relationship with Aiden, you shouldn't hurt him that way. If you really loved him, you wouldn't care about your family. Be disappointed or not, you should have fought for him."

"No, you don't understand me. When it comes to my family, you know that's a different matter, Yuan."

He looked at me, smirking. "Am I really wrong? Or you just can't sustain your decision. If you really don't want to disappoint your family, then why did you start it in the first place? For what? For your own amazement? You should know what you did wrong, Wyatt. You should stop making excuses; you're just fooling yourself."

Jacob sighed and patted my back. "It's okay. You know we're always here for you. We don't blame you for everything that happened, we just want to say that we hope you were more honest about your feelings back then, so that you don't have any regrets now."

I nodded. "I know... Even if you say it's not all my fault, I know it's still my fault. Even if Agleen did that, if my feelings for Aiden were stronger, I wouldn't be able to do that. I mean, yeah, I love him, but I was a coward. I'm too weak to fight for him."

"So, you know what you have done. That's enough, then." Yuan muttered. "Now, you should decide what to do. Fly to California or wait for him until he comes back, that's if you both still have feelings for each other," he shrugged.

"I'll wait." I smiled. "I want to fly there, but I don't want to force him after what I did. I'll wait until he heals. I'll make him fall in love with me again. However, this time, I will not let go of his hand."

They smiled at what I said.

"That's good then, asshole." Jacob chuckled and locked my head under his armpit.

"Argh! Let go of me!"

Yuan laughed and said, "Hans was waiting. Let's hurry."

I hope that when the time comes for him to come back, it's still possible for the two of us.

Don't find anyone else, Aiden, please. You love me, right? So, don't fall in love with somebody else. You can do it, can't you? I'll wait until you come home. I'll wait so you can take your time there.

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It has been, what? 6 years? Yeah, it's been six years, but I haven't heard about Aiden yet. Damn it. Is he planning to stay there for the rest of his life? Then, what about me? Did he completely forget about me? Damn, I think I'm going crazy.

I covered my eyes with my arms. This sunlight is blinding. Well, I'm just lying down in the cradle. I have work today, but I don't feel like going.

This is me every day. I will lie here and think of Aiden until I get too lazy to work.

I will be honest. My life is so boring that I think of dying. But every time I thought of that, Aiden would always pop up in my mind. And so, I couldn't go on. Also, I don't want to die before my grandfather. I want to see him happier. I know that he is also waiting for Aiden to come back because he always asks me about him. He stopped asking me to get a girlfriend, too, maybe because he knew that I was still into Aiden.

A lot has happened in six years, including my forgiveness for what Agleen did. Well, what else is it for if I still carry the anger I have with her? I'm not going to improve, I might end up disfigured in time, and Aiden won't like me when he comes back.

Ah, right. Yuan is married, and guess with whom? It's Vanessa. Yes, my old crush. I didn't feel bad when I found out that he was dating her when we were in our 4th year of college. In fact, I was even happy for both of them. I'm happy with what I have now, even though all I do is wait for Aiden every day. Also, my heart already belongs to someone else, so why should I care about them?

I'm happy that they found someone who will make them happy. And look at them now; they are a married couple. They don't have children yet because they have only been married for five months. Vanessa has no plans to have children yet.

Jacob had a boyfriend. Yes, boyfriend! That womanizing man had a boyfriend. He said he didn't really mean to fall in love with him. He said he just tried to enter a gay bar to find out what it feels like to be there. Until a cute guy came up to him and had a drink with him until they were able to go to the hotel. Maybe he was drunk, so he agreed. There have been several times that something happened to them because, after that night, Jacob returned there again, and because something happened to them over and over again, it seems that's when he started to have feelings for the man.

Of course, at first we laughed at him and didn't believe him, but because of the seriousness on his face, we couldn't do anything but believe him. Then, after two weeks, he introduced the man to us. I didn't disagree that he was cute because he really is. We were in our fourth year of college at the time, but his boyfriend seemed to be in high school. He said he really looked like a high school student, but he was in his first year of college.

Yuan and Jacob already have a love life, while Hans doesn't yet. I don't want to think that the reason he doesn't have a girlfriend yet is because he is waiting for Aiden. I don't really want to think that, but I can't help it. Damn it. I still remembered how I used to be jealous of him whenever he was clinging to Aiden. Well, I just wish he didn't really waited for Aiden, because I don't know what will happen if what I was thinking is true.

"Sir, I need you in the office." My secretary interrupted me in the middle of my thoughts.

I removed the arm that was covering my eyes before turning to her. "Give me 5 minutes."

"But, sir—"

"But, what? Is there anything else you want to say?"

She shook her head and said, "None, sir. Then I'll leave you here, but come out when five minutes are over."

"Yeah, yeah, just go," I commanded while swinging my hand, gesturing for her to go away. It's a good thing she did it right away.

I heaved a sigh.

This secretary of mine obviously has a crush on me. How could I not notice? Every time I look at her, her cheeks become red. Well, what can I do? Because I'm so handsome, it's very unlikely that anyone would not like me. Sigh. I feel sorry for the people who have a crush on me, they don't have any hope because I'm already in love with someone.

I smiled when I thought of Aiden.

Damn, I really want to see him again. Should I fly to California now? I now have my own money, so I don't have to ask my parents for it. Aisha. But I promised to wait, though. Damn it! If only I had known that it would take him this long to stay there, I wish I would have flown away already.

I missed him so fucking badly.

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Aiden's Point of View

I missed the smell of the Philippines. Welcome home, Aiden!

I smiled as I walked with my luggage. I stopped walking and raised my palm to wave when I saw Regie. He was still holding a banner. I couldn't help but laugh.

We kept our contacts updated while I was away, so he knew that I was coming home. He didn't bring anyone with him, huh? Well, it's not that I'm expecting a certain someone to welcome me. I blocked him from all my social media accounts and from my contacts; that's why there's no way we could contact each other. And there's no way he would know of my return because I know that Regie would never tell him.

I hugged Regie as soon as I got closer to him.

"Welcome back," he murmured.

I smiled and said, "Thank you, Reg."