Disclaimer: I do not own Slamdunk. I know that. This is just for formalities.. hehe.. Libre naman ang mangarap diba?


Coffeemaverick: hehehe… so that's why you haven't been updating your fics for a while… was wondering about that too… um… now I kinda feel sorry that I made you read stuff that as you go further along only gets more mysterious… hehehe… suspense is good… hehehe.. anyways… um… here's the last one… after this promise! Hehehe… no more of those… well after this… it's all going to be discovery and realization and you'll be like… so that's why.. hehehe.. I wrote this some time ago, but only found the spot to put it now…

Simmic: one of the questions you asked… well it was not a question… rather a statement… and blah.. right… it's in this chapter.. though I will not mention it right here, for it will spoil you the surprise… hehehe… read along… hehe..


Do You See Me?

I closed the door of my room, allowing my bag to slip from my grasp and land with a thud on the floor. I flopped directly to my bed, arms widespread, closing my eyes, thinking of a way to escape.

My phone vibrated in my pocket, and I jolted straight up, my right hand reaching inside my pocket, finding out the caller had been you.

"Hello?" You took a second to reply, then asked me to come to the nearby park. I glanced at my bag filled with books. "Karin? You there?" I counted my homework. But there was something wrong with his voice. "I promise it won't take long." There was something in your voice but I couldn't tell. "Ok. I'll be there." You thanked me, an unusual gesture. It was obvious there was something wrong – wrong with you.

I reached the park, found you sitting in the grass staring as the sun started to drown. I walked up to you quietly, though I think you already noticed my presence, and sat beside you, looking at you once, averting my eyes to the sun about to set.

It was halfway when I thought it was time you had said something. I grew uneasy, and I started to tap my fingers unconsciously. You began to speak. "So…" Inhale. Exhale. "I have this friend," That means you. "And he… he likes someone right?" I faced you now. "But he's her friend." Friend? I didn't want to hope, but half of me was hoping, half of me denying. "We're not really close." Almost all of me was dreading. "Ok. So we're not really close, as in, like us close." All of me was dying. You scratched your head, finally admitting that you were in fact, your "friend". "What should I do?" What should you do? Why ask me? When I have the same problem as you – with you particularly?

"Do I know her?" It was not the answer to your question as your eyes widened in surprise. "Ummm." Nevermind. I plastered a stick-it on your forehead. You ripped it off, quite disappointed of my previous actions for we seldom had serious talks like this.

"miluji tě." You read. "What does that mean?" You waited for an answer – my answer. "It means your stupid." You stood up, grabbed my pen and my stick-it from me and wrote something, then stuck it on my forehead. I took it off, 'miluji tě too.' "It means your stupid too." I know what it means. Sigh. I held a finger at your heart. "Listen. All you need to do is listen."

You ruffled my hair before I got up. "Thanks." I guess you're back to normal. I grabbed my bag and slowly walked out the park. I stopped, stood still. Tell me, am I stupid for saying 'I love you?'


Waa… at least I remembered to insert this part… I wrote it some time ago and I forgot about it, but I rediscovered it so here it is… and that miluji tě is Czech by the way… listen carefully… hehehe… neh… just want to ask… does this chapter confirm or support your guesses? Or not? hmm.. hehehe…