Break na tay0. I fuckd sum1 else.
It was late, but Drew knew that the moment his girlfriend receives the message, she would call. As expected, his phone rang. He rejected it.
Talk to me. Was the message he received afterwards. He sighed. He betrayed her.
I dnt want to t0k. He replied.
You are breaking up with me, the least you can do is tell me that and not just text me. She was right, as usual, she was right.
The phone rang again, this time he accepted it. “Baby?”
He merely mumbled, not knowing what to say to the girl who has stood by his side for more than a year.
“What happened?” She sounded so calm when she asked. Just her usual self, calm. Patient, always patient with him.
“I fucked someone else.”
He heard her take a deep breath. He could imagine her closing her eyes, gathering her thoughts, drawing strength somewhere within herself. He knew the things running through her mind. He knew she was silently praying it wasn’t his ex he slept with. The ex who tried everything she could think of to break them up.
“It was a Korean.”
“A what?” Disbelief was in her voice.
“A Korean.”
“Oh.” A pause, a very long pause. Drew could picture her trying hard not to cry. She knew she could get away with crying, knew he would do anything for her if she cried. When she realized the power of her tears, she stopped crying in front of him.
“I don’t love her.” He blurted. “I’m sorry.”
“What happened?” Silence. “Baby?”
How could she still call him that? How could she remain so calm while Drew was beside himself with guilt? Drew sighed again. What happened? was the question he was trying to answer himself.
It was just a group study. It was the week before the midterms and he joined his friends after school to study. After a couple of hours of staring at the same page and teasing one another, they decided to stop being hypocrites and call it a night.
They were about to leave the campus in Drew’s car when Mark asked if Drew could drop him off at the KTV bar a few blocks away. Drew started to say no, ready to remind his friends that they still need to study but Mark cut him off.
“Yan ba epekto ng girlfriend mo sa ‘yo? Masyado ka na seryoso ngayon, p’re!”
His friends laughed. They enjoyed teasing him, not because they didn’t like his girlfriend personally, but they saw her as the reason why Drew stopped being the playboy he used to be. Slightly annoyed, Drew just gave in.
When they reached the KTV bar, Mark invited them to join him. “I’ll introduce you to my girlfriend.”
Steve and Kevin roared. Mark has a girlfriend? Even Drew had to laugh. Mark was the resident clown at school. His grades were forgettable, his way with the girls almost always caused trouble. But whatever Mark lacked in the looks department, his parents’ money made up for. It was intriguing.
All four went inside the bar. They could hear people singing off-key. The smell of cigarettes and beer hung in the air. They went up to the second floor where the more expensive rooms were. They went down the hall and Mark knocked on the last door.
Inside the room were five Korean girls. Skinny and flawless girls in super short skirts. They looked flushed, and their moves were jerky. Drew glanced around, empty bottles of beer were scattered everywhere. For a moment, the image of his girlfriend flashed before his eyes. Drunk girls meant trouble, that’s what he told her when he told her to stop drinking.
Mark introduced them to his girlfriend, a petite one with a bright yellow shirt and black denim skirt. The other girls were giggling and talking animatedly in their native tongue, so loudly that Drew didn’t catch the girlfriend’s name. He shook her hand politely and was about to say goodbye when Kevin and Steve pushed him inside and forced him to sit down. One of the girls handed him a beer and sat next to him.
Steve then entered some numbers and music filled the room. It was some song in a foreign language. Alright, just one bottle, Drew thought to himself. He drank and almost gagged when he felt the girl’s hand on his lower back. He looked at her, she was smiling. He looked at his friends. Mark was at the corner, his girlfriend on his lap. Kevin was flirting with two of the girls who couldn’t seem to stop giggling, while Steve was already caressing the smooth thigh of another.
The music changed. Careless Whisper. All the guys groaned, it was the music they always hear when they pass by the gay bar when they go to one of the bars in the area. Steve stood up and started dancing, teasing the girl he was with. Steve was like a pole swaying, his dancing skills so bad, it was just ridiculous to watch him. Laughter filled the room and the next song was just an instrumental with sax. The lights dimmed and one of the girls joined Steve in dancing. She went up to Steve and placed her small hands on the now bare chest of Drew’s friend and the two of them swayed. Steve pulled the girl closer to him and Drew saw him reach for the girl’s butt. She didn’t mind, she actually smiled.
Drew felt something warm and wet on his ear. He looked at the girl next to him. She reached up for a kiss but he turned away. His eyes fell on Kevin, now kissing one of the girls while the other was rubbing her palm on his bulging front.
The girl next to him stood up and knelt between his parted thighs. Before he could ask her to get up, her hands were already unbuckling his belt. He tried to stop her but within seconds, she managed to open his pants. She then opened her blouse and revealed small perky breasts, her nipples very erect. She licked one finger and rubbed it against her right nipple while her other hand started rubbing Drew’s cock. He tried to remove her hand but the girl just ignored him. She took his cock out and began sucking it. Drew closed his eyes.
He felt her lips moving up and down his shaft. He wanted her to stop and go on at the same time. He felt her tongue licking his head before taking his cock inside her mouth again. He heard her make gagging sounds. Shit. He thought, it has been so long.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Kevin with the two girls, right across him. One was busy sucking his cock while the other was moaning while Kevin sucked her breasts and fingered her. Her legs were parted very wide and Drew could see his friend’s hand pleasing her. Is this really happening?
Drew felt the girl stand up. She hiked up her skirt and stood on the couch. She slipped her skimpy panty down and tried to press her pussy to his mouth. But he was not in the mood to play, he wanted to fuck. He grabbed her and was about to position her on the couch when he felt someone hug him from behind. Steve’s girl was on him and Steve was on the Korean Drew was supposed to fuck.
Next to him on the couch, the girl started moaning as Steve ate her pussy. The new girl with Drew didn’t waste time. Seeing his hard cock, she sat on him and started grinding, her arms wrapped around his neck. She started kissing his neck and Drew started playing with her breasts, her hard nipples against his palms. He squeezed them and it made her start going up and down his cock.
“Did you enjoy it?” His girlfriend’s voice cut his story short. Did he enjoy it?
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Ang gaan eh!” He blurted out.
To his amazement, his girlfriend started laughing. He frowned. How could she just laugh?
“You’re crazy. I fucked someone else and you’re just
Drew was getting angry, with himself, with his girlfriend. He expected her to cry. He expected her to shove to his face how loyal she had been despite their distance. He expected her to make him feel how irresponsible and stupid he was. He didn’t expect her to laugh.
“I’m hanging up now.”
“Drew,” she said.
“What?”
“It wasn’t your fault. “
“I promised you there would be no one else. I broke my promise. You should hate me.”
“I don’t hate you. Yes, you could have avoided it. Yes, you could have gone home instead of staying there, you could have stopped her,” she began. “You gave in to your friends. You gave in to the lust. You were just being human.”
“But, I hurt you, ‘di ba?”
“Yes, baby. But I’m not going to lose you just because some drunk and horny Korean flirted with you and you gave in.”
“How can you forgive me so easily?”
He expected her to simply say I love you, expected her to blindly cling to the idea of love as the reason why she is letting him off the hook that easily.
“You make mistakes. You’re humble enough to admit you were wrong. That is what’s important.”
Drew didn’t know what to say.
“Just don’t do it again. Please.”
Had she been with him, he would have hugged her. He would have let his tight embrace tell her what words failed to do.