Party Girl Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Sleeping Together

“Kevin? Are you with Magic? He’s not answering his phone,” Andy asked Kevin on the cell phone.

“He’s with Shayla. Andy, he’s getting back at us, I know it, and he’s using her,”

Andy, on the other line, couldn’t speak. She knew what she did. She knew it was wrong. Kevin was so seductive. He’s so hot. I had problems when it happened. I didn’t mean it. Everything happened so fast. I couldn’t control the situation. He was there, sitting by the bar, and I was devastated enough to talk to him about his best friend. I was comfortable with Kevin, and that was a one-time thing.  I thought Magic would understand and forget about it, thought Andy.

“Andy, are you there? Didn’t you hear what I said?”

She realized that Kevin was still on the other line. “Oh, I’m sorry Kev, I’m sure he’s not. They’re friends naman eh, ok lang ‘yun,”

“Are you sure? I thought…”

“Positive,” although Andy was really worried that Magic could do it, she didn’t want Kevin to know.

Back at Shayla’s home, the party seemed to be still on. After their drive thru meal, Magic and Shayla opened up a bottle of vodka and mixed it with iced tea.

“So, spill!” Shayla demanded

Magic felt uncomfortable about it. But she agreed to tell it to Shayla. “I went to the US last year ‘di ba,” Shayla nodded “that’s the same time Kevin went back here, he and Andy were hanging out a lot. I didn’t mind because, you know, he’s my best friend since we were kids. Tapos when I got home from the US, I went straight to Andy’s house to surprise her. There was already a feeling when got to her doorstep, parang something’s wrong but I can’t understand why, then I caught them.” Suddenly, Magic eyes started filling up with tears, but Shayla knew that he was fighting them to fall down. “I was devastated pero ‘di ko sinabi. The next day, Andy went to my place to apologize. I told her it was ok, that she probably just missed me… Shayla, alam ko dapat naging honest ako, but I want to forget all about it…”

“Magic…” Shayla found herself hugging him. It was the best way to comfort someone who was hurting. When she pulled herself away from Magic, she saw the tears fell down his cheek. She didn’t know she loved Andy so much. She thought that they were just playing around because he hadn’t mention Andy that much in any of their conversations, or to anybody in particular.

“But why did you even tell Kevin about me, sabi mo ayaw mo siya para sa’kin diba? ” Shayla wondered.

Magic wiped the tears off his face. “I didn’t. When he asked who you were, I just told him your name and parati kang nasa Emba, other than that, wala na.”

“Ah ganun… O, ubusin mo na yan,” pointing to the last glass of the vodka iced tea, “last na ‘yan,”

Hannah was still sleeping that afternoon when someone opened the lights of her room. She tried to ignore it, it was probably just their maid.

“HANNAH! WAKE UP! I HAVE DIRT!”

It wasn’t their maid. Shayla went right away to Hannah’s place after she dropped Magic at his condo. Too sleepy to get up, Hannah threw Shayla a pillow and went back to sleep.

“Hannah! Listen, I knew what Kevin’s forget-I-said-anything crap, wake up. Oh, you wouldn’t believe this. Magic caught him and Andy partying,”

As if an airplane was about to crash at the top of her bed, Hannah suddenly got up.

“See, I thought that would wake you,” Shayla said, smiling.

“Are you serious? Andy and your American hunk chu chu? What do they see in her, ‘di naman siya maganda. Where did you hear this from? Reliable source ba ha? Saka natulog ka na ba? What time is it? You even had the nerve to go here, hello---”

Shayla covered her mouth. “Magic told me. Kanina, ‘di ba sumabay siya sa ‘kin? He spilled all of it.”

Hannah suddenly got her phone and started dialing.

“What are you doing?” Shayla asked, confused.

“Calling Ria, she needs to know this. Goodness, I thought you wouldn’t have chance with Magic, looks like he’s an open book.”

“Where have you been hon?” asked Andy as Magic closed the door of his condo. He was surprised that she was here. Then he remembered, she still has a key to his place.

“I called Kevin this morning, sabi niya you were with Shayla, that girl you met at the--”

Magic dropped his varsity bag and sighed, “I didn’t just meet her last night. We’ve been friends for a long time. But yes, I met her at Emba—wait, what are you doing here anyway?”

“I was checking on you, I thought you would be home, kanina pa ko nandito,”

“Ah talaga, sorry ah. Shayla and I were having so much fun. I didn’t’ realize hapon na pala,” Magic said.

As Magic went to his kitchen, Andy followed. He was making himself a cup of coffee, when she interrupted.

“Ako na, I used to do this for you all the time. Remember? When you get home from work, I always make your coffee,” Andy said, giving Magic a weak smile.

She gave him the cup and he started to sip. “But Andy, you have to admit, you still make the worst coffee,” Magic said then forced a smile.

Andy felt that this was awkward. She knew that Magic hadn’t totally forget about her and Kevin. Maybe Kevin was right, maybe Shayla and Magic are something, he was getting back at us. Get it together Andy, you were the one who wrecked everything. Magic is perfect and you ruined it all—

“Andy, are you ok?” Magic asked.

“Uh huh, I’m sorry, my mind was somewhere else. Honey? I was just wondering, about the Kevin and I thing… Uhm, I want to talk about it. You seem fine with it. But I’m not, honey, I’m so sorry, ok? ”

Magic placed the empty cup of coffee in the sink. “To be honest with you, I haven’t forgotten about it and I never forgave the two of you yet,” Andy tried to get close to him but he stopped her. “Don’t. You know what, I can’t pretend anymore. Maybe you should go, and leave the keys of my condo,”

“What? Honey!” Andy said, teary eyed.

“I think you should leave now Andy, and this thing going on between us, it’s over. That’s something that you should forget about.”

“It’s Shayla isn’t it? She’s the reason kaya madali para sa’yo na iwan ako! Six years Magic, SIX YEARS!” Andy was shouting.

“You should have thought about that six years before you slept with my best friend!” Magic was losing it. This was the first time he and Andy were in a big fight. But then, he has also lost his trust for her. Besides, she was the one who opened up the topic.

Andy was speechless. Magic was right, he always was. She ran towards the door, crying. She took out Magic’s keys from her bag and left it at the table next to the door.

When Andy left, Magic felt lighter. He had been urging himself to break it off with her and now he had done it. There was nothing to stop him from pursuing Shayla.

“He broke up with me,” said Andy flatly.

She met Kevin for dinner. He just told him about Magic and that she had been wrong. There was something going on between Magic and Shayla.

“I told you so, Magic was trying to keep Shayla away from me. I knew it, I felt it. We’ve been friends since birth, I knew him from head to foot,” Kevin said, “now I don’t stand a chance with Shayla, he would probably tell her about us,”

Andy sipped her red wine and said, “He probably had told her about us this morning. He didn’t come home until it was three in the afternoon,”

“What did I tell you? He was getting back at us, see. He knew I wanted Shayla, and he knows that you would be jealous, figure it out, Magic’s only using her,” Kevin said, slicing his steak too hard that it produced unpleasant sounds.

“Damn it! I don’t know what to do,” Andy whispered.

Kevin held her hand, and without any notice, reached out to kiss her on her lips.

“Why don’t we go to my place? We’ll have to do something about it right? Come on,” Kevin said huskily.

“You and Magic are perfect for one another! Excited na ‘ko for you! Yiiiiii… ” Hannah exclaimed.

“Hannah! Wala pa naman ginagawa si Magic eh. Shayla will cross the bridge when she gets there,” Ria said, while getting the bowl of chips.

“Guys! I’m trying to watch a movie here,” Shayla said while turning the DVD on pause. “Look, there’s nothing going on between me and Magic, eh hindi pa nga kami nagkikita after he told me about Andy and Kevin,”

“That’s my point!” Ria said, putting the DVD on play

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Hannah stood up in front of the TV, “Eh pano you don’t make any move, kasi naman Shayla, you’re not the Maria Clara type of girl, ‘wag ka ngang pa virgin dyan!”

The girls laughed at what Hannah said. But Shayla got to thinking. Will her relationship with Magic be possible if she just sat down and wait for him to do something about it?

After four movies, a box of pizza, iced teas, and chips, Hannah and Ria decided to go home. As Shayla cleaned up her living room, her phone rang.

“Hello?”

“Shayla, it’s Magic, are you busy?”

“Uhm, not really. Why?”

“Nothing. Can I come over? I mean now, nabobore kasi ako dito sa condo eh, ok lang  ba?”

“Sure. Sayang you just missed my friends. Nag movie marathon kami eh,”

“it’s alright. I just wanna see you, I’ll be there in twenty minutes,”

Magic hung up. Shayla was giggling. She was kinikilig. After this, there is a possibility of spending a future with him.

As Magic got into his car, he saw Andy walking towards him.

“Honey, where are you going?” Andy asked

Magic opened his car window, “it’s none of your business Andrea, and stop calling me honey alright? I gotta go,”

He drove off as fast as he could. He wants Andy out of his mind. He needed to go Shayla’s place. Andy was driving him crazy.

“Shayla? Are you there?” Magic was standing out of Shayla’s gate for fifteen minutes. Nobody’s answering.

“Magic, I’m so sorry. I went to the grocery kasi wala ng food, naubos na ni Hannah, eh ang daming tao kaya natagalan, sorry ha,” Shayla said, while hurryingly looking for keys in her purse.

“It’s ok, I will help you with that na,”

He carried the bag of chips and drinks Shayla bought and got in.

“You can just leave them there,” Shayla said, pointing at the kitchen table.

“ano ‘to? Lays, Ruffles, potato chips, Pringles, very healthy,” Magic said, giggling.

“Ayaw mo?”

“No, kung nakita ‘to ni Andy, naku, lelecturan ka nun na puro pampataba ‘to,”

Shayla turned to him and said, “Well, I’m not Andy. Wala akong plans na gutumin ang sarili ko ‘no. Besides, I’m not afraid to get fat,”

Magic walked to Shayla and put his arms around her, “that’s my kind of girl,”

They smiled and kissed.

“Kevin, will you stop,” Andy said. He stopped kissing her. She was at Kevin’s room, in his bed, naked.

“Why? Did I do something wrong,” Kevin asked.

“I went to Magic’s place today, he totally shut me out. It’s Shayla, that bitch, he’s trying to steal Magic from me,”

 Kevin got out of bed and put on his boxers. “You’re the one who should stop, he broke up with you, remember? You are with me now, so shut up about Magic!”

He shut the door behind him. “Kev, Kevin!” Andy said, while putting the sheets around her body and went after Kevin.

“What are we gonna do now, I mean, what are we?” Magic asked.

Shayla got up her bed and lit a cigarette.

“I don’t know, what do you think? Yeah, what do you think of me?” Shayla asked.

Magic kissed her and said, “You’re special to me Shayla, but I’m afraid that I would hurt you,”

“Bakit naman? Wait, what about Andy?”

“I broke up with her,”

Shayla wanted to smile but she hesitated. She didn’t want Magic to know she’s happy about it. It’s painful for him.

“Oh, so I’m your rebound girl,”

He started to kiss her again, “Of course not, you could be my girlfriend, that is, if you want to,”

“Maybe we should slow things up, you know, you just broke up with Andy, I don’t think you’re ready--”

Magic’s smile faded. “I wouldn’t sleep with you if I’m not ready to be with you, ano ka ba, do you really think I’m that kind of guy,”

“Of course not, I just think that you still need some time to heal, ‘diba matagal yung relationship niyo ni Andy, gusto ko lang pag isipan mo muna,”

He held her hand and put it over his chest. “Shayla, the thing is, I’ve been checking you out since the day we met, but Andy and I were fine then, so there was no chance. And now that I’m free from her and you’re not dating anyone else…”

Shayla kissed Magic on his cheek. She was glad by what he just said that she couldn’t help smiling. Magic noticed this and hugged her. She was in heaven, in the arms of the man she likes, I don’t ever want to let you go Magic, never, Shayla thought.