Passenger 11-F2

for thee heartbeats he looks at her face, then he rolls his head on his shoulders. "so you think that that was more stupid than the car chase thing on ECP?"

she was still laughing when she answered. "yes. i think that was more stupid than what we did on ECP."

"why is it more stupid?"

"because i say so..."

he had to laugh. everytime she would get cornered she would do her because-i-say-so song. he looked up and stared at the night sky. the sky seemed like royal velvet with diamonds flirtaciously winking at him. He often wondered why their relationship status never went past the best friend stage, they had a couple of those hawwire moments before but it never progressed to anything beyond that. he takes the bottle of vodka from her and drinks from it. "why didnt you take that job offer in Singapore? from what i heard Tita Chel said that they offered a $6000 sgd for your skill set"

she jerked at the question and looked at him hard. "i didnt know you still talked to Tita Chel"

"still talked is relative. i visited her when we went to Singapore because i thought you were there. i know that you were mad at me for dragging you there just so maia and i could talk. i mean when we landed at changi, you left me there. took a cab, left your bag at Chini's and *poofed*"

she took a drag from her cigarette before answering. "yeah i was pissed off. its a good thing Orion met up with me. in the cab from the airport, i called him up and told him i had to rant about you. hahahaha. 'twas a good thing that he had work that day. so we hung out at the starbucks near tower 5."

"i see. ever wondered how come we never got past the friend stage?" he asks while stretching his arms above his head.

"its because we both know what we looked like when we were kids. hahahaha. youre a snot nosed chinky bastard child who had bad hair and funny teeth. why would i want to end up with you?" she laughingly answered.

he tugs on her hair and pokes her sides. she whacks him with the potato chip bag. they continue on like that for a few minutes then she shouts at him. "hoy punyeta! we might fall oiff this wall. i just got my ribs healed and i dont want to have them broken again. EVER.what time is it anyway?"

he looks at his watch, "its 4:38am."

"almost sunrise. as soon as it does, can we get off this wall? i need to catch some zzz's."

"sure." he looks at her and asks the question that had been bugging him for quite awhile now. "do you think i was stupid for going to singapore and tried to patch things up with maia?"

she takes the last mouthful of vodka from the bottle and throws it with violent grace to the bushes below. "i didnt that was stupid. i thought that was kinda brave, but thats just me." she shrugs right after giving that answer.

he gives her his trademark smirk, then says "thank you. yours is one of the few that matters." he reaches out his right hand and puts it over her left hand then squeezes it. she twines her fingers with his. he notices that she was wearing something on her ring finger. "is this the ring that i gave you years back?" he asks while moving his thumb over the ring.

"yup. never took it off since you gave it to me."

"cool. hey... you didnt answer my question.."

she looks at him and asks "which one?"

"why didnt take any of the job offers there in Sg?"

she grins at him and says "if you know me well.. you'd know the answer to that..."