chapter 8: I don't want to do it without you again

Marcelo once again, watched as the two ladies beside him chatted away without even bothering about him. When Penny had requested he join them, he had thought it was because she was so thoughtful of him, it turns out that she just needed him to hold onto Anaya's jotter so that she could sit comfortably in Anaya's arms. Marcelo couldn't even complain because the proximity he was sharing with her was way better than him tailing after her earlier. He recalled her as a child and how she would follow him almost everywhere, even when he told her to go away, she would still hang around. Maybe this was his karma, for not realizing what he would loose when he let her go. For as long as Marcelo could remember, Anaya had always been there, It was almost impossible to separate the girl from him, even when his parents had stopped her from seeing him, she obeyed only for the first few weeks and after that, she was back to trailing judiciously after him. At first, Marcelo had seen it as a mere obsess