Remmy brought Maria to hang out with her friends in hopes to cheer her up. She dragged Maria while holding her hand, Remmy greeted her friends and introduced Maria to them. Maria didn’t say much.

  Maria looked at a particur person behind Remmy’s friends. Her eyes widened as she khe person. The person was Noelia. Noelia looked at Maria and was as shocked as her. It was more shog for Noelia to see his friend Maria to be in a depressed state but he stood quiet pretending not to see her. Maria noticed and she uood.

  “Since everyone’s here, let’s start with biking. This trail is good for cyg,” said Jay.

  The group went to a rental bike shop to rent some bikes. Remmy suddenly stopped and the rest was fused. Remmy embarrassingly admitted that she doesn’t know how to ride a bike. Noelia rented a bicycle with a pillio and offered Remmy to ride with him. Remmy leased and agreed to.

  Maria started to feel jealous of them. Beth snapped her bad asked if she could ride a bike. Maria answered with a yes then she was given a bike. All of them got on their bikes and cycled through the trail.

  “Haha, you do it, Noel!” Remmy cheered.

  Noelia struggled to keep paddling with Remmy’s weight but he kept on going. Noelia mao get the hang on it and started to enjoy it. Noelia and Remmy were having fun together smiling and ughing while Maria watched them in jealousy.

  “Hey!” said Beth, snapping her fingers at Maria. “Stop daydreaming, we gotta catch up. By the way, the name’s Beth. I’m Remmy’s cousin.”

  “Oh, my name’s Maria.” Maria replied.

  Maria began to dislike Remmy as she was hanging out with Noelia a lot more. Beth saw Maria’s gloomy fad asked about it. Maria lied saying that she was only thinking about her ex. Theh asked her again why she was staring at Remmy and Noelia. Maria dismissed Beth’s question which made her more suspicious of her lies.

  “You’re jealous of my cousin, aren’t you?” said Beth.

  Maria stopped and asked “What are you talking about? I told you I’m only thinking about my ex!”

  “If so then why are you being bitter to my cousin whenever she’s with Noelia?” Beth returned.

  “How about you stay away from my business and mind your own!” Maria replied.

  “Hey! Remmy’s my cousin, it’s only natural I care for her,” said Beth. “You know if you have a problem, you should front it. Running away from it won’t help at all.”

  Maria ignored Beth’s words and tinued cyg away. Beth sighed and questioned how her cousin became friends with that person.

  The more Noelia hung out with Remmy, the more jealous Maria grew. She didn’t like seeing them together. Her insecurities were starting to show. When the group stopped to get drinks, Remmy invited Noelia to buy drinks with her, Noelia agreed. Remmy turo Maria and asked, Maria hesitated but agreed to join.

  The three of them went to the drink stalls and bought drinks. Noelia and Remmy’s versation made Maria somehow like a third-wheel. Maybe Ethan was right, maybe Noelia doesn’t love Maria anymore. She realized how Noelia felt when she was still datihan, she came to the clusion that this might be karma for her.

  Remmy excused herself to the bathroom leaving Maria and Noelia aloogether. Maria tried not to look at Noelia, she was too embarrassed to faoelia and strike up a versation with him.

  “That’s odd…Aren’t you supposed to be with Ethan?” Noelia asked.

  Maria stood quietly, not daring to answer Noelia’s question.

  “You broke up…didn’t you? I tell from your face when you saw Remmy with me,” said Noelia.

  Maria turned her face away and was surprised that Noelia could guess it correctly. She decided to e and was ready to apologize.

  “It’s true… we broke up. You had grown to dislike me because of how I treated you when I’m still datihan, right?” said Maria. “It’s fine, I uand and I deserved it. I don’t ask you tive me but if I have the ce… I wao say that I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I treated you like a stranger… I’m truly sorry.”

  Maria began to sretting her as towards Noelia in the past. She knew Noelia didn't want tive her but she had to accept it. Noelia’s a shocked Maria as Noelia hugged her.

  “You don’t have to. Even how you treated me before, you don’t deserve it and I five you because I still love you.” said Noelia.

  Noelia’s words made Maria in tears as she began to cry and hugged him tightly. She was thankful to Noelia for willing tive her. They reciled and embraced each other. Maria was happy that her retionship with Noelia diderribly. Remmy was watg and smiled at them from a distance.

  “Well done, Noel. You did it.” said Remmy.

  Noelia wiped Maria’s tears away and smiled at her. Maria smiled back at him. Remmy came bad preteo be unaware of it.

  “So what did I miss, guys?” she asked.

  “Well, we just talked actually,” Maria replied with a smile.

  “Yeah we just did that’s all,” Noelia tinued.

  Remmy was happy to see both of them smiling together. She hoped that their retionship would tio grow better. Then Jay called them from afar.

  “Hey we’re going head bae! Mark could really use an ice pack, he tried to fight Beth and ended up losing,” said Jay.

  “Hey!” Mark yelled at Jay.

  Jay ignored him and said to the three of them, “You guys join us if you want too!”

  The three looked at each other and chuckled. They agreed on going home too. Noelia and Maria secretly hold hands on their way walking. After they all split up, Noelia apanied Maria back to her home.

  She thanked Noelia for his generosity then Maria kissed Noelia’s cheek and bade him goodbye as she entered her apartment. Noelia stood there blushing and his face turomato red. He then walked home while his face was still red. But somewhere not far, someone was watg them.