Flashback: Bloody Hell!

Posted on February 14, 2010 12:00 am by Veronica
Photo: "The Office" courtesy of NBC

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The bloody day came a week later. I was sleeping inside the Makati-bound FX taxi and woke up to a vibrating mobile phone. The screen displayed Sam’s name.

“Hello?”

“V! She got it na!” Sam told me excitedly.

“Got what na?” I asked groggily.

“Period!” He said. “She got her period na!”

I yawned. “Congrats at hindi buntis ang girlfriend mo. Next time kasi gumamit ka ng condom.”

At that moment, the forty-something woman who was praying the rosary beside me and the equally senior FX driver looked at me with identical expressions that could only be interpreted as “This girl is so liberated! Bless her soul!” But since I was too groggy to feel embarrassed, I slipped my phone inside my bag and went back to sleep.

That day, Sam and I spent 30 minutes of work time rehashing his girlfriend’s two-week delay. He told me over and over that he had prayed to every known saint of every religion and vowed to practice safe sex henceforth. He told me that I was the only person, living or dead, he confided to about that draining and bloody situation. He thanked me for putting up with his late-night desperate calls and my offer to buy a ‘praning kit’ for his then girlfriend.

That was the first time he hugged me, at the office pantry, in broad daylight. It was then that “Fiona," who looked liked Fiona from the movie Shrek and who was also the notorious fat-ass gossip girl in our office, walked into the pantry, saw us, and made a mad dash back to where the rest of the artists’ pool were smoking their first cigarettes.

Yes, Sam had a girlfriend when I first met him. And he did pray to all the saints and vowed to practice safe sex for…a week, and continued to have the same problem in the few months that followed until they broke up because he found out she has been two-timing him for two months. How did he find out, you ask? She missed her period again, during the time they tried using rubber for a whole month as an experiment. But of course, only I knew the grueling details because he never confided to anyone else.

He sulked for almost two months as I listened to him tell me the same story over and over. That was when I had become protective of him because behind the devil-may-care attitude was a very fragile heart.

And that was the reason some of our officemates began to think we were having an illicit love affair right under his ex-girlfriend’s nose. But it wasn’t anything like that. We were really just friends. Of course, initially, we tried explaining it to everyone. No one believed us. Eventually, we just got tired of explaining our friendship to everybody.

That gesture was the start of a beautiful friendship--perhaps the kind that you experience just once in every lifetime. However, with it came a truckload of ugly gossips that reached even the CEO’s ears.

Tags: sex,bedroom blog,veronica,Sam,friends,friendship,love story,unwanted pregnancy,condom

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  lavfifth
  26. bakit lagi nalang naloloko si Sam?
  May 12, 2010 at 07:56 pm report abuse
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  lavfifth
  25. no need to explain something to everyone..being yourself will not hurt you neither them,so who cares??
  May 12, 2010 at 07:56 pm report abuse
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  lavfifth
  24. madalas talga,a company would not entertain romance w/in..minsan nga ako rin nahihirapan..if you were in the same company and both of you will be absent,they will assume that you were together somewhere..
  May 12, 2010 at 07:55 pm report abuse
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  veronica11
  23. Hi ladies! Want to read what goes inside the mind of your average guy? Here's the link to my friend Franco's blog: http://bachelorfranco.blogspot.com/
  April 14, 2010 at 11:27 pm report abuse
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  lalabong
  22. natawa ako sa nangyari sa fx! :))
  March 30, 2010 at 04:07 pm report abuse
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  lalabong
  21. asar yung mga tsismosa!
  March 30, 2010 at 04:06 pm report abuse
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  lalabong
  20. I hate chismosas! They have no life talaga!
  March 08, 2010 at 07:29 am report abuse
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  sexybebe
  19. gusto lang ni Fiona na sya ang maging ka-close ni Sam. lol
  February 24, 2010 at 03:15 pm report abuse
• veronica11
  18. yep. too bad i know where she lives. *evil laugh* nah, karma nalang nung baboy na yon.
  February 21, 2010 at 02:48 pm report abuse
• Nino
  17. V, alam mo ba kung saan nakatira yung hayop na two-timing ex ni boss? Lika, resbakin natin! Diba sabi mo hahampasin mo yun ng pressure cooker?
  February 21, 2010 at 10:06 am report abuse
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  jhe_1212
  16. 16. Buti na lang nagkaroon na! Wahehehe... D nman pla kay Sam un!
  February 19, 2010 at 05:28 pm report abuse
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  breakaway
  15. you can call them "inggitera" coz they dont have a guy friend as hot as Sam :D
  February 17, 2010 at 11:28 pm report abuse
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  veronica11
  14. @Sweetpout: yeah, im tired or explaining the same thing to the same people anyway.
  February 17, 2010 at 11:46 am report abuse
• sweetpOut
  13. haaaaizt...taLk about the office gossipers....had a Lot of that and, yes, the best way to go about it is to just ignore it....they'll get tired of it...and they won't beliv u if u tried explaining anyways...
  February 16, 2010 at 03:46 am report abuse
• veronica11
  12. @amie: ay very true!
  February 15, 2010 at 11:45 am report abuse
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  amie1985
  11. here's what i think about office tsismosos/tsismosas: they have no life outside work! sad, but true.
  February 15, 2010 at 11:18 am report abuse
• veronica11
  10. yeah, in every office i work in, lagi akong natsitsismis. :)) Okay lang, i really don't care what they think anyway. besides, if there's one thing I learned from being gossiped about, it's this: People talk behind your back because you're ahead. :)
  February 15, 2010 at 10:54 am report abuse
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  fishbowl84
  9. owww.. nice friend V!
  February 15, 2010 at 04:30 am report abuse
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  retz
  8. Gossip is very normal in the office, at least you know for yourself na friend lng talaga kayo. It's none of their business anymore.
  February 14, 2010 at 03:45 pm report abuse
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  handpaintedsky
  7. it's a good thing that you have each other. :)
  February 14, 2010 at 12:03 pm report abuse
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  shirleylim26
  6. at first I thought Sam is gay... i was wrong. you two are lucky to have one another. may your friendship lasts forever.
  February 14, 2010 at 09:26 am report abuse
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  summerinparis128
  5. none of my best buds become my BF.i think it is best that way.i also have a guy-friend,as in best buddy @ the office and people would think were having an affair.well,V u dont owe anybody an explanation,as long as ur happy w/ ur friendship,un ang importante.ur rumors and gossips,d maiiwasan un,they must be jealous kc they don't have a guy-friend as equally gorgeous as Sam.haha
  February 14, 2010 at 06:08 am report abuse
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  toughgurl
  4. behind the devil-may-care attitude was a very fragile heart.---> awwww. Sam is good friend. although I'm not a fan of friends becoming lovers, I hope he's really the one for you.=)
  February 14, 2010 at 01:52 am report abuse
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  jhinggay19
  3. yeah, Sam is lucky to have you V.
  February 14, 2010 at 01:00 am report abuse
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  miss_techylicious
  2. awww... sad for sam but at the same time, he's lucky to have you. happy V-day! :)
  February 14, 2010 at 12:56 am report abuse
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  myles_away
  1. aww... I love to be friend with Sam too! :)
  February 14, 2010 at 12:16 am report abuse

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