he's so STEM coded he can't survive a debate in our class. That is why I think STEM x HUMSS have great chemistry. A scientific smarty pants need their society based smarty pants, if you want to say otherwise go argue with the wall. My clouded brain will not be entertaining logical opinions as of the moment—it's closed.

Grabe self, sobrang laki ng tinalon ng pagiisip mo. Parang walang sakit eh, parang tanga.

"Oh wow, nakalimutan kong pakainin si Melody. Baka ka nga umiiyak na yun sa gutom!"

His awkward laugh is not saving him at all. "Don't forget to drink your medicine," then he ran off.

"Melody, your amo is not good at this," That was the worst excuse he could come up with as Melody was circling around my chair for a while now.

"Why is your name Melody by the way?" I waited for a hot minute as if she was going to reply. To no one's surprise, she only purred and curled up around the leg of the chair.

"I'm ba-" He stopped on his tracks when he noticed that his precious cat was beneath me.

"Oh."

I popped the medicine on my mouth, downing it with the juice. "Crying, huh?"

Zy's lips thinned out, his eyes wandering around making his guilt more evident. Was that b-word so bad he did not even want to re-mention it? I guess I could let it slide even if it pains me to do so.

He slowly sat down back on his seat. "Cute ni Melody, 'no?"

I'm going to entertain his attempt of changing the topic since I somewhat feel bad that he's trying so hard to pretend that did not happen.

"Super, I've always wanted a cat."

"Why don't you have one?" Zy sipped on his cup.

"I don't know...?" Huh, ba't never kong tinanong kila Mom na bakit wala kaming pusa? As far as I know, they like cats.

"Well, to de-influence you on getting a cat they're hard to take care of," His loving grin contradicted his words.

"It's obvious you love Melody though."

"I'm not going to deny that," Zy rested his elbow on the table, letting his finger play with his lips. Hindi ko alam kung niloloko ako ng utak ko pero kasi his piercing eyes deepened in color as he let it explore my features...? I assume. I need to stop assuming.

"Anyways, I asked this cutie over here why her name was Melody and you can already predict what she answered."

"Meow?"

I nearly banged my head on the table; I opted to do that inside of my head after all I would look insane if I randomly did that. Nakakainis talaga na he's unaware of how a simple meow has me on a chokehold—his deep voice is not helping either! Bakit kasi lumalim boses niya, oo malalim naman talaga boses niya. Basta, that's not my point! It went octaves lower than usual.

Guess what's also getting lower? My IQ and EQ.

"Yes, meow."

Let me reintroduce myself, Hi I'm robotic Mel, we meet again in another system shutdown scenario in short the S.S.S also known as S.O.S. Haha, help me.

"So... Can you kindly answer that question?" Para akong nagmamakaawa sa kanya.

Zy pinched his lips harder to the point I thought he would wound himself, "Simple reason."

"She was familiar, that's why I named her Melody."

"Familiar?" Nalilito ako.

"She reminded me of a song I liked."

"What song?" I was getting drowsy. The medicine is taking effect, please not now.

"I don't know why but she reminded me of Cool Cat by Queen," Nagpakita nanaman ang cute niyang dimples. Zy must've really liked the memory of naming his cat.

"It's the only old song I jam to."

"Why didn't you name her Queen then?"

He was taken aback by my question though he only gave me a toothy grin with playful head shaking, "Melody fits better."

"I guess it does, she has the color scheme of a music sheet," I joked while my eyes tried its best to stay open.

"Mhm, black and white," He softly chuckled.

Dozing off to his soothing voice was not on my cliche check list but this is such a sound way to sleep.