Flower Shower
(Episode 1)
"Love Blossoms"
Love to Love Season 5
Jolina Magdangal - Jasmine Diaz
Alfred Vargas - Martin Cruz
Biboy Ramirez - guy Jasmine sees being showered by flowers
Jake Cuenca - Trey
Katarina Perez - ?
Jan Marini Alano - Ana
Gerard Pizzaras - Luis
Mariz - Jasmine's mom
Marco Sison - Jasmine's ninong
The prophecy
If there is one thing Jasmine Diaz holds on to dearly, it's the prophecy of a phony-looking fortuneteller she met a long time ago. When she was 11 years old (talk about starting young ;) ), she went to a fortuneteller, together with her best friend Ana, to ask for her fate in love. She impatiently asked the fortuneteller (who was taking too long) to start interpreting her fortune, which irritated the latter. Ms. Psychic looks into her lighted crystal bowl and says Jasmine will meet her true love at the age of 21. Ana butts in, "Sabi ko sa'yo Jasmine ako ang mauunang ikasal eh!" Jasmine snaps back, "Ana, ang sabi ikaw ang unang makakakilala pero hindi ibig sabihin ikaw ang unang ikakasal!"
Back to her fate: In a not so specific instance, she will hear church bells and see a guy being showered by flowers. That guy would be her destiny.
Jasmine, doubtful of what she heard, replied angrily, "Niloloko niyo lang yata ako eh!". The fortuneteller gets irritated and just when she screams at Jasmine to sit down and listen, lightning struck and deafening thunder filled the room. Ana screams, "Bilis Jasmine bayaran mo na, umalis na tayo dito nakakatakot!" Jasmine hurriedly gets a 20 from her pocket, drops it on the table, and scrambles towards the door. The psychic angrily calls out: "Kulaaaaaaaaang!"
Jasmine flower girl then, "flower girl" now
13 years after, Jasmine is a florist who manages the flower shop of her mom. Ana is about to get married the day after Jasmine's 21st birthday. During Ana's fitting, she hands the invitation to Jasmine. While opening the card, Jasmine asks, "Maganda ba ang pagkakasulat ng pangalan ko dito?", to which Ana replied, "Oo, maganda ang billing mo dyan!" While scanning the invitation, Jasmine sees a familiar name beside hers. Martin Cruz. She remembers attending a wedding when she was young where she was the flower girl and a certain Martin Cruz was the ring bearer. As she had always been hoping, she thought Martin might be THE ONE since the wedding is after her 21st birthday. Ana reminded her: the fortuneteller was a hoax and just told them lies. Unyielding, Jasmine left and went to her mom to tell the latest developments on her fate.
Flashback: At the back of a church, before the start of a wedding, a boy in a barong is being bullied while playing with his toy robot. Two kids were trying to snatch his toy from him. A young girl their age, wearing a maroon dress passes by and sees them. She orders the two kids to leave the boy alone. When the two kids started picking on her too, she pushed the tow kids, got the robot, and ran away with the boy. Hiding behind a delivery truck, the girl gives him back his toy. The young boy asked the girl if they could be friends. He introduced himself as Martin, and the girl was Jasmine.
Jasmine arrives at the flower shop and sees her ninong (godfather) and Trey, the son of her godfather ("kinakapatid") talking to her mom. Trey is to work in the flower shop as punishment for some things he broke at home. Jasmine hands the door key to Trey so he can start early the next day.
When they left, Jasmine shows her mom the invitation to Ana's wedding and again mentions her past with Martin Cruz. Her mom told her to stop holding on to the fortuneteller's prophecy. Jasmine shrugs it off for she has been waiting for her true love for 10 years already. (wow, NBSB ;) )
Missing: a groom, a contact lens
At stake: true love
On the day of Ana's wedding, her groom is missing. While Jasmine tried to pacify Ana and get her back inside the bridal car, she drops her right contact lens in the hallway of the church office. "Ana, dyan ka lang ah. Wag kang gagalaw. Alam mo naman ang contact lens, pag naapakan yun siguradong mapupunit." Ana's calls up her groom on her mobile and walked out of the hallway and left Jasmine blindly (and carefully) touching the floor trying to feel her lens. "Ana? Ana nandyan ka pa ba? Bakit mo ko iniwan?! Alam mo namang bulag ako pag walang contact lens eh!"
Here comes the groom! Only he's not...uh, quite "ready" to say "I do"
After a while, Luis--the drunken groom :eek--arrives with Martin, his best friend (and human crutch ;) ). Though intoxicated, he was able to tell Martin that if ever his brother backs out from being his best man, he's the replacement. Martin brings him inside a room and Luis fell into a sofa. The groom's mom sees her son and Martin explains it was his friend who requested for a drinking spree the night before. :(
Martin steps out of the room and sees Jasmine on her knees, still trying to look for her contact lens. He drops down on his knees bewildered, "Miss, anong ginagawa mo?" Jasmine looks up and asks, "ha? sinong nandyan?" She tries to close her right eye to see with her left eye but she couldn't see. Martin smiled and asked, "Ako ba ang kinikindatan mo?" ;) Jasmine puts her hand on her right eye and sees Martin. "Hindi no!", she answered and explained that she's looking for something she dropped. Martin then picks up her contact lens on the trail of her gown and holds it up, "Ito ba ang hinahanap mo?", he asked. Jasmine covered her eye and held Martin's hand to get a closer look at what he was holding. She saw her lens, took it and quickly got up. "O sha, goodbye!", with that she left the hallway. Martin looked at her as she walked away and sarcastically said, "Sige miss! Thank you ah!"
Starting on the wrong foot
Trey went to the flower shop early that day. He left the door open while he looked for a switch to turn on the lights. Kata coincidentally comes and sees the door open. She wondered why the door was open and started calling out for her Ate Jasmine. When she saw Trey moving in the dark, she shrieked, "Magnanakaaaaaw!!!"
Whoever dare ruin a woman's wedding shall suffer wrath in whatever form
Now seeing with two eyes, Jasmine followed the furious Ana into the hallway and into the room where her Luis is. Ana finds her groom slumped on the sofa and slams her bouquet to him and screams, "Bakit ka amoy chico?! Bakit ngayon pa sa lahat ng araw?!" Jasmine tries to hold back Ana from hurting her future husband. Martin enters the room and tries to pull the groom away and he bumps Jasmine. Jasmine pushes him away but her attention was all on Ana and didn't see Martin. Martin anf Luis left the room while Jasmine told Ana to take it easy. "Kung ganyan na siya ngayon pa lang, pano pa kaya pag mag-asawa na kami?", Ana cried. Jasmine hugged her best friend and asked her to think twice about marriage while she let her cry. :(
Sorry. Pasensya na po. Tao lang.
Meanwhile, at the flower shop, Trey was explaining his story to the police who came. Kata also tried to explain that they can't blame her for thinking Trey was a thief because she didn't know him and the lights were out. Before matters got worse, Jasmine's mom arrived and explained everything to Kata and the police. Kata just gave an embarrassed smile as the police reminded her to verify her report first the next time she calls for the police.
"Trey's 100 ways to get back at women with false accusations" Scheme 1
After a while, it was back to business. Kata just had a pleasant confirmation for an order from a customer. She puts the phone back and grabs her kikay kit to get her kikay stuff. When she got out her huge brush, she found all her make-up, cologne, mirror, etc. attached to it! :eek Trey walks in holding a strong glue and reminds Kata to her false accusations earlier. Furious, Kata threw her stuff on the floor but chose not to confront Trey.
Scheme 2
Kata went on with her work but when she needed to relieve herself, she asks Trey to look after the shop. Trey agreed but secretly followed Kata. As Kata closed the door in the comfort room, she heard a creepy sound inside. Frightened, she grabs the doorknob and tries to open the door but it wouldn't. She yelled, "Trey! Kung ikaw yan malalagot ka talaga sa'kin!" The door opens and she sees no one. Then out of nowhere, Trey appears and asks innocently, "O anong nangyari sa'yo?! …Ano nga palang ginagawa ko dito?". He grabbed something and answered his own question, "Ay oo nga pala naiwan ko ito! Remember: Trey: 2 points, Kata: 0!" Kata was infuriated.
Men who believe in destiny: fact or fallacy? hmmm.
Martin and Jasmine listened outside while the about-to-be-married couple fought inside the room. They were worried about their friends at first, but the couple's parents came inside the room and decided to take matters into their own hands. While they waited outside, Martin talked about meeting his destiny. While he talked, Jasmine found herself listening intently to Martin. Martin turned to her and asked her if she also believed in destiny. Jasmine, caught off guard, suddenly felt Martin's eyes on her and quickly denied believing in such things. "Hindi no! Hindi ko pa nga nakikita yung lalaking para sa'kin no," she said. Martin smiled at her, seeming to enjoy a wonderful sight.
Church bells, flowers, two men
As expected, Ana's wedding got canceled. Before Ana left the church, Jasmine made sure she was fine and sure about her decision. Ana assured Jasmine she was fine and she's making the right decision.
Right after Jasmine bid her best friend goodbye, the church bells rang.
She smiled at the thought of the prediction coming true, a day after her birthday. As she turned, she sees a guy coming towards her, a flower girl throwing flowers all over him. She beamed at him, unaware that Ana's groom (still drunk) was calling her and that Martin was there too with another flower girl throwing flowers all over him as well. "Jasmine pala ang pangalan niya", Martin uttered while he watched her. Ana's groom answered, "Oo, kanina mo pa kausap yan hindi mo alam?"
Continued on Episode 2…
Willow's Notes:
· Kata is Katarina Perez's nickname. I used it for this episode's summary because I couldn't remember the name of her character.
· I also couldn't remember Gerard Pizzaras' name in the story. Thanks to Ate Francine and Ailene.
My bad. ;)
· The "flower shower" scene got kind of annoying because it was illogical thus it looked off, awkward, and hilarious.
