Novels by Miss Vainj

Kabanata 68 I decided last night to go on shopping ng mga kailangan ko rito sa bahay. Nabawi ko na naman ang lakas ko sa maghapong pagtulog. And now, I was tryin to pull my key na kanina ko pa ibinuhos ang buong lakas ko para mahila lang ito. Kinakalawang na rin kasi, that’s why, ipapagawa ko ang susi ng bahay. Ang susi na ito ay para sa doorknob. Nakakadena lang kasi ang pinto ng bahay kahit noon pa, dala na rin ng kalumaan, kaya nasira. Hindi pa naman kasi totally maayos ang bahay, kasi nga walang maintenance, pero in terms sa kalinisan sa labas at loob ng bahay, totoo namang maayos. Oh, damn! Nakalimutan ko pa lang tawagan si tita last night para pasalamatan siya about cleaning the house. Calling Tita Dina…

Pahina 67 Humigit-kumulang nineteen hours and five minutes ang naging biyahe namin ni Celestine at ang iba pang kasama namin. Staff siguro niya, nag-decide lang kasi ako na ako lang ang mag-isang uuwi rito sa Pilipinas. Kasi nga mas mapapagastos kung magsasama ako ng isang staff ko. Kaya ko naman i-handle mag-isa ang event. Saka may assurance naman si Celestine na may tutulong sa akin sa pag-aasikaso ng event. “Finally, we’re here.” Bakas sa boses niya ang saya. “Yeah, we are.” Kabababa ko lang sa plane na sinakyan namin kanina ay ramdam ko na ang labis na init. Iba talaga ang temperatura na mayroon ang Pilipinas. Tulog, kain at picture-picture lang ang ginawa ko sa buong araw naming nakasakay sa plane

Pahina 66 Nag-uusap kaming dalawa ngayon ni Kai sa beranda, si tita muna ang nag-asikaso kay Elliote. Kailangan ko kasing masabi kay Kai patungkol sa kinuhang offer ni Matt. “I know what you are up to, Elle. Saka…ikaw na nga ang nagsabi ‘di ba? Wala ka ng nararamdaman sa ex mo, At I know naman na you’re strong enough kung saka-sakaling magkaharap ulit kayo roon. I am not saying na magkikita kayo agad-agad, pero malay mo naman ‘di ba? Maliit lang ang Pilipinas, Elle. Lalo na at sa mismong probinsya niyo pa talaga i-held ang wedding na pina-appoint sa iyo.” Pinoproseso ng utak ko ang bawat salitang sinasabi sa akin ni Kai. May punto naman kasi siya na hindi maiiwasang magkrus ang landas namin ng ama ni E

Pahina 65 Ilang araw ang lumipas simula noong napanood ko ang interview ng kapatid ko sa isang TV report. Na-tempt nga ako noon na buksan ang aking account para lang makausap ang kapatid ko. Wala naman kasing kasalanan si Luis, saka isa pa, siya na lang ang kamag-anak kong nasa Pilipinas, maliban kay Tita Dina at sa anak ko na nandito ngayon sa Norway.

Pahina 64 Bumalik akong kusina para samahan si Kai roon at tapusin na rin ang naiwan na gawain, hindi kasi ako pumayag kay Kai na kumuha kami ng katulong para gumawa ng mga magagaan na gawain sa bahay, kaya ang mga kasambahay naming tatlong babae ay hindi ko talaga pinapagawa ang mga bagay na kaya ko namang gawain mag-isa, kagaya na lang ng paghuhugas o minsan ang magluto. Pero may kinuha talaga kami ni Kai na magbab

Pahina 63 Ilang taon ang lumipas nang dito na kami tumira ni Tita sa Norway, dahil sa tulong ni Kai, na nakilala ko lang noon sa mansiyon nila Greg. Na-supposedly ay akin naman talaga ang bahay na ‘yon, hindi ko na inabala ang sarili na kunin ang papeles, pero nagpakonsulta ako sa mga may alam, hinding-hind

WakasPrevious days were only taken by me as challenges to measure how brave I am. And now I could finally say that I am finally here with my collegues wearing black and with different colors in the collar part. I should celebrate after this---graduation ceremony.'Mondejaro, Triah Benizh'Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication major in Artistry.With latin honors as Magna Cum laude. And awarded as Best in Artistry.Nang marinig ko ang pangalan ko

Kabanata 50Nagliwaliw sa aking isipan ang mga katanungan na bumabagabag sa 'kin ngayon. Bakit nandito silang lahat? Bakit nandito si dad? At bakit may papel dito sa harap ni dad."D-Dad," mahinang bulong na tanong ko kay dad, pero si dad ay walang ibang ginawa kung 'di hawakan lamang ang isang itim na ballpen sa kanyang kanang kamay. Habang nakayuko at nakaharap sa mismong papel.May malakas naman na palakpak ang umalingawngaw sa buong apartamento kaya naagaw nito ang pansin ko."This is hilarious. Buo na pala ang pamilyang Mondejaro." malakas na halakhak ang pinakawalan ng lalaki, mukhang ito siguro ang daddy nila Esra at Jivo.

Kabanata 49Walang pagdadalawang-isip akong lumabas ng sasakyan ni Jiv, pero kaagad naman niya akong hablutin nang may nakitang paparating din na isang kulay itim na sasakyan. Nagpatangay na lang ako kay Jiv at pilit ding nagtatago sa loob ng sasakyan."S-Sino naman sila?" mahina't mariin ang bawat salitang pinupukol ko sa kanya."H-Hindi ko alam. Wala akong alam." iiling-iling pa niya sa'kin.Naitaas ko na lang

Kabanata 48Nagngingitngit ang panga ko, pati kamao ko ay puputok na sa higpit ng pagkakakuyom ko. Ilang sundot na lang ay balak ko nang sumugod kay Trisha. Pero nang humakbang na ako'y may pumigil sa akin.Sisigaw na sana ako nang biglang tinabunan ang bibig ko at kaagad na hinigit palayo sa silid ni dad.Nagpupumiglas na ako sa sobrang higpit ng pagkakahigit sa aking kamay at pagtabon ng kamay nitong tao sa aking bibig.

Kabanata 47Pinalipas ko muna ang gabi bago pumunta sa hospital at kukumustahin si dad. Simula pa kagabi halos hindi ako makatulog ng maayos dahil sa mga rebelasyong nalalaman ko patungkol sa kapatid---dapat ko pa ba siyang ituring na kapatid?Paano kaya nagawang gawin iyon ni mom kay dad? Minahal ba niya talaga si dad o ang pera lang nito ang kailangan niya. Alam din kaya ni dad ang tungkol dito?"Triah, don't stress up yourself at baka ikaw na naman ang magkasakit. Alalahanin mo may iniinda ka ring katawan na dapat mo ring ingatan." haplos sa akin ni Jen sa likod at inaagaw ang atensyon ko para hindi na makapag-isip pa ng kung anu-ano."Hindi ko lang kasi maiwasang alalaha

Kabanata 46Trisha's POVHindi ko na mabilang kung ilang beses na akong pabalik-balik rito sa apartment na tinutuluyan namin at doon sa bar na pinasara dahil sa nalamang illegal pala ang serbisyo nila mom.Ayaw nang mag-digest ng utak ko sa mga nangyayari ngayon sa buhay ko. Ang dami kong nalalaman, pero akala kong alam ko na lahat, akala ko hindi ako paglilihiman ni mom. Pero bakit hindi niya nasabi sa akin na illegal pala ang bar niya.

Chapter 78We lost sight of the strange cloud we saw earlier, and instead of looking for that strange cloud, we just ignored it in the end, seeing that if we choose our curiosity over our mission, it might slow down our journey. Curiosity kills, as others would say. We just tell and make ourselves believe that maybe that strange cloud we saw just does not exist for real. Or maybe we did not see it in a clear view. What’s important now is our mission, nothing else would matter most. And maybe the three of us just see it as something unusual but not in the actual.“Won’t you still stop waiting for that strange cloud to come out again, Brother Harris, and Kiloy? Because if you’ll ask me if I were you, just don’t bother to disturb that cloud anymore. It is a waste of our time. Your curiosity will slow us down. That may just want our attention. And it is unworthy for real. Let’s just leave it l

Chapter 77We now continued our journey, left the river after we already satisfied our thirst, and then walked and walked to where our feet would take us. We don’t want to waste our time, since Dralia, and the whole palace including the whole vampire race needs us now. I’m just worried now on this walk of ours, what if we meet some other kingdoms again? How can we explain to them that we are not adversaries?That we don’t have any single intention to harm them and their entire kind? What if we meet some obstacles or challenges along the way that will slow down our pace? What if something will happen to us while we are busy completing our mission and do not care anymore about our safety? I have these thousands of what-ifs in my mind, but I am motivating myself to do my best through this journey, and finishing it successfully will be great.It would be nice if Dralia was given a choice to be with us right now because we did

Chapter 76We don’t have any slightest idea of where we are now, but given that we already feel tired, it only means that we are already far from where we came from, which is the palace, and we, in that far just by running and jumping as quickly as possible. Our tiredness is like killing us slowly, that is why we stopped and rested for the meantime. We need to rest of course especially that we had to use our energy that much to quickly get out from the palace unnoticed by the black vampires.It is not an easy task to do since vampires have a strong smell. That means it can smell anything, everything. You name it. This is the right timing for us to rest since the morning already arrived and we are still running and jumping around not noticing it. It slipped out from our minds since we don’t care anymore if the morning reached us. All we think about is how to get out, continue the journey even with Dralia not around unlike the usual, and most

Chapter 75How long have we been here inside the CR, just staying inside and waiting for Dralia to permit us to at least show ourselves but Tonette still doesn’t let us out. I am now even more confused about what was happening right now. What’s going on outside and why doesn’t she let us out? What is it, for real? Is Dralia still safe?Where are Tita Delia and Sir Dracu? Why are we hiding like this as if someone had just arrived and does not want to see us? I hope Kiloy and I hurried to use the bathroom earlier, it may be possible that we can still have a chance to witness or at least had a peek with the incident right at this moment outside. And maybe I could be of help just in case something bad happened outside. I just hope Dralia and her parents are still outside safe and sound.And I just hope this hiding will end in no time for I am very worried about Dralia now and wanted to see her in an instant with my two eyes.

Chapter 74We made the most out of the few hours we could spend with Dralia’s parents since we only have limited time now. The full moon is fast approaching and we should continue our journey to Del Mundo Mountains again so we could reach there right on time. As well as we still can plan our next move upon reaching there. We should hurry before it is too late. All the fellow vampires hope that we could do our mission successfully and we could save everyone, even humans from bad vampires as well.To make our stay more memorable since we only have a little time left to stay here, we had a celebration in which Dralia first informed us of the reason why we held this kind of celebration and her parents agreed to prepare for everyone. This celebration symbolizes hope for everyone that we could make it and finish our mission right on time, and a reminder to us that they trust us and we should try our best to fulfill our mission for them. It is like a fa

Chapter 73There was a sudden knock on the door. That unexpected knock made us quickly arranged ourselves properly before we answered who knocked on the door and found out who was waiting outside. After the door opened, that was the only time we had come to realize that we didn’t lock it earlier the moment we entered the room.That made my heartbeat raised faster than the actual upon realizing that we were just as calm as it was, not knowing or making sure of locking the door in the first place before doing something that would be embarrassing for the both of us if ever someone of their family, like one of her parents or maybe Tonette, who would be caught us doing awkward thing inside. We were both very careless.How idiot we were. But we didn’t blame ourselves to the fullest since we did not plan of doing it in the first place. It was just an accident for real. We were just being drowned in our emotions and that ma

EPILOGUEPrevious days were only taken by me as challenges to measuring how brave I am. And now I could finally say that I am finally here with my colleagues wearing black and with different colors in the collar part. I should celebrate after this--- the graduation ceremony.'Mondejaro, Triah Benizh'Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication major in Artistry. With Latin honors as Magna Cum laude. And awarded as Best in Artistry.When I heard my name my heart beat faster, finally I am here...finally I am also done with burning eyebrows every time I study here at Harvard University."Congratulations, Miss Mondejaro," greeted a few professors here at the University. Some of them are my professors, and I am proud to say that I also became their favorite student.Endless gratitude was my response to all of them as they shook hands. The pleasure I felt at these times was overwhelming.After our life in C

Chapter 50The questions that bother me right now are running through my mind. Why are they all here? Why is dad here? And why is there a paper here in front of dad?"D-Dad," I softly asked dad, but dad did nothing but hold a black ball-pen in his right hand. While bent over and facing the paper itself.Loud applause echoed throughout the apartment so it grabbed my attention."This is hilarious. The Mondejaro family is complete." the man let out a loud laugh, it looks like maybe it's the daddy of Esra and Jivo."What is that doing here? That's not right!" mom's pushing me away."No, it's fine, Analissa. You don't want your whole family here?" it let out a devilish laugh."I'm not kidding here, Arthuro. And one more thing---aren't you done with what you want to be signed so we can get out of here? Because the space in this apartment is shrinking." Mom's tone of voice was a hint of insult.Because of what mom said I immediately turned the pape

Chapter 49I got out of Jiv's car without hesitation, but he immediately grabbed me when he saw a black car approaching. I just gave in to Jiv and tried to hide inside the car."W-Who are they?" every word I throw at him is soft and strong."I-I don't know. I don't know." he still grabbed me.I just raised my eyebrow at the curiosity on his face. "A-Are you sure? How can I trust you? Your father is the one who called here, Jiv, and even though I didn't go to college---I'm not a fool." I know I uttered too many words, but I felt differently about him."Is that how you think of me, Benizh? Is that so? Answer me," his eyes were already glaring staring at me. Very different from Jivo whom I met cheerful and heavenly.I couldn’t measure a stare at him, so I averted my eyes from his eyes. But he violently reached both my shoulders and immediately confronted him. I was already writhing in pain caused by the painful twisting of his hand on my shoulder.

Chapter 48My jaw clenched, and my fist was about to explode with the tightness of my clenching. Just a few pokes, I plan to rush to Trisha. But when I took a step, someone stopped me.I was about to scream when someone suddenly covered my mouth and immediately walked me away from dad's room.I was already struggling with the extreme tightness of overcoming my hand and covering this man’s hand in my mouth.'Damn! Why now? Trisha is still in dad's room!'Words that in my mind can’t go out onto my mouth. I didn't see a security guard in front of dad's room, maybe they’re looking for something to drink because I didn't buy water.Shocks!Instead of continuing the struggle, I chose to drift away so as not to waste my strength. And I might even be attacked by my phobia at the thought of things."Shhh." calming down even more this man over me. How can I calm down if this is his way?I noticed that when we were in the parking

Chapter 47I spent the night first before going to the hospital and saying hello to dad. Since last night I can hardly sleep well because of the revelations I know about Trisha---should I still consider her my sister?How could a mom do that to dad? Did she really love dad or was it just his money she needed. Does dad know about it too?"Triah, don't stress yourself up and you might get sick again. Remember that you are also working on your body that you should also take care of." Jen caressed my back and grabbed my attention so that I couldn't think of anything else."I just can't help but remember what I found out yesterday, Jen. And one more thing, what if dad---finds out about Trisha?” I opened my eyes staring intently at Jen because of the shocking thought."Triah, stop glaring at me, no matter how want your eyes to get bigger but you can’t. You’re still chink" she was still joking with me and smiling.I felt a little annoyed.

Chapter 46Trisha's POVI can't count how many times I've been back and forth here to the apartment where we were staying, and to the bar that was closed because it turned out that mom's service was illegal.My brain no longer wants to digest what is happening now in my life. As much as I know, but I thought I knew everything, I thought mom wouldn't keep me a secret. But why didn't she tell me that her bar was illegal?"Trisha, sweetie." mom called me calmly when she saw me just entering the kitchen."Yes," I replied as I went to the small and old refrigerator and fetched cold water. Suddenly a cockroach passed by."Ew! Ew, ew!" I was about to squat on the foot of this cockroach that had passed by the edge of the predator."What's that, Trisha?" mom raised her voice."Cockroach," was my short reply. "Where should I throw it, mom?" mom's eyes narrowed at my question."Damn, Trisha. Where are such things thrown?" mom raised her voice agai