Chapter 2

In one breath, after the two left the mansion, she went to her room. She pounced onto her bed and started crying.

She cried and cried.

Her drunkenness' was long gone but her head is still aching. But she doesn't care because the pain in her heart is more painful than her headache and she doesn't know when will it end. Or will it end? She gave all her love to Dylan but this is what she gets. She felt like her heart was brutally strangled by a large hands. The pain she's feeling was unbearable.

It is painful when someone betray you especially if you invested something special and if the persons involved were close to you.

How could the people that I trust and care the most do this to me?

She wished she didn't learn about her real parents.

She wished that she didn't discover who really is her parents.

Or... how great it have been if she didn't meet Dylan? That way, she would never have hurt this painfully.

And... she would never have developed feelings for him.

If only she knew this would happen to her... she would have stopped falling for him.

If only and that's a big "IF"

Maezhei laid spread out on the bed, crying more and more violently. She cried until her entire body started to twitch and she couldn't breathe.

"I only see you as my little sister..."

"I'm in love with Silica."

"I only see you as my little sister..."

"I'm in love with Silica."

"I only see you as my little sister..."

Those simple words repeatedly echoed in her mind before she realized what it really meant.

***

Five years later, finally, the stormed have passed. Maezhei graduated Bachelor in Catering and Culinary Arts in Canada. And now, she was taking up Bachelor of Arts. One more year before she will graduate. Though Dylan was the reason why she study on how to cook, as time goes by, she learns to love cooking. Besides she's still going to pursue her childhood dream which is to become an actress. The Queen of Films.

"Zhei, are you really going back to City A?" Kath, her bestfriend asked her.

It's been five years since that incident happen and she's moved on. She doesn't feel anything anymore when she thinks of them... of him. Only hatred.

"Yes," she answered while fixing her clothes and putting it in her luggage.

Five years have passed and she really miss her grandfather, the only family member who truly cares for her.

Days after that day happened, her parents went home from Singapore. And guess what? Instead of believing her, they even scolded and accused her. The have tables turned.

They chose Silica over her, their real daughter! They believed her over her!

Hah.

I get it. They have been together with her longer than me but I am still the real Dayone! Not her!

She stole my identity!

***Flashback

7 years ago, an old man with four bodyguards and a doctor went to their house in the province and told them that she was not a real Garcia.

"What are you talking about?" her mother asked the doctor. Maezhei can't seem to find her tongue because she was shocked of what she just heard.

She was not a Garcia? Are they kidding me? - she asked herself.

The doctor handed them a brown envelope. My father took them then he opened it without further ado. 

"That day, in the hospital, something happened. If you can recall it, there was a sudden short earthquake that time. The reason why the nurse who was assigned that time got confused of the two babies." The doctor explained.

"And how sure are you that Maezhei was the other baby?" Her mother asked. The doctor was about to answer when the old man suddenly spoke.

"We can run a DNA test though it is not needed because I am sure that Maezhei is my grand daughter and not the one in the Mansion. And... she resembles my late wife." The old man sadly said while looking at her.

Maezhei saw the longing in the old man's expression. But she still refused to believe it.

How can I believe them if all my life, I have known that Mama and Papa are my parents? I've been living with them for 16 years now!

"Apo, I know it's hard to believe but you are really a Dayone." The old man said then he holds both her hand.

[Apo is what you call to your grand daughter.]

***End of Flashback

So, to cut the story short, I am a Dayone and Silica is the real Garcia, my switched-birth-parents real daughter.

But despite knowing the truth, Maezhei's biological parents still want Silica to live in the Mansion. Also, Silica doesn't want to leave the Dayone's Mansion because she says that she have grown to love the Dayone especially her biological parents. So, she doesn't want to leave them. My switched-birth-parents refused but when Silica was the one who requested it, they agreed eventually but she promised to visit them from time to time. Also, one of the reasons why they agree was because of her career as an actress.

So, Mama and Papa adjusted for her and visits her in the mansion when they wanted to see her. They understood Silica living in the mansion because she's an actress and they do not want to hinder her from achieving her dreams.

And it's really not a problem to her because at least she can still see her switched-birth-parents and her siblings. Though Jake and Bea doesn't visit often because of their on-going classes.

Living in the Mansion also helped her because she can continue her study. Also, that time, one of her reasons why she agreed is because Dylan is in City A.

She followed him in City A but... that happened. He betrayed me.

And they will make them regret what they did to her especially her so called 'sister'.

--hidayawu--