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Callie's POV

Napapikit ako ng mariin nang maramdaman ko ang subrang sakin ng ulo ko. I groaned and almost shouted at my cell phone, which was still ringing. Ang ring ng phone ko ang gumising sa'kin, gayong subrang sarap ng tulog ko. Hindi ko tuloy maiwasang mainis ng subra sa kung sino mang tumatawag sa'kin ngayon. I still want to sleep! I still want to lay in this bed! 

Para akong isang zombie nang maupo ako paa kunin ang phone ko. Inis ang ginawa kong pagpindot sa phone ko para sagutin ang tawag nang hindi ion gaanong tinitignan.

"What? Hindi ka ba tinuruan ng parents mo na huwag mambulabog ng taong tulog! Ang aga aga tapos naninira ka ng tulog! I am fvcking sleeping, so don't fvcking call me!" I yelled while not looking at the person who called me.

Talagang inaantok pa ako at wala akong oras para tignan ang kung sino mang tumawag sakin ng subrang aga.

"What did you do tonight? Get drunk again, Callie? And what's with that fvcking curse? Are you cursing your father?" I closed my mouth and almost wrinkled my face when I heard my father's voice.

Para akong binuhusan ng malamig na tubig at napalunok na lang sa namuong kaba na nararamdaman ko ngayon.

"D-Dad?" Utal na sambit ko. Fvck! Ang tanga tanga naman, Callie!  Why don't you look to see who the caller is first before saying something like that? Kahit hindi ko siya nakikita ay alam kug umuusok nanaman ang ilong nito sa subrang galit. Napahilot ako sa sintido ko kasi mas lalo atang sumakit ang ulo ko ngayon.

"Goodmorning, dad," I just said.

"I told you to stay in your hotel room, but why do I feel like you didn't follow me again? When are you going to follow everything I said?" Daddy said softly but firmly.

I groaned before speaking. "What did you expect me to do? Manatili rito? Humiga maghapon at buong gabi? Ghad, Dad! Ang oring kaya non. Lumabas langa ko saglit at pumunta sa malapit na bar and just had a few drinks," I said softly to him.

"It's not your style to just drink a few drinks, so don't fool me. I know that you are a drunkard, so don't give me some lies!" I bit my lip when I heard that from him.

I bit my lips at naitapon na lang ang buong katawan sa kama.

"Dad, if you called to scold me, you should just stop now and do that later. I have a headache and I need to rest. I want to sleep and get my handsome rest," I said with a frown to him.

"You did that to yourself, Callie. Now, fix yourself, and we'll go to your Tito Zachary's house and don't say that fvcking handsome rest; it's a called beauty rest and hell! You are a girl," he said. I groaned in annoyance.

"Daddy! Let's just go there tomorrow—"

"The driver will pick you up, so make it fast. Be shy around your Uncle Zachary and don't make them wait," he said, and before I could speak, the phone quickly died.

"Nakakainis naman!" Inis na sambit ko at padarag na binitawan ang phone sa kama ko.

Hindi ko alam kung bakit nandito ako ngayon sa Manila. Hindi ko alam kung bakit ako sinama ni Daddy rito. Hindi naman niya ako sinasama tuwing pumupunta siya rito, ngayon lang kaya hindi ko maiwasang magtaka, and yesterday he left me here at the hotel and wanted me to just stay here, but I am so bored that I went out. Hindi ko lang nagawangpigilan ang sarii at naparami ako ng inom kahit na sinabi ko naman sa sarili na kaunti lang ang iinumin ko.

Sa subrang dami ng nainom ko, hindi ko maalala kung paano ako nakabalik. I don't even remember how I got here at the hotel, but the important thing is that I am here already and I'm safe.

Kahit na binilin ni Daddy na bilisan ko, hindi ko iyon ginawa. Para mainis siya ay imbes na bilisan ko ay binagalan ko pa. I don't care if Daddy will be mad again; Tutal ay palagi naman itong galit kasi tomboy ako. Hindi niya gusto ang pagiging tumboy ko, pero wala akong pakealam. 

Heto ako at yayakapin ko kung ano ako.

While it took me a while to fix it, my phone kept ringing because of the call.

I didn't answer that and just stared at myself in the mirror. I tied my long hair and hid it in my hat. I was wearing a jersey dress and loose shorts. I smiled in the mirror.

"I'm really handsome," I said with a smile. I picked up the phone to answer Daddy's call, and I almost closed my eyes at his angry voice.

"I told you to make it fast!" He said angrily.

"I'm coming down," I said impatiently, and she immediately hung up. When I got out, my eyes were almost filled with stars because I saw so many beautiful women around the hotel that if our family driver hadn't called me, I might have forgotten that I needed to hurry and someone was waiting for me.

Zacky's POV

"Son, maybe you better think about it first. This is not a good idea. What is there on that island? You have everything—"

"Not everything, Mom. I want that island, and until I don't get that, I still don't have everything," I said to Mommy and faced her.

She is here in my room. She was trying to change my mind and think about agreeing to the engagement, but I had already made up my mind.

"We're talking about marriage here, Zacky—"

"It's just marriage, Mom. Marriage is not a big deal to me." I laughed and told her, but she frowned at me, and I can clearly see that she really doesn't like this.

I sighed and approached her.

"Mom, just let me do this. I want that island very much," I calmly told her.

"What if you succeed in turning her into a real woman? What will you do, Zacky?" She asks softly.

I shrugged my shoulders. "That will be nice and good, Mom. When I make her a woman, then that island will be mine," I told her, the reason for her gasping.

"What if she falls in love with you?" I was stunned.

"That was already her problem, Mom. All I want is that island," I said simply.

I looked in the mirror and looked at myself there. If she fell in love with me, that was really her problem. Mommy can't do anything to change my decision, so her shoulders dropped when we went downstairs because Tito Zeyo was already downstairs.

Today, I will meet her daughter and announce the engagement between the two of us. Does she know about it? When we were already in Downstaire, only Tito Zeyo and Tita Helie were there. 

I can't help but let my eyes roomed to look where their daughter is.

"I'm sorry. That daughter of mine is really stubborn. I told her to hurry up and not make you wait, but she intentionally was late to just annoy me," said Tito Zeyo while massaged his forehead. It looks like her daughter is really giving them a headache. Next to Uncle Zeyo is Aunt Helie, his wife.

I heard Aunt Dexie laugh. "Where else will she inherit that? It's you, Zeyo." She laughed, and Tito Zeyo just laughed too about it, like that was correct.

"You are correct, Dexie. He is very angry with her daughter because she is stubborn, but his daughter inherited that from him," Aunt Helie said, glimpsing at me.

She smiled at me. "I know what you and your uncle talked about. She was stubborn, so I hope you can do it."

I am about to talk, but I wasn't able to focus on what Tita said when my attention was grabbed by the woman in men's clothes who entered our living room.

Fvck? My eyes widened, especially when Tito Zeyo caught a glimpse of her, and they called her Callie. She just looked at me and didn't seem to recognize me.

What the hell! She is that tomboy in the hotel! What the? Why is the world so small?

"You?" I can't help but question that. She frowned and looked at me.

"Me? Why?" She laughed and immediately fell her body on the sofa to take a seat.

"Callie!" Tito Zeyo reprimanded her when she sat like a guy in front of us as if she were not a woman.

"I'm so tired, dad—"

"Where's your respect?" Uncle Zeyo said angrily, and he really didn't like his daughter's behavior anymore.

She looked at us and greeted them one by one. Daddy just nodded, and they also saw the shock while looking at the woman acting like a man in front of us.

I held my neck and laughed slowly. Their eyes were now on me, and I was surprised at what I did to laugh. I know that they are all shocked that Uncle Zeyo's daughter is really acting like a man, but hell! I am more shocked than them. This tomboy vomited in my clothes last night! Fvck!

"She is your daughter, Uncle Zeyo?" I couldn't help but ask that of Uncle Zeyo, even though it was already obvious. I stared at Callie right now and shook my head. This is insane. I gasped. She looks more manly than me, and what's with the shorts? Her shorts were too loose!

"Why are you staring at me like that? Tito Zachary, is he your son? I can say that he is speechless about how handsome I am. Are you jealous because I'm handsome? You're handsome, but I'm more handsome," she said, laughing.

"Stop it, Callie," her father scolded, but she didn't seem to hear anything.

Tito Zeyo was stunned while Aunt Helie's face was wrinkled, and she could no longer look at us as if she were ashamed of what her daughter had said.

I laughed at what she said. She frowned at my laughter. Damn!

"This is exciting, huh?" I laughed and said that. It looks like I'm going to enjoy it. Making her a real woman will be fine. Fvck! I let her pay for what she did last night!

"What are you talking about?" She frowned while she asked me that question.

Instead of speaking, I stood up. I stood in front of him, so she looked up. I raised my hand in the air.

"I'm Earl Zach, but you can call me Zacky." I introduced myself, but she just patted my hand.

"That's too formal, but, yeah, I'm Callie. You can call me whatever you want," she said.

She is a woman, but she moves like a man, but I'll make sure that I'm going to make her scream in bed and beg me to touch every corner of her. I looked at her lips, and I couldn't help but stare at them. It's too pale, but that's okay because I'll make sure that I'll make her lips red using my lips.

I'll make her do what she did to me last night. I can't believe that I am now excited about this engagement.