CHAPTER 3M I R A N D A"How was the honeymoon?" Aunt Jo asked.Landon and I were having dinner together with his entire family in a special restaurant where we reserved a VIP room for all of us. I was worried when I arrived because I know Charlotte is here and I still find it difficult to actually talk to her. She still scares me even though I know that she's learned to accept me for Landon."You've both been gone for one month. I bet the places you've been to were marvelous." Felicitè commented and smiled at me."It was. Purely fantastic, wasn't it love?" Landon asked me while he forks his steak into his month."Yes. I was completely in awe. Dubai got me pretty badly. Still haven't gotten over it that’s for sure." I commented with a smile."We should go and do shopping at Dubai together, Randy." Charlotte blurted.I could tell that aunt Jo and her husband were surprised and so did Landon. I quickly smiled at her, happily, and I was too joyful that she wanted to go to Dubai and do s
CHAPTER 4M I R A N D A"You knew about Ben?" I asked her.She nods, "Of course dear. When I saw Ben on TV, I knew he was little Hugo. They looked totally the same and I remember Hugo when he was Ben's age."I smiled at myself."Are you with Ben?" She asks with hope in her eyes."He's in New York. Landon didn't want Ben to get his tantrums while we're on vacation so we thought it was better to let him stay in New York with his aunt.""It's much safer too." Gladys agrees.I nodded, "Plus he needs to visit his pathologist as well. And do some of the rehab activities that are helping him through." I smiled at my answer."I felt bad I haven't visited you during those days. I'm sorry.""No need to be sorry. It's really okay." I muffled.We continued walking arm in arm-around the restaurant."Mum! Look who I bumped into." Gladys chimes.I felt relieved when I didn't see Hugo around the table. It was only her and Mrs. Anne. She gapes and stands on her feet while she welcomed me with her arms
CHAPTER 5M I R A N D ALandon and I were the last ones to leave among his family and we intended to stay behind. They left ahead of us and we decided to stay a little bit with the Saintclares to have a little chitchat. Although I wanted to leave since Hugo was around, Landon decided to stay as he ordered a cup of tea but I ordered nothing else since I was already too full.We talked about how our honeymoon turned out and I can't help but comment about it because I literally indeed enjoy it too much. I'm not intentionally making Hugo feel jealous of what I experienced with Landon because I literally had the best time of my life with everything I did that one whole month.We discussed more about Mrs. Anne’s health condition and how she has been having diet meals to maintain her body weight. We furthered talked about Gladys’ business and how she had changed after she started working on her own business. The conversation was overflowing and I enjoyed having the conversation with them alt
CHAPTER 6M I R A N D AI feel like I deprived him from everything that Hugo could offer him. I feel like Ben's imagination of a complete happy family will not be real because of me even though Landon can provide him with it, I know he still wishes that it’s with Hugo. I always end up blaming myself when Hugo can't give so much attention for Ben now."Mom?" Ben calls out my attention."Yes baby?" I answered as I push his hair off his face."When's daddy Hugo c-coming home?" He asks with his innocent eyes.I sigh inwardly.I don't have any idea Ben. It's been a week since I saw him in London and I don't know when he's going to visit you. I answered him mentally.I smiled. "Do you wanna give daddy Hugo a call?" I asked.Ben nods vigorously. "Can I?""Of course." I reached for my phone and searched for Hugo's number.I hit call.It was just ringing.I pressed my lips together and waited for Hugo to pick up his phone to answer me.H U G O My phone vibrates on top of the table which stops
CHAPTER 7M I R A N D A"Doing great Ben!" I hear Landon.I turned my attention to Landon and Ben who were trying to fly a kite. We were having a small barbecue party slash get together at our backyard. Vivian and Art were here, Leon and Scarlet came too since they were around town today while Paris and Zachary came all the way here to visit us.We were all making barbecues, Leon did most of the grilling while the ladies, set up the table. Zachary and Landon were playing with Ben and I think all of us are enjoying our day so far just relaxing.When it was time to eat, all of us settled down on the table and started eating together as soon as everything was ready. We talked about so many things that we could possibly think of. We tackled on how things were going with them while we were on our honeymoon. I heard Paris and Zachary were expecting another baby and we're all so happy for them. Scarlet just opened a new boutique and I heard she's designing her own clothing line. No wonder th
CHAPTER 8M I R A N D A"What are you two doing here?" Landon pops out of nowhere and cuts us off from our conversation. He laced his arm around my shoulders as he says, "You two should join us."I smiled and held Paris's hand while she stares at me and looks at me at me with her bothered eyes. She makes me worry about what's bothering her because it is evident that she is thinking about something. She makes me worry about these things that she's saying to me out of the blue and I’m worried because she sounds like she wants me to be careful about something or maybe someone.We joined the others and sat back down on the table. I sat next to Landon while my eyes were glued to Paris. She looks troubled as hell. It got me thinking that why would she want to tell Hugo about the truth now? Something must have happened."Have you guys planned already on the baby's name?" Scarlet asked.I travelled my head to her."We don't know the gender yet." Landon answers. "We want it to surprise us."I
CHAPTER 9M I R A N D ALandon just went out to his recording studio and I'm sure he'll be back late again because he'll be doing some major edits on this new album he's getting so pumped up with.It was his first album and artist to produce EDM and house music kind of songs. I know how excited he was with this and I know this is a huge deal for him. I was immensely happy for him because he's really expanding his music field on different genres now. Aside from pop, hip hop and some rock-indie music, he's now taking over a whole new different level.I was watching TV with Ben because he just loves early morning cartoons and seems like I've gotten used to it too. I was combing his hair for him while he was busy munching on his cookies."Are you ready for your rehab activities today Benny?" I asked him."Yes!" He chimes.He just loves going to those rehab activities lately. He met a few friends who were just like him and I'm happy Ben is coping up after that accident. He's getting perfec
CHAPTER 10M I R A N D AHugo and I headed out of the rehab center and walked to the nearest Starbucks. We marched our way inside and thank god nobody mobbed us on the streets."What do you wanna have?" Hugo asks me while he leans his hand over the counter.I take a minute to think. I don't really want anything to drink, I just wanted to come with him. I glanced at him and he's looking at me thoroughly, studying my facial expression."Mocha latte. Venti." I said."Make that two please." Hugo added with his deep hoarse voice."Should we put it under your name sir?" She asked Hugo.He nods. "Yes, thank you." He smiles tight-lipped before he looked back at me, "Do you want anything to eat?"I shake my head in response.When Hugo was done paying, we settled ourselves on a table and waited for our orders to be called out. He sits right across me as he pushes his hair off his face."How's Alex?" I asked out of the blue."He's getting a bit heavier everyday." He answers while he locks his ey