KABANATA 63

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

(Gabion POV)

“It’s Christmas day…”

That’s debatable, I thought, as I wove around my mother’s massive Christmas tree with a bottle of wine in my hand. Every year, they invited hundreds of celebrities and musicians to a holiday bash at her mansion, and hundreds of people showed up, crowding my mother's home. I’d hated these annual parties for as long as I could remember, but I’d never missed one. I was giving up a Saturday evening with Arzelle and the twin to be here. That was love.

But I still loved my mother. Since my father died dahil sa lungkot, stressed at depression, I’d been their model son, trying to fill the hole my father had left. Well, most of the time I was their model son. But years ago I was more of a demon than today. Molested a girl at ninakaw pa ang mga anak niya.

“Gabby!”

That was my friend Agus using the nickname he invented to irritate me. I turned to find him hand in hand with his girlfriend Aerin. Dart and Atarah were ther