"What are you doing here?" Axel was looking at her and waiting for her reply.
"Wouldn’t you ask me when I arrive?" Hailey mentioned as she strode around his office, "did you forget that you promised to see me in New York last month? I waited for you but you didn’t come and never contacted me back again. Why is that?"
"Let me tell you this, I admit that I made an impulsive decision before, but now that I know the truth, I wouldn’t dare do such an action again. I apologize for making you assume something about me. I mistook you for someone who isn’t you," he explained.
What are you saying, that you mistook me for someone else? Can’t you tell who I am? Can’t you recognize me?" Hailey asked him.
"What are you trying to say?" He confusedly asked her back.
"Can’t you recognize the girl who saved you three years ago? She took a ste
Aicko arrived at Schina's house early in the morning after learning from her aunt that her pal was ill. She walked straight to her room and discovered her pal resting on her bed, wrapped in a thick blanket."Schina, what happened to you? Why did you get sick?" She worriedly asked as she placed the glass of lukewarm water on the table.She scanned her friend and pitied her condition when she noticed her shaking in coldness. She pushed the curtains to the corner and opened the window to let the rays of the sun hit her body.Aicko was about to walk out and acquire medicine for her buddy when John appeared in front of her, clutching a medicine.Shegrabbeditfromhimandreturnedtohercompanion,whoassistedherinconsumingthedrugs."Whathappenedtomyfriend?"Aickoask
"Who are you to control my cousin’s freedom?" She bravely questioned her.Hailey’s lips curled up and scanned her from head to toes as if she was belittling her identity. "I am his savior! He wouldn’t be alive till now if I had not saved him.""Isn't it enough that he picked you as the winner of a contest a few months ago and sent you overseas to be trained?" Aicko frankly opened up.Hailey’s eyes turned wide, her jaw dropped as she glanced at Axel and looked at him as if she was asking if it was the truth, but he did not say anything, instead, he stood firmly."Doyouthinkyou'dstillseehimifIhadn'tdonethat?Heowesmealot""Alot?!Youmeanyouexpectedhimtogiveyoueverything?You'vegottobedreaming
"Aicko’s POV"After two days, I was still in Zamboanga because my parents were holding me back and wanted me to remain with them for a week.I checked my phone to notify my cousin that I would be returning on Monday, but I was astonished to see a report that Axel was dating Hailey and that they were having sexual relations in public!I quickly phoned Schina's phone number, my hands shaking as I waited for her to answer. "Pick up the phone, sweetie! Someone is attempting to kidnap your partner!" I mumbled as I went back and forth inside my room.She finally accepted the call after the nth time of rings, "Schina! What makes you so long to answer?!" I exclaimed."I was in the bathroom, taking a shower. What’s the matter with you?" I heard her chuckles from the other line."I better ask you that question! While you were having a shower, your boyfriend have been wit
"Schina’s POV""Can I stay here for tonight?" She asked. I can sense that there is something wrong with her by simply looking at her eyes."Sure! Come in," I told her, and helped her keep her bag inside my room."Why you didn’t rest in your home before going here?" I curiously inquired.She drop her body on the bed and sit on it while looking solemnly out of the window at the corner of my room, "I am worried about you so I hurried here and informed you about it. I don’t want you to get trouble because of my cousin and that bitch." She replied and sighed deeply.I sit next to her, placing my arm around her shoulder, "is there something bothering you, Aicko?""Nothing special, I am used to it," she sadly muttered."You aren’t used to it, your face can tell everything," I told her. She shifted her gaze to me and her e
"Fine! Hailey negotiates with Schina. "I will do what you said, but you have to delete those copies you have in front of me and I will not bother you anymore.""You have no right to negotiate with me, dear, because I am holding your future. It's either you go or stay, and your dreams will be shattered into pieces in just a blink," Schina warned her."You," she took a step closer, intending to slap her across the face, while Schina enjoyed seeing her worry when she discovered that someone knew her secret."Don’t you dare slap me or else, in just a snap of my finger, Aicko will be doing her best to play this video and it will be the doom of your career," she cautioned her, preventing her from doing so."HowcanIbecertainthatyouwouldnotsharethisfilmandinformourdeansaboutit?"shesaid 
"Hey! Axel! What kind of man are you? Are you looking for another woman in front of your girlfriend?!" Aicko lectures her cousin; a smile appeared on his face when he learned that Hailey is fine."AC," Schina glared at her buddy."What’s wrong with that? I am simply lecturing him to act appropriately in front of you," Aicko was being sarcastic.Axel felt guilty at Schina as a result of his actions, so he approached her and held her, saying, "I am sorry hun. I did not want you to misunderstand me, but she is still the reason why I am still alive.""I understand, hun," she slowly let go of him and face him, looking at him wholeheartedly, and was slowly moving their face closer to each other.Aicko cleared her throat as the lovers paused and turned to her, "did you guys forget that I was here?"They laughed at her, "let’s leave now," Schina stated, h
"What happened, hija?" Eve asked them.Schina and Aicko stared at each other and chuckled, then turned to them. "Nothing happened, Auntie. You don’t have to worry," Schina says."I don’t believe you. Why do you guys seem shocked if it was nothing?" Eve suspected the two.Aicko moved closer to Eve and whispered something to her, "really?!" Eve shifted her gaze to Axel, then glanced at her niece, "she has a crush on Fabian?!" She gushed.While all of their attention shifted to them, Schina was glaring at her friend for spilling the tea about her secret crush. She spotted the sour face of her boyfriend at that time."Hey, Axel. Don't take it too seriously; it was only a simple crush," Aicko encouraged her cousin when she saw him.SchinaandAicko'seyesdartedacrosstheroom,lookingfor&nbs
A month after graduation, Schina landed a well-paying job. She became a game developer in a reputable company in Manila while still striving to be part of a Philippine swimming team. This has been her biggest dream since she was a child, and now she wants to pursue her career.Aicko left the country after graduation to make her parents proud; she turned down her cousin's offer to work for him because she wanted to prove her value, especially to her father, whilst Axel continued to support his girlfriend's desire and help her discover her mother."Hun!" Schina ran towards him upon seeing him again after one month of staying in Manila. The lovers got separated when the manager of HGCI resigned and needed to take over for a month while the new manager was training to do his task. Schina hugs her boyfriend tightly, "I miss you.""I miss you too, hun," he softly replied, while caressing her hair.
“Ahhhh! I can’t hold it anymore! Drive faster!” Schina shrieked to her husband, she was about to labor in just a few minutes. Axel is panicking and blowing the horn of his car to all the cars in front of them, he rolled down the window and shouted at the driver, “give us a way! My wife is about to labor!” he yelled at them. Some car give them way as he drives the car to the nearest hospital around, he quickly parks the car and help his wife to get out from the car. They put his wife on the stretcher as they pushed it inside the emergency room, Axel wants to get inside but the doctor did not allow him to get in. He is so anxious outside and walking back and forth, he is interrupting every nurses that will come out of the room and ask the same question, “how is my wife and my baby?” Yet, the only answer he receives is, ‘they will be alright, please wait patiently.’ He sat on the bench and prayed, AC and Schina’s aunt arrives and saw her c
Aicko arrived in her apartment, “what are you guys doing here?!” She exclaimed upon turning on the lights, seeing her cousin and his wife in her apartment.“Happy birthday!!” they shouted, she forgot that today is her birthday. She became more disappointed when she realized that even Kevin forgets that today is her birthday.She studied that two and saw her cousin is blowing a horn and wearing a birthday hat while her friend is holding a big cake for her even though her tummy is already in eight month.“What’s wrong with you? Why are you crying?” Schina asked her.“Don’t tell me you are crying out of joy?” Axel teased her.Schina passed the cake to her husband and hurry to her friend to lend her shoulder for her, “why are you crying, AC?” Schina is patting her back.“Ke—Kevin is cheating on me!” She burst into cry and drops her backpack on the ground, A
“Where are we going again?!” Aicko exclaimed at her fiancé because they have been going at the same spot again and again in the middle of the forest.The couple were invited by Louisa in a reality show that she is taking part in. It is like a race of couples and whoever wins will win a grand prize worth of half million, Aicko doesn’t like to join the said program but since her fiancé agreed on taking part of it, she have no other choice so she agreed than to see him pairing with Louisa.“She thought that she can take him as his partner in her little trick, no, dear. That will never happen even in your dream,” her mind says and celebrating in victory but she is a bit upset because they can’t see the way out of it.“C’mon, Kevin! We have been walking back and forth in the same spot for long hours,” she is about to cry. She is regretting why she joined this stupid game just for the sake of her fian
“Schina’s POV”My heart is throbbing fast, my body is thrilled with the excitement as I walks down the aisle. My eyes were filled with tears, blurring my vision. I did not expect that this will come into my life, I experience a lot of setbacks in my life as I was trying to figure out which company to apply during my internship. I was being rejected multiple times and I thought that he is my nemesis and the man I have to avoid in the lifetime because ever since he appeared, my life had turns upside down but even thought my plan was to avoid him, I turned my back to him when I saw the important thing that’s missing to me and that is the necklace that my mom made especially to me.My plan had changed a bit during that time, I always think of a way on how I can get my jewelry from him and did all the things till I get it but my plan did not work well because I found myself falling in love with him.I can say that love is like a rosary that fu
“Axel’s POV”I can’t describe how happy I am right now knowing that my fiancee is pregnant! I did not expect that this day will come to my life, and it never came into my mind that I will settle one day and love a very special girl like her. She is the most amazing and interesting girl I ever met in my entire life and my savior.I used to be alone walking in the dark without a light till she came and light up my whole world, I am glad that I found her again.I hurry out of the hospital when my cousin and his fiancé arrives, “where are you going?” AC asked me.“I am going out to buy fruits and food for her,” I explained clearly.“Why do you need to go out if we already brought what you need?” she showed me the basket of fruits she brought.“I need to buy more,” I told her.“Axel! What is wrong with you? Why are you panicking? It’s not like she is
“I thought you like that kind of confession that much,” Axel uttered.“Of course not! I like your proposal more than any other man’s proposal, darling,” she let him know.“But why are saying ‘how sweet’ to them?” He sounded jealous as he complains to her.“I just appreciate them,” she explained but Axel did not accept her simple explanation.“Why are you showing an appreciation to them? Didn’t you appreciate my proposal to you?” he keeps on arguing over a simple thing.Schina is quite annoyed on his reaction, “why are making it big? Are you jealous of them because I told you that I appreciate them?” She ask him directly, she is annoyed that he is acting strange.“I’m not jealous,” he simply respond.Schina knows that he is not telling the truth, “don’t be like this, darling. I don’t want you to repeat you
Schina woke up from a comfortable sleep, she slowly opens her eyes. She is nervous seeing herself in a room, she studied the whole detailed of the room while her mind is trying to recall who brought her here.She is terrified thinking that if her fiancé finds out that she stayed in another man’s room the whole night might ruined their relationship.She get up from bed and sighed in relief seeing that she is still wearing her clothes, “finally! I should get out from this room without letting the man finds out that I am leaving,” she mumbled till her eyes shifted to the picture frame on top of the drawer.“Am I seeing it right?” She surprisingly asks when she recognized the picture of her fiancé in the frame. “Is it his room? I can’t clearly remember that… Oh! He was there last night,” she says happily. Schina did not have a chance to come in his room even before, she turns her back and spotted t
Aicko opens her eyes carefully, she is nervous when she found herself lying on a soft bed and in an unfamiliar room. She is planning to get up quickly till she felt the thin white sheet that covers her naked body!She is terrified as the breathe she is releasing is getting heavier, she didn’t know what to feel but on top of it, she is feeling embarrassed to what happened to her. She bits her lower lip as she is trying to remember how did she ended up sleeping in this unfamiliar place and who brings him in.“Fuck! How did it happened?” she cursed, pulling her hair angrily out of madness.She wanted to cry but she compose herself and searched for her clothes on the ground, “where is my clothes?” she vexed when she did not find her clothes.She sighed and calming herself, “relax, Aicko! Think properly, you can do it. You can escape from this embarrassment if you can find away to get out of here.”Her eyes were
Axel is driving his car back to his condo when he received a notification on his phone that caught his attention, he drives back his car upon seeing the picture of his fiancee having fun in a bar with her friends.“What is she doing there?” he angrily muttered, he quickly phones Kevin while he is driving his car to inform him about this.“Did you know where is my fiancee now?” he sarcastically said, “she is in the bar with my cousin and it is all because of you,” Axel blamed him, “if something happens to her, you will pay,” he added.“Wh—where are they? Send me the address, please?” he heard him begs.Axel ended the call and hurry on the bar, he searched for Schina inside even the music is loud, the place is crowded that makes him hard to find her around; he still continues on searching for her till he bump into a man talking about his cousin.“Excuse me, did you guys know AC?&