Chapter 96: Lies

Yannie Ace Ruiz

"Are you not coming with us, Ate?"

"Yeah, Ate. Are you really okay with leaving you and Kuya James here? What about us there?"

"We won't have an Ate beside us when we sleep."

It feels like something squeezes my heart as I watch and listen to Yuri and Yumi packing their things.

I don't want to be separated from them, but I really don't know what else to do. I want to run to Josh's Mom right now and beg her to stop tormenting my family, but... something inside me is holding me back from doing that, because if I give up on Josh's Mom, it means I'm letting Josh go from my life.

"Don't worry, everything will be alright," I told my siblings.

"How, Ate? They don't even want us to live here anymore. And we don't have any money left because dad and mom don't have jobs anymore," Yumi said sadly.

I smiled faintly at my siblings. "Just trust that everything will be okay." I hope.

Moments later, my phone rang loudly with an incoming call from an unknown number. My heart raced with