Elizabeth "Elizabeth! Hey!" I heard Nikita's voice from afar while I was getting water from the well. When I looked at her, she was running towards me. My eyebrows furrowed when I saw that she was with Diego who was smoldering while his hands were on his pockets. I sighed and remembered that she left me with Prince Ronald on the day my mother died. But I have the knowledge that she just went away and did not believe in me since I am gravely accusing a prince. And of course she would be tentative to believe in me because I am her best friend. I understood it in the end. I am afraid that she'll be killed if I try to push the truth through. "There you are!" she said worriedly and held my shoulders. "My father said that I should visit you because you are mourning about your mother's death." I smiled weakly. "Thank you, Nikita," I said. "I am fine." "Oh, goodness. I am very sorry!" She pulled my hand to embrace me with a hug. I closed my eyes briefly to feel the warmth of a friend b
Elizabeth The afternoon was approaching, so the sun's rays became hot as the minute passes by. I could even feel through my skin the sultry weather that is prevailing over the kingdom. Yes. My body is being affected by the weather, but my emotive aspect is monopolized by Diego beside me. Different from the first time I met him when I was hyperventilating, right now, I just felt so comfortable. Maybe it was the breathing pattern he makes, his breath hitting barely my skin but making me electrified; his handsome appearance that takes my breath away would also be the beautiful death of every lady, but the utmost thing that is conspicuous to me is the way he stares. He does not just only stare. Using his dark eyes, he was searching my soul. For some reason, my cheeks heat up, and got goosebumps when I remembered how he touched me down there. “U-Uhhh…” I mumbled while stammering. “What do you say? Do you agree with me?” he asked me, a ghost of smile plastering on his lips. My mouth o
Elizabeth I tried… not to look at the two princes who were side by side with the queen. Queen Jonah was in the center of the wooden sofa. I felt flustered by the fact that they are all royalties and they are sitting on a hard surface of a long chair. “U-Uhh, do you want cups of tea?” I asked them and gave a constipated smile. “I would love to serve you.” “No need, darling. We are fine,” Queen Jonah said and reciprocated my smile. “To be honest, we are all here to check on you and to invite you for a special dinner tonight.” “Huh?” Elizabeth mumbled, slightly confused. “What special dinner?” Prince Vio was the one who answered. “Today is my mother queen’s birthday, my lady. She remembered you, so she would like to indulge herself in inviting you,” he said. “If that is okay with you, of course.” Of course, it is not okay! Even smiling and making everything okay even if it is not, I looked at Prince Ronald. And bloody hell, he is looking at me! Shit! Don’t look at me like that! “M
“Have you not understood that I want you gone?” I asked Diego the moment I stepped outside my room and saw him lounging himself while sitting on the wooden sofa.“The only thing I would like to understand is me escorting you to the palace,” he said and smirked. “Do you think I would want to get you hurt?”“What do I look like to you? A kid or a toddler?”“You are my most precious treasure,” he said, taking my breath away. “So even though you won’t like me around, I will still follow you.”I blinked many times after watching him for a while. Why is he like this? And why does it feel like I like it? I do not definitely like him. Except for the fact that he is not my type and I barely know him, he is weird, seemingly arrogant, and invasive! How could I hang out around him?!But, yes, he was bloody stubborn that he kept convincing me to ride his horse so he could escort me to the palace.“Be careful. You don’t want to fall,” he said as he helped me mount the horse.I grunted and rolled my
Elizabeth Diego and I did not speak as we arrived at the palace. He took care in speaking with the royal guards who were at the huge gate and let us in when he told them about me being invited by the royal family. “You should wait here,” I said to Diego when he was tying up the horse on a tree just beside a pavilion in the royal garden. “I’ll be back after dinner.” “Okay,” Diego simply said and surveyed his eyes around my face. “If you need me, just know that I am here.” I smiled because of his courtesy and said, “Thank you. I appreciated it.” I fixed my scarf on my neck before turning my back on him. My eyes automatically went towards the peak of the palace’s structure. It did not stop at the highest top but the moon and remembered the conversation I had with Diego. I wonder what he meant about him being a monster at night and then telling me that he is not now that he met me. Was that a metaphor? Or he is just fond of rhetorical sayings, right? My mouth fell open when I looke
ElizabethMaybe it was that thing I dreaded --- being discriminated against and judged by a high class. What is even worse is I am confronting each one of them.The princesses are looking at me with lousy prejudice in their eyes. The princes were also brightening just by the sight of me. Maybe it was the main reason why the princesses have an ire with me.In reality, sisters are overprotective towards their brothers. The princesses might have thought that I am some stealer who only knows how to do stealth. “Jeany, Zendrel, and Lavenia,” Queen Jonah said in a firm and authoritative voice. “That is not good to say. Elizabeth is a good girl. Treat her with kindness and class, please. Good manners are a good establishment towards dinner.”I could see the seeping annoyance yet professional mother’s care in the queen’s eyes. The sides of my lips curled up and I intertwined my fingers to play with them, grateful because the queen is not what I have thought as a bad one.The king cleared his
Elizabeth “Is it done?” It was the first question Diego said when I went out of the palace. He was waiting for me outside the gates where the royal guards are hindering him from going inside. It’s not like he must wait for me, but it was his assurance before I attended the dinner. “Yeah,” I answered and hugged the scarf around my neck. "I think… they did not like me.” I suddenly remembered the disgusted expressions the royal family had for me except for the princes, the queen, and the king. It felt like I was not welcome. Well, who would feel delighted except honored when you are having dinner with a family who has blue blood? Whatever. I just want to go home. “Do you want to talk about it?” Diego asked me tentatively but still had the guts to check on my condition. “No,” I said and shook my head. “And I don’t want to go home.” What, Elizabeth? You don’t want to go home when you were just thinking about it? This is what I hate about myself. I don’t understand myself either. U
Elizabeth What on bloody Earth? I felt the rushing heat in my cheeks and I could guess that I was very flustered and embarrassed. What does he like about me? My innocence and I am clueless? For some reason, I took it the wrong way, so I slapped his shoulder. “Ow!” he exclaimed and even retreated his shoulder after hissing. “So are you just telling me that I am stupid?” I asked bluntly and slapped his other shoulder. “Hey, do you want to die early?” “I did not mean that!” he tried to explain, but I slapped him again. “Ow! What is with the slaps?!” “You are stupefying me, Diego!” I said. “I am not! You are the one who is thinking about that!” “Stop lying!” We went into a stupid dispute. I did not back down. He also did not back down. It ended up that he was tortured by my hits and accusations, but he kept holding the reins of the horse to keep the animal straight on the road. Well, I could blame myself that I was the one distracting him from focusing on the ride. But after ma
"Wow, congratulations, Jill! Highest ka sa reporting, ah?" komento ng isang kaklase ko nang magsabay kami sa paglalakad sa kalsada. "Ang galing mo rin kasing mag-English. Nakakadugo sa ilong, alam mo iyon?"Tinawanan ko lang siya. "Hindi ko talaga alam kung bakit sa English ko pa kung pwede naman sa delivery of speech, ate," aniko. "Pero thank you po!"Hoooo, nakakapagod kahit isang klase lang ngayong hapon. Marami kasing tanong ang instructor namin sa MSTE-1 tungkol sa topic ng reporting ko, at dahil ayokong mapahiya ay sinagutan ko lahat ng iyon kagaya ng pinag-aralan ko kagabi. I have always been competitive when it comes to academics without creating competitions against anyone. Gusto ko lang na mataas ang grades ko at malayo sa posibilidad na bumagsak ako. Nasa college na ako, kaya kailangan kong pagbutihan, lalo na at kasali ako sa scholarship program ng Cornelia Foundation College. Kumaway ako sa kaklase ko sa second year na pumunta sa waiting shed kung saan ang bus stop. Ako
Maybe it was the fact that I was bothered what happened last night that I was spacing out when I went to the office the next day of work. “Secretary Castro? Are you okay?” an employee asked me when she approached me. “The paperworks you are holding are being blown away from your table.”“Huh?” I said and turned my head to the direction of my cubicle. My eyes widened when I saw that my papers are being blown away from my table that is caused by the huge air conditioner’s fan. It made me curse and ran towards it. “Shit!”The employee also lurched forward to help me get them. She kept raining me with questions if I am okay, or why I have not noticed my paperwork. I just kept nodding because I just want everything to be organized, and yet I a messing it all up. “What about your coffee, ma’am?” the female employee asked me again innocently.“Fuck…” I murmured and dropped all of the paperwork on my table. “Why is my day doing this to me?”Without wasting time, I approached the coffee mach
NARRATION“What do you mean the vampires are alive?!” Queen Jeany exclaimed and stood up from her throne chair. “That is impossible! They are long dead!”Her loud exclamation echoed inside the throne room where all the royalties of Kingdom Monjour are holding a royal conference to discuss some serious matters. The queen is interrogating a village’s hunter, when it informed the guards that he saw creatures that are lurking inside the Dark Forest. Her Majesty was hyperventilating with her navy blue gown, shining silver crown, and expensive jewelries that she had bought from different kingdoms, except her necklace that is owned by her mother queen.The scared hunter that is hugging his bow jumped because of the furious queen. “I-It is true, Your Majesty,” he stammered and gulped intensely. “When I was targeting a reinder from the lake, I was stopped when I saw a pale man in his black clothes. He was showing his sharp fangs and red eyes under a narrow tree. I could still remember
Maybe it was the fact that I was bothered what happened last night that I was spacing out when I went to the office the next day of work. “Secretary Castro? Are you okay?” an employee asked me when she approached me. “The paperworks you are holding are being blown away from your table.”“Huh?” I said and turned my head to the direction of my cubicle. My eyes widened when I saw that my papers are being blown away from my table that is caused by the huge air conditioner’s fan. It made me curse and ran towards it. “Shit!”The employee also lurched forward to help me get them. She kept raining me with questions if I am okay, or why I have not noticed my paperwork. I just kept nodding because I just want everything to be organized, and yet I a messing it all up. “What about your coffee, ma’am?” the female employee asked me again innocently.“Fuck…” I murmured and dropped all of the paperwork on my table. “Why is my day doing this to me?”Without wasting time, I approached the coffee mach
Just like I've said, Viramos is a small town. There was clearly no doubt that what transpired last night outside our boarding house scattered around our batch. "Talagang sinugod si Melanie kagabi?""Naglasing ba naman sa boarding House no'ng Oscar."Nag-igting ang panga ko nang marining ang dalawang classmates ko na nag-uusap sa aking likod. I pretended to be listening to the discussion of our instructor, but the topic behind me is ringing in my ears, distorting my focus on the class. "Absent pa nga siya ngayon, oh? Siguro nahiya.""As in nakita mo talaga kagabi?""Oo naman! Magkatabi lang kaya kami ng boarding house nila Melanie. Nagce-cellphone kasi ako no'n sa terasa, tapos nakarinig ako ng ingay. Sina Melanie na pala-""Excuse me. Pwede bang pakihina ng mga boses niyo? Medyo hindi ko kasi marinig si miss dahil sa inyo."I immediately gazed at Irise who seemingly is now irritated. Hindi na ako nag-aksaya pang tingnan ang dalawang kaklaseng sinaway niya at hinintay na lang ang pin
"Lagi ka talagang aabusuhin dahil sobrang bait mo," sabi ni mama sa akin habang kumakain kami ng hapunan. "Hindi pwedeng ikaw nalang lahat, Jill. Magtira ka naman para sa sarili mo." Nadiin ko ang pagtusok ng kutsara sa karne ng isda dahil sa irita ko. Nakatalikod si mama sa akin dahil nasa upuan ako, habang siya at ang dalawang kapatid ko naman ay nasa lamesa. "Oo, mama. Oo," sagot ko nang matigil siya. Mukhang nahalata niyang ayaw kong pinapangaralan ako ngayon dahil sa pagod kaya natahimik din siya. Hindi sa padabog ako kumain ulit, pero nagpatuloy ako nang nakasimangot. Ramdam ko pa ang tingin ng kapatid kong babae sa akin, pero hindi ko na siya tiningnan pa. Umalis ako sa boarding house dahil gusto kong matahimik ang buhay ko. Tapos paparangalan pa ako rito? Ano, dahil lang sa tumigil ako sa pagtatrabaho at wala na akong naibibigay na pera, gaganituhin na nila ako? Huminga ako nang malalim matapos kong isubo ang panghuling kanin at tumayo rin para ilagay ang nagamit na kubye
I could see through his eyes that he was being affected, especially when he slightly flinched the moment I slid my hand down to his necktie. Without further ado, I grabbed the paper he signed and stood up straightly. He was still motionless while I was flipping my hair, his gaze being serious at the moment and the playfulness has been eradicated after I played with him.“I am sorry to disturb your consciousness, Mr. Montenegro, and take that as a lesson to never mess with me,” I said firmly and turned my back on him, not regretting every word I said.Does he think that I forgot that he insulted me in their first and second dinner in their mansion? If he just knows me, he would know that I don’t easily forgive and I also do not know how to forget. Duh!I rolled my eyes while walking throughout the busy hallways that contained employees who greeted me. I rode an elevator to go to my boss’ office where I know that is having his work time in his office.“Good afternoon, sir,” I greeted wh
Obsession and love are two different things. And Elizabeth would not want to experience chasing a person who can’t even fight for her. But it is even worse for her to destroy herself by loving a person too much. Too much that she would do anything to own him but would hurt other people. Elizabeth hastily opened the door of the office where her cubicle is located. It is opposite the main office of the independent director and just one looking up at the face, she would confront the door of it. But as soon as she sat on her swivel chair, she did not bother looking at her boss’ door. Instead, she placed her both hands on the side of her head, shut her eyes tightly, and hyperventilated because of what happened. Cross would surely be angry about what she did. He might be even believing Hannah instead of his girlfriend, so it is consolidated with a conclusion that he would never go after her. Not to mention the confused expression of the chairman towards her. What about the t
ELIZABETHI could see how Diego flinched through the darkness. Even his black eyes were glowing, and it is still unexplainable how I could still see that. Before he could even step forward when he subtly reacted because of the slap Prince Ronald gave me, I glared at him and shook my head.I already said that he should trust me! Was the idea of him going here bad? He should have not been here!I groaned in pain when Prince Ronald caught my chin again and forcefully made me look at him. He was smirking devilishly and it disgusted me to think that I respected him a lot before when he is this fucked up.“I swear. I will make your life miserable forever,” he said. “I am looking forward for you to do that,” I whispered back.Because I might be doing that to you.He retreated while watching me being seized by the royal guards. The guards started to pull my arms for me to walk. I chose to obey because I do not want to meet with the bruises and cuts on my face again. Nevertheless, I have to b