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
Elizabeth Because I was offended by what he just said about my mother, without thinking twice, I immediately jumped off the horse which made him curse out bad words from his filthy mouth. “Elizabeth!” he called me as he chased me when I was walking away from him. “Don’t follow me!” I said firmly while my fists are clenching. “I was just telling you the truth! She is not your mother! Believe me!” “What the bloody hell are you saying?!” I said and finally confronted him. “She is my mother! Why do you keep repeating that she is not?!” “Because she is not!” he exclaimed and lurched forward so that he could also confront me back. “How did you know?!” “I have seen the line of your life since you were made until now except tomorrow to death!” he said and inhaled sharply. “You have to understand that.” I held both sides of my head. “I am just completely confused right now,” I said. “Look, I don’t understand anything you are saying, and second, we barely know each other that you hyster
NARRATION “Will you stop that?” Because of Elizabeth’s irritation towards the corny side of Diego, she ended up hitting on his arm and jumping off the horse. He barked out laughter and followed Elizabeth. He just strode slowly when she walked slowly towards a clean spot of grasses. She sat on that spot. “I want to sit,” she announced. “Well, you are sitting down, obviously,” he said, almost sarcastic and teasing her, making Elizabeth hit him again. “Ow! You are so brutal. Do you want me dead?” She glared at him. “I came here to embrace a peaceful environment. If you don’t understand that, then fuck off, Diego,” she hissed. “Why? Don’t you want to acknowledge me as your peace?” “Oh, shut up!” “Bloody fuck, you’re blushing, Elizabeth!” “Stop teasing me!” It was another round of tease and insults. The majority of laughs and teases came from Diego, while the grunts and childish complaints were made by Elizabeth. “I am not childish, you imbecile!” she exclaimed angrily and hit hi
Elizabeth Diego safely returned me to my house. Currently, I am lying down on my bed while staring at the ceiling. Silence prevailed inside my room and many thoughts and voices are in my mind. “I am more powerful than I think of myself,” I mumbled out of my breath. “What does he mean? What did you mean, Diego?” Witches are powerful. They are powerful among the other creatures in this world. And Diego completely believes that I can do more than my healing powers. I wonder how I can activate that. It triggered me to roust off the bed and stand up. I wonder where I last put the book of spells that was owned by my mother. The last thing I remember is that I was hastily stashing it inside her dark room because I was so afraid of the villagers that visited me on that day I summoned the red lady. But right now, I will not embrace my fear. I will conquer it so I would know my strengths and weaknesses… now that I am acknowledging the fact that I am a witch. I lit up the candle lamp in my
“The ball?” Elizabeth exclaimed and her face disgruntled while furrowing her eyebrows. “You’ve got to be kidding me. The queen must have not been true to her words.” Without further ado, Nikita rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “I am telling you. They said it,” she said. “You know the protocols. If a royalty invites you, you should not be refusing them because there will be consequences.” “I know, but I don’t see a reason why I am also included.” “Well, let’s just say that the queen must like you!” “That is very impossible.” My friend slapped her forehead as I remained confused and panicking. I suddenly remembered that the queen mentioned a ball from the other kingdom, but she shyly refused the invitation since the princesses have dismissed her. When I approached her towards the door, she was fidgeting while telling me that the queen requires my presence in the kingdom this afternoon so we can go to the other kingdom and attend the ball with Nikita. My question is --- what a
Elizabeth Nikita only shook her head, but she was grinning as if what I said was ridiculous. I hit her arm that was clinging to mine and chased her flustered face playfully. “What I said was true!” I exclaimed while giggling. “If you are talking about the princesses and other daughters of the royalties on the other kingdoms, they can have all the forms of beauty, but when you have the purest heart among them, then you are the most expensive woman every prince would want -” “Ops, ops,” Nikita said and shushed me with her index finger by putting it on my lips. “I already understand it, so you don’t have to elucidate it elaborately.” “Okay, fine!” I said and pinched her cheek. “I believe in you, so you should also believe in yourself.” We were chatting nonchalantly as we went through the numerous bloody hallways until we reached the family balcony. While laughing with Nikita, the princesses together with the royal queen were already conspicuous at my sight. They are performing embroi
"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