----Back to the present----- I moved to the edge of the bed. I don't want to be near Mr. Shein because it's kinda awkward. I feel like he can see me even though it's very dark in his room. "You're not asleep yet. How's your day?" I heard him ask. I faced the ceiling while holding the blanket. I didn't do anything all day but clean his house. "I just cleaned with Harold. Speaking of, he disappeared suddenly earlier. Where does he go home?" He cleared his throat. "I don't know." He replied, shortly. Is that so? I forgot to ask him earlier. Suddenly, there was silence between us. It was really awkward. I'm feeling him beside me. I'm not really used to sleeping with a stranger. It would have been fine if it was my mother or my brother or at least Shiela, but this time, it's totally different. Well, not at all, since he's my husband on paper, but... sigh. "You're thinking too deeply." Mr. Shein spoke suddenly, so I faced him. I lay sideways on the bed, where I could see his two pairs
What the fvck is my wife thinking? She wants to take me inside her room? What the hell!I'm stupidly waiting here in the room. I'm pretty mad. I wanted to scold her earlier. How can she be this careless? What if I'm someone else?I'm really annoyed with her. Why does she let other man wait inside her room? I was so happy earlier when I saw my shirt on her. I imagine a lot of images of her in my mind wearing my things.But when she told me to fvcking wait for her because she was going to take a shower, I felt like I was going to explode. She's so damn innocent.I can hear water dripping inside. I don't know how I should feel now. I don't know why I'm upset. To her or to myself? Damn it. I can feel my friend. He's really alive.I closed my eyes, trying to calm myself. What was I thinking in the bathroom? I'm sorry, baby.A few minutes passed when she finally came out.She has also changed her clothes. I looked at her all over. There was still a towel around her head, and she was fully d
The next day I went with Harold to town. I'm going home to visit Dave and mom. I think they are back home. Last night, I nervously said goodbye to Mr. Shein because I thought he wouldn't let me. Fortunately, he agreed as long as I took Harold with me.Seatbelt. I sat up straight when Harold came to me suddenly to put the seatbelt on me. "Thank you," I said when he finished putting it on. He just smiled and immediately drove away from Mr. Shein.I would like to ask Harold why he suddenly disappears every time I see Mr. Shein, but I remembered that he couldn't speak.I leaned against the window and saw the students entering the school. I smiled while looking at them. Nothing really makes you happy when you graduate. If money wasn't a problem, I might be an engineer now.When we passed the school, we were about to reach home but we stopped when the road was blocked due to road construction in our area. So they started it? It's good then because the road to us is very bumpy."It looks lik
Lorelay felt that Harold was about to pee where he was sitting. They were in the living room and in front of Mr. Shein is her mother who seems to be interrogating him while Dave has a wide smile while playing on the cellphone given by Mr. Shein. "Brother, what is the password again?" Lorelay's youngest brother asked. Lorelay frowned when she turned to look at their youngest. 'When did they become close?' she asked to herself. When she glanced at Harold, she saw his forced and slow smile at her that made her confused. 'Love, your brother is such a bully.' Mr. Shein silently said while glancing at Dave lying in the sofa while playing to his phone. He still remembered what happened earlier when his wife entered the kitchen. ------------- "You can't fool me mister. What is your relationship with my sister?” He narrowed his eyes at me. I glanced into the kitchen where my wife entered. "Speak or I will punch you." I closed my eyes at what he said. Calm down. He's your brother in law. Be
"I'm leaving." That’s what Harold wrote in the piece of paper. He has been quite since we returned home. "Mr. Shein is upstairs.” He wrote again and so I nodded. I went back to what I was doing, I was planning to bring food to Mr. Shein upstairs. He must be hungry. I heard Harold's footsteps walking away. As long as I know I have someone with me, I feel at ease. I just don't want to be alone. I feel like I can't breathe. I took the food to the room. There, I saw Mr. Shein lying on the bed and seemed to be deep in thought. I let out a deep breath before going inside. "I brought you food." I said. I didn't get any response from him so I approached the bed. "Are you alright?" I asked him, calmly. He didn't answer. I looked down because I think Harold told him what happened at home. I feel guilty. "Can I borrow your clothes? Ahm- I want to take a bath.” Mr. Shein didn't answer but I felt him get up to get some clothes. I sat on the bed waiting for him to come back. I literally don’
I'm lying in bed now. I am with Mr. Shein. I'm looking at the front. I heard his weak sigh. "You want to study again?" I immediately looked at him. And think—the truth is that I want to graduate. It's just that we don't have any money. "It's my father's dream that I finish school so I want to finish but I'll save first." I said. Mr. Shein suddenly became silent, so I faced him. "Why did you ask?" I closed my eyes when he touched my cheek. This is one of the things that I noticed about Mr. Shein. He's touchy. "I can support you love. You can study again." I'm surprised. I immediately returned my gaze to the ceiling. "You can continue your studies. I will take care of the tuition, the pocket money, and everything you will need. I will also take care of supporting your family." The truth is that I was shocked by what he said. I didn't react immediately and it seems I was still processing what he said. He has helped me so much. He paid the hospital expenses. It seems too much if
Harold did accompany me to school. As Mr. Shein said, I enrolled in a university here in town. I told Harold that I'm fine even at the community college because the tuition is free only for projects and the fare will be spent, but he said that it was ordered by Mr. Shein to enroll here so I don't any choice. We are going home, we just finished eating at the cafeteria earlier. I don't even know if Harold is okay because earlier when I took him to the grocery store, I saw him grimacing slightly. I wondered if he was used to such things or not. I was just looking outside. That's where I focused my full attention as we drove the way home to Mr. Shein. I saw a kitten on the road. "Oh no! Stop it Harold." I said and stopped him. I immediately got out of the car and went to the black kitten. "Poor you. Where is your mother?" he just made a "meow" noise and licked my hand. Awww. How cute. I faced Harold. "Can I take her home? I will take care of her." I told him. I saw on Harold's face th
The next day, I saw Harold in the living room. He had a frown on his face while holding a piece of paper. My eyes fell on his hand. "I'm hungry," my lips parted in what was written. After he was rude yesterday he will be like this? Why! I put Oprah down and she immediately ran around the big house of Mr. Shein. Speaking of, I didn't catch up with him after waking up. "Wait there. I stayed up late last night." I told him and it was true because my husband was talking to me last night. I think we slept late. When I turned to look at him, I saw his strange smile. "What are you thinking?" 'I'm not thinking of anything bad.' His letter. I narrowed my eyes at him. Why do I feel like he's lying? "What do you want?" I opened the fridge. It's empty. I turned to Harold. "Just eggs and fried rice let just it this first. The fridge is empty." I said. He immediately wrote. "Okay. We're going to buy groceries after." He says. I was in awe of Harold for a while. It's not that I don
"Ma'am, are you out yet?" Lorelay nodded to Arman, one of the waiters at the club where she worked. When he got down to the ground floor, he saw Mr. Shein with another woman. It is sitting while holding someone."Just every Saturday," Lorelay said weakly and tried to get the pain out of her system.Lorelay continued to leave, ignoring the eyes that followed her out.He immediately hailed a taxi, and drove to Zee's house. When he got there, he found only helpers. Zeebal did not rebel. 'Is he still mad?' Lorelay asked absently as she attended to the assistants in preparing their suitcases."Sister, please wake up the children." Now they are leaving, back to their old house but the kids don't want to leave their daddy Zee's house.Everyone looked at Sico who frowned as he looked at the suitcases scattered in the living room."Sico, you understood mom, didn't you?""Mama, I don't want to leave. I'm only with daddy Zee." Sico cried to Lorelay. When Lorelay looked at Rico, she saw the same
"WHERE ARE YOU?" Zee asked Lorelay as she saw her sneak away after putting the twins to bed in the bedroom."Don't make a noise Zeebal. I'm leaving. Just going to buy something." Lorelay was disgusted with the man who couldn't stop smiling while facing her.'She's scary yet sexy,' Zee said softly in her mind as she looked at Lorelay who was about to board a taxi.It's like Timang leaning against the door and looking at the taxi leaving. He spent a minute there before deciding to enter.Zee let out a deep breath and lay down on the sofa. Just then he realized something that made him wake up suddenly. "That brat! Don't tell me I'll be the one left behind by his children?" Annoyed, he chased Lorelay outside but it was too late because the girl's taxi was already leaving.He angrily kicked the rock only to be hurt. Dejected, he entered the house again and threw himself on the sofa."I'm so freaking tired." Zee softly whispered in the air while looking at the photo hanging on the wall of h
The music inside is loud, the lights are changing. Lorelay was inside the office, not even reviewing what she had to pass on to her boss this month when a staff suddenly ran to her and called her."Ma'am Lorelay, someone is fighting downstairs." Lorelay felt dizzy and was forced to stand up to go downstairs. It's a headache that he always settles other people's fights. 'Where are the guards?' he's only been starting here for three months but he seems like he wants to give up.When he arrived at the ground floor, the two men involved were already separated. In this bar, it is not their business to sell bodies to their Entertainers. If they want to serve their clients, the bar is out there.All extra service is a decision of the staffs and if many clients force them and they don't want it, they won't think twice about kicking the client out of their bar so Lorelay is satisfied with her job."Ma'am, I think you are stressed." The bartender laughed as Lorelay leaned against the island cou
"YOU ARE COMING?!" Zee couldn't hide the smile on her lips when Lorelay told her that they would come back to Luzon with her. Her parents are sending Zeebal back to them because of personal matters that Zee is trying to escape from.“Yes. I'm preparing our plane ticket bill. Actually, I thought that we would go next because we would just go by ship to save money." Lorelay said that they are having a hard time budgeting the rest of their money."I'll take care of your plane tickets," Zee presented to Lorelay, which Lorelay immediately frowned at. “Stop Zeebal!” He said this to his friend. Zee's lips tilted because he knew that the girl was ashamed of him."You're a family to me. You children and auntie Lorena. I consider you family." Zee tells Lorelay that she was ignored.'You have helped me and Zee a lot. It's embarrassing,' said Lorelay in her mind."I know you will insist that we go together, so go ahead, I'll buy plane tickets later."Zee's smile widened when the woman said that.
"Brother, is this where they say is a famous restaurant? Why is there no store?” Dave frowned when he asked Lee because he was still hungry and Lorena's restaurant is the most famous restaurant in Valencia that the two of them even thought about."Yeah. They say it's here but it looks like it's closed," the two were about to leave when they heard someone inside so Lee and Dave looked at each other and decided to go ahead. They found a child inside who was jumping up and down with a cookie and a chocolate bar in his hand.Zee was stunned to see the people who entered. Lyrico also ran to Zee and hid behind her. The two men looked at each other when they saw the boy. 'Sister?' Dave said in his mind while looking at Rico who was peeking from behind Zeebal.'Lorelay,' Lee said in his mind as he met the boy's blue eyes. "Yes? What do you need?” the two immediately lost sight of the boy and looked at Zee."Is Lorena's Restaurant here? We would have eaten here." Lee said."Oh yes, right here.
-5 years after-"Mommy!" I'm almost at a loss for what to do, especially since I don't know what to do first. First, I still have to work because my aunt and I have sold our place here because of her hospitalization. We are still in debt.My auntie is diabetic so she has maintenance insulin since the last few months. But before that we went back to the hospital.The twins are already studying and we have almost no money left to meet our daily needs. There were more bills for water, electricity and the remaining savings of auntie and I barely fit for the next month."Mama, it's fine. I'll be the one to help Musico with his assignments." I smiled at Lyrico."Why? Is that difficult?" I asked the two. My naughty daughter Sico short for Musico smiled at me and Lyrico shook her head."No mom. Just pay attention to Sico." When I looked at Sico, he stood up laughing and ran to me. "I love you, mom. I'm sorry." He said and returned to the twins who were frowning at him.Between Sico and Rico,
"Lorelay, child!!" auntie called me. We were in his carenderya and I was in the kitchen because I was washing a lot of dishes and I left the twins outside.I was in a hurry to get out, and I was like a statue where I stood when I saw the unexpected visitor.Shiela holds Musico and Jax holds Lyrico. I gasped and tears welled up in my eyes when I saw them smiling happily at me."Well!!!" Shiela's voice echoed and handed Musico to Kay auntie before running to me and hugging me."I miss you beees!!" I was crying while returning his hug because when I left, we didn't talk before.I just told him to leave me alone and respect my decision. I just told him the place I was going, and I thank him for not telling Mr. Shein where I am."Oh! Continue that at your house. Let's put it away so we can go home," said auntie. First I introduced Shiela and Jax Jay auntie Lorena and this to them as well.Jax helped me wash up because Shiela was watching over the two toddlers who giggled every time Shiela
"El, look at your son!!" Zeebal stressed to me while looking at my son Musico who was crawling on the floor because he wanted to come near me."It's Lorelay and not El," I said laughing as I sat down and greeted my daughter who was giggling as she approached me with open arms."It's the same! Lorelay starts with letter L that makes you as El (L)." I didn't respond to Zee's logic because I'm the only one who will be poured into it."Son, you are defiled." I said when I saw Musico's dress that looked brown even though it was white."Your babies are weird," Zee said grimacing but smiling when Lyrico crawled up to her and held her leg as if she was loading her.They crawl at their 7 months. That's when the babies really started to crawl, but I agree with what Zee said. My babies are not weird, they are just talented."Don't you have anything to give birth to now that you're here?" I asked him while mixing Musico's milk."Just finished. I'm sick of looking at other people's fo-keh. I hope
"Zee, you are like a father to those two handsome babies," Mia- my lovely Ob-Gyn who gave birth to me said with a smile. I am currently signing the paper for the birth certificate of both. Lyrico Shein and Muico Shein."Musico likes me," Zee said happily because he was sleeping soundly with her while Lyrico was not. When Zee picks him up, he will suddenly cry so he puts it down immediately or gives it to Auntie."How are you feeling beautiful mommy?" I laughed at what Mia said. He is also a volunteer from St. Heaven Hospital together with Zee. They were only supposed to be in Harver for six months but they submitted an application to move here in the province.The owners of Heaven and Harver are brothers and as far as I know, Zee's brothers are the owners of these two hospitals, so it's no wonder that they and Mia got through easily."I feel fine, Doc." I said smiling. Tomorrow at two o'clock we will be able to leave here so I am very excited to go home with my two children."I have g