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“Call me when you arrived there, okay?” Shia reminded me, I nodded. “Let me know when you get there,” Paul says, I nodded. I grabbed my bags that Paul is carrying. They took me here in the bus station, even though Paul wanted to go there with me, he can’t do anything because he have something to discuss with his Dad. “I’m going now,” I say. They both nodded at me. I gave Paul a peck kiss on his lips before I turn around. “Hey, how about me?” Shia asks, I turned my head to look at Shia and raise my ring finger to her before I get in the bus. *** After 4 hours of ride, I finally arrived in our province. The trees in the surroundings are filled with christmas lights. I smiled when I felt the wind hug my body, this is what province feels like. I feel like I’m breathing freely. Even though I go here twice or thrice a year, I always feel that I’m safe here. I sat on the long chair while I’m waiting for my Dad to fetch me here in the plaza. I smiled when I look at the church in fron
“What are you doing here?” I ask when I went outside of our house to see him. “I told you I missed you,” he answers, I rolled my eyes. I pulled him and we went inside my room because I’m afraid that my parents might see him. I’m glad that Shayne is not here since she went to her friend’s house. “Is this your room?” he asks while he’s looking around, I just nodded. “How did you know my address?” I ask. “I asked Shia, then I tracked your location,” he says, my eyebrows met. “Did I tell you to go here?” I ask. He smiled sweetly, “My girlfriend is so sweet,” he says sarcastically that made me laugh. He patted the bed beside him, so I sit beside him, he hugged me while he’s sniffing my neck. I smiled. He looks like a kid. “You missed me that much?” I ask while laughing, he nodded while he’s sniffing my neck. I felt his tongue licking my neck, I pushed him a little. “Are you insane? They might see us!” I say. He chuckled before he stood up to close the door. “Shall we?” he asks a
“Whoah, are you serious? That’s for Bavina? What did you see to her? That’s insane!” Shayne says that made Paul laugh. “Actually I never planned to release that song. I wrote that but at the same time, I want her to listen to this song, only her because I wrote the song for her only,” he says, “But since you’re her sister, I think there’s nothing wrong if I let you listen to it,” he added. “Aren’t you feel ashamed that you rejected him?” Shayne asks me. “You’re a gossiper,” I say that made him pout. “I know something to play from your songs,” Shayne says. “Really? Can you play it?” Paul asks. Shayne nodded before she get the guitar from Paul. We spent an hour jamming while we’re waiting for my parents. Usually they get home by 6pm and let their workers do their job until 12am. “I thought you’re going to spend the christmas with your Dad?” I ask while he’s playing with my hair from behind. We’re currently here in my room, waiting for 12am to welcome the christmas. “He told me t
“Take care on your way,” Dad reminded us as we went outside of our house. “Visit here again next time, Paul,” Mom spoke to Paul, he smiled. We’re going back to Maynila now and celebrate the new year there with our friends. “Are you still mad?” Shayne asks him that made me and Paul laugh. “Does he looks like he’s mad? He was just so dramatic,” I say that made both of them frown. “Off you go to get in Maynila earlier. Take care,” Mom says, we both nodded. “Take care as well, if you need anything, just call me,” Paul reminded them. “No, you don’t have to worry, Paul. We appreciate your offer but we’re still earning and alive,” Dad joked, Paul laugh. “And healthy,” Dad and Mom says, I smiled. “We’re going now,” he says before he hugged my parents. *** “What do you think about them?” I ask while we’re still on our way. He glanced at me. It’s getting dark outside, it seems like we’re going to stay the night in his condo since we might get there at 8pm. The traffic is so heavy ear
“OMG, Bavina, you’re hereee!” We both turned our head, a wide smile formed on my lips when Janine hugged me. “I missed you so much, how was the province? Did your sister like my gifts? Tell me!” she says with her excited voice. “Hey, Janine, do you know that I can sue you? You’re tresspasing, learn to knock!” Shia complained to Janine but she just ignored her. “Yeah, she liked your gifts,” I say to Janine. “Well my christmas was great, there was nothing to do with it, I actually enjoyed the christmas since Tacia talked to me last time,” she says. “Yeah, right. So my guts are correct, you’re using Bavina, you’re a spy, and you’re fake!” Shia says. “What did she say?” I ask Janine without paying attention to what Shia said. “She ask if I can help her to ruin your relationship with Paul since we’re close al---” “What do you mean close? Just because you’re talking to Bavina, you two are close already? Don’t be feeling close, Janine!” Shia cut her lines by saying that. “Can you sto
I can’t remove my smile on my face while I’m editing my novel. I talked to the publishing house after I made up my mind and I accepted their invitation. I informed my readers about it which made them happy, the others are keeps on messaging me that they can’t wait to buy my first physical book. It’s been three weeks since I started editing my novel, we became more busy, so we really can’t hang out like before. There are times that after the classes, I will go home immediately to continue editing. If you’re going to ask what happened to our new year, it’s just a normal day for me except for the fact that Josh bought a lot of fireworks. We just had a small dinner that night. I didn’t even enjoy the new year as I was busy editing my novel since I don’t want to make my publishing house wait for me. I also want to finish this early to publish the book early as well. I submitted the outline of my novel to the publishing house already, so I’m now editing my chapters. This is just makes
I fixed myself when I finally wore my sandals. I stood up and walk towards the big mirror before I smiled at myself.Today is the valentine’s day, of course I wore a red dress. There’s a color coding, so I wore red.Red if you’re in a relationshipYellow if you’re in love or have a crushBlack if you’re bitterMy dress is just simple. Actually there are events earlier in our university but we didn’t attend it. Actually, this is my first time to attend a valentine’s event in our university as I want to watch Paul later.“Are you insane?” I ask while laughing. Shia wore a pink dress!“Is this not allowed?” she asks. Is pink in the choices?“Why are you wearing red? Are you sure that you’re in love?” she joked, I laughed a little.“Let’s go,” I say.Paul won’t fetch us since they are in the stadium already. Janine texted me earlier that she’s in the university already and she’s waiting for us.We get in their car. Shia’s mom bought their family driver for him to take us in the university
After 6 years…“Understood?” I ask.“Yes, Ma’am.” I smiled when all of them answered me.“You may now dismissed,” I announced as I saw that it’s exact 4pm already.Everyone left the room except the seven students who are in charge to clean the room for the whole week.I’ve been teaching officially in this school for two years. After I got my licensure as a LPT, I applied immediately to provide our basic needs.After they cleaned, they said their goodbye to me. I’m teaching secondary education, third year to be exact, and I’m an english major.A lot of things changed in my life after six years which is I took it as an advantage for me to focus on my goals especially now that I’m not providing my only needs only.“Mommy!” I looked at the door when I heard a cute voice from outside.A smile plastered on my face when I saw Pauline, my daughter.“Hi, baby, how’s school?” I ask as I kneel down to give her a hug.“Look, Mommy, I got 10 stars earlier,” she says before she raised her two arms
I smiled when I saw Aeron and Josh, they are going to stay here to welcome the new year.“Uncle Aeroooon!” Pauline shouted before she run towards Aeron.It’s been days but it feels like they knew each other for so long because Pauline is really close with Josh and Aeron already.We’re currently here in our rooftop while waiting for the new year. It’s 11pm already but Pauline is still jolly.“We’re here, b*tches!” Janine shouted while walking towards us.She went to me and hug me.“You’re overreacting again, Janine!” Shia complains.“Why do you care?! Mind your own business!” Janine fired back, I laugh a little.They walk towards Josh‘s and Aeron’s direction since the beers are there already to celebrate the new year. I stopped when I saw who arrived next.He smiled at me.“Hi,” he says, I smile.“Aren’t you mad?” I ask, he laugh as he shakes his head.“I’m happy for you, Bavina. You know that I have nothing more to ask but to see you happy,” he says, I smiled and hugged him.“Ethan, I
“I won, Janine. Give me the half million!” Shia says.“Me too!” Josh and Aeron says, I raised my eyebrow.“Bavina! Why did you betray me?! If you didn’t comeback to him, I should’ve won!” Janine complains to me. My eyebrows arched.“We had a bet if you two will go back to each other. Since you came back to each other, me, Shia, and Josh are the winner,” Aeron explains, I glared at them.“You’re not a kid anymore!” I scolded them but they ignored me.After I thought wisely if I could accept him again, the four made a bet already. Wow, they are a good friends!We told them about our relationship already, everyone is happy, except for Janine who lost the bet.“There’s no back-out on this group, Janine!” Aeron teased Janine. She frowns.“Give me your bank accounts, half million is just coins for me. Do you want own land? Resort?” she asks to the three that made us laugh.“I want airplane!” Josh answers that made us laugh again.“I want boyfriend!” Shia yelled.“You won’t get a boyfriend!”
I suddenly stood up when I heard Pauline’s loud cry from our room, I put my clothes on immediately as I run to her.“Mommy!” I hugged her when I saw her red face.“What happened?” I ask while I’m wiping her tears.“I thought you and Daddy left me here,” she answers while crying, I hugged her again.“Mommy and Daddy slept on Uncle Josh and Uncle Aeron’s room, sorry,” I say.He wasn’t contented of what happened in the bathroom last night and we had a round two on the bed. Because of tiredness, I fell asleep there!“Stop crying, Mommy is here,” I comfort her.“Where’s Daddy?” she asks.“I’m going to call him, stay here, okay?” I utter, she nodded.Paul is still sleeping.“Hey, mister, wake up!” I say as I removed his blanket.My eyes widen when I saw his thing. That’s how big his thing is?! It became more big than before!I notice his look at me, I look away as I turned around.“Get dress, your daughter is waiting for you,” I say before I left the room to go to our room.As Paul went in
“Come here,” I spoke to Pauline. She sit in our middle.I look at Paul, I can see that he’s nervous but I gave him a smile to calm him.“Do you still remember how I described your Father?” I ask Pauline.She nodded, “He’s a singer, handsome, and loyal.”“What do you want to do now that you know some details of your Father?” I ask, she look at the sky like she’s thinking of the answer. I glanced at Paul, his eyes are getting red while he’s on Pauline’s back.“I want to see him and ask him why he’s not here. I’m five years old already but I haven’t seen him,” she answers with her low voice.“Are you mad at him?” I ask.She shakes her head, “No, Mommy. If Daddy has a reason, I don’t think I’ll be mad at him. Does Daddy still love us?”I slowly nodded, “He loves us, baby.”“Where is he now?” she asked while looking at me. I stared at his face.“B-behind you…”She turned her head immediately to see it, she stand up when she saw Paul.“P-Pauline…”Pauline’s tears fell from her eyes while st
Paul’s POVI couldn’t sleep last night because of what Pauline said while she’s sleeping. I can hear her voice despite the silence in our room. Her calling me Daddy makes me feel like she’s not mad at me despite what I’ve done from her and her Mother.I’ve been wanting to tell her that I’m her Father but I’m still scared, what if she won’t accept me? I’ve been wanting to hear her calling me ‘Daddy’ but the moment I’ve heard her, it felt like a dream, and instead of being happy, I felt something inside me aching and feel sorry for her especially for Bavina.Hearing my daughter calling me Daddy didn’t make me happy, it made me determined to prove to Bavina that I won’t run away from her again, and this time… I will be the great and happiest Father and husband for the both of them.I just want both of them to accept me, I have nothing more to ask.I sigh loudly. I look at my phone when it rings. The center is calling me again.“Hello, sir? Do you ha---”“No, I don’t have. Just tell him
Everything became clear to me because of what Aeron and Josh told me.He have been watching me all the time while I’ve been cursing him for making me live in h*ll. While I was hating him for abandoning me and the child, he was having a hard time to see me suffering.I don’t know who’s much worse between us. Him who knew everything from the very start but he just watched me suffer alone or me who didn’t know his side.I sigh loud while I’m looking at Pauline who keeps on giggling because Josh and Aeron are playing with her. Their concert will be later tonight, so they still have time to play with Pauline. Paul didn’t let them go outside for them to watch us and play with Pauline for her not to get bored here.“Mommy! Mommy!” Pauline run towards me when Aeron tried to catch her, she hugged my knee that made me laugh.“Don’t tickle me!” Pauline complains but Josh carried her and put her beside Aeron. I can hear her giggles in the whole room.After an hour, Paul came with our lunch, so I
I opened the door when I heard the doorbell. It seems like Paul is here already since he texted me earlier that he’s going to visit Pauline.I saw his wide smile while he’s holding a cake and gift on his hands, he’s holding a flower as well. I opened the door widely to make him go inside but he handed me the flowers without stepping his feet to go inside.I looked at him, he gave me a this-flower-is-for-you look.“This flower is for my thank you for letting me meet my daughter,” he says, I force myself to smile before I get the flower.He went inside and greeted Pauline. Pauline became loud and jolly when she saw Paul. I watched them talking while Paul is giving his gift to Pauline.They are really alike, Pauline got her cheeks on me but it’s obvious that most of the parts of her face are from Paul.“Mommy, look! He gave me a gift!” Pauline said lively before she raised the gift, I smile and nod my head.I look at the red roses he gave me, I sniffed it to smell the flower which made m
“Mom, we’re going to have a vacation next week for the christmas,” Pauline says, I glanced at her as I smiled and nodded at her.“Oh, that’s good, where do you wanna go? Uncle Dad wants to have a vacation with us,” I say.Ethan is planning to take us somewhere Pauline wants, Ethan told me about it last week.“Mommy, does Uncle Dad likes you?” she asks, I turned my head to see her again. Shia even stopped from doing her reporting.She’s staying here as she feel bored in her condo.“Who said that to you? Uncle Dad is just being kind to us, baby,” I answer before I pinch her cheeks.“Then why did he told you to marry him?” she asks innocently. Shia and I look at each other. I glared at her when she’s forcing herself not to laugh.“Go and play now, baby,” I say without answering her question.I throw the ballpen I’m holding to Shia that made her laugh. Shia and Janine already know that Ethan liked me, they just stayed silent before because me and Paul were together back then.After a few
We’re watching Pauline playing with other kids here in the park. They are running while they are playing, I can hear her laughs and giggles from here.“She looks happy,” Paul says.“Yeah, she is,” I answer without looking at him. We’re sitting on a blanket that he brought while we’re on the grass.Yeah, Shia tricked me. She pranked me, only to see my daughter holding Paul’s hand. I don’t know when they started talking and they agreed to do this st*pid thing!I’m a bit guilty about what happened from the past knowing that I know his side now, but I don’t know how to start.“I should bring her more often here, then.” I look at him while he’s looking at Pauline. He turned his head to see me, he smiled at me.”I don’t care if you don’t want to see me, but I want to do everything to make my daughter happy. And I know that this can make you happy too,” he says, I look away.I hugged myself when the wind hugged me, the sky is getting dark, so the others are fixing their things to go home.“