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
In the middle of the rain, Love is what we might find. Like when you’re sitting on the long chair while waiting for the bus but in the middle of your waiting and the rain, you would find someone who could change your life. I clicked the publish before I kept my phone in my pocket. I’m currently here in our university’s garden since we don’t have a class for our last subject. It’s too early also, the guards won’t probably let me leave during class hour, so I stayed here. My eyes automatically shut when I felt the wind hugging my body. I heard my phone rings, I smiled when I saw that a lot of my readers have read the recent poem I just published earlier. I’m a writer, I write poems and novels ever since I found out that my passion is writing. I won’t deny the fact that a lot of people are reading my pieces on the platform where I’m wr
Paul’s POV “You’re so unfair! I’m still a student for Pete’s sake. Are you f*cking out of your right mind?!” I shouted. I can feel that my hands are trembling while I’m giving my Dad a glare. “Watch your words, Paul!” he said with his serious voice, “You know our business will get massive once you and Tacia will get married!” “Our business is big already, Dad! I will never get married with that girl! You know she’s the reason whymy life became miserable before, and now you want me to get married with her? You’re a worthless Father!” I held my lips when I felt his strong punch on me. I moved my jaw. “I told you to watch your words when you’re talking to me. You looked like your Mother!” I wenttowards him and grabbed his collar as I glared at him more, “Don’t you ever try to mention her here. If I know that I’d end up li
“W-what?” “Just tell me if you want,” he saysbefore he ate his foods again. I can’t take my eyes off of him because of shock. Out of the blue,he’s going to ask me something like that?! “I-I mean excuse me, don’t get me wrong, okay?” he sayswhile laughingwhen he noticed that I’m still looking at him with my mouth open. “I’m simply asking you if you want to help me get rid of the problem I’m facing,” he added that made me somehow breathe freely. I was about to assume that he likes me! “What’s the problem?” I askedout of curiousity. “I actually went to our mansion last night to meet my Dad, unfortunately he just told me to get married. Well, I’m hundred percent against of it because I’m still not ready, and I wanna graduate first,” he explained, “That’s why I’m asking you if you want me to be your
Bavina’s POV “Where are you going? It’s dark outside already,” I heard Shia’s voice while I’m fixing myself, I looked at her. “I’m just going to the mall, I heard there’s a sale in the bookstore, so,” I excused that made her nod at me. I can’t say that I’m going to meet someone. Besides, this will only happen today, so it’s not a big deal. I grabbed my bag and went outside of my room while she went straight in her room. There’s two rooms in our house, so we have our own privacy. *** I looked at the surroundings in the whole coffee shop to find Paul, I smiled when I noticed him waving at me, I walked towards him. “What’s your order?” he asked. I chuckled, “Aren’t you gonna ask me where’s your phone?” He laughed, I gave him his phone.
We’re both silent here in his car. I don’t know how long we’re staying like this. Shia keeps on calling me also but I turned off my phone.“I-I’m sorry, I didn’t expect that they will say those words to you,” he broke the silence with his apology. I didn’t speak for I don’t know what to say.All I know is that his Dad’s and that Tacia’s words hurt my pride. I didn’t also plan to yell at his Dad, I just couldn’t take those words he was saying to me.I don’t do revenge but…“Why me?” I asked out of the blue.“I… don’t know.” I heard his deep breath.“Let’s continue pretending,” I says with a serious tone.I felt his gaze on me but I didn’t waste a second to look at him.“H-Hey, you don---”I didn’t let him finish his line.“You asked me if I want you to be my fake boyfriend, right? Well, my answer is yes. Let’s continue pretending and make sure you won’t get married to Tacia,” I said before I looked at him with a serious eyes.“Give me the contract,” I added. He gave me the contract, I
“What do you mean?” I looked at Bavina, “Even in the university, we’re still going to pretend. If this is the only solution not to get married with Tacia, I’m desperate to do it. I don’t care about what other people would think. Besides, we have a contract, I’m going to pay you everytime.” “Hey, wait, do you really have to do this?” Shia asked. “Do we still have a choice?” Bavina answered her with a question. I stayed silent while the two girls are arguing in front of me. She seems not scared. She seems determined because of the tone of her voice. Well, it’s okay if she’s doing this on purpose or what, all I wanted is not to get married with my ex, Tacia. *** Bavina’s POV When we arrived in front of our house, Shia got off of the car immediately since she’s sleepy already. It’s also so late. “Are you sure you’re okay with it?” he asked that made me look at him. I suddenly thought of it, there’s a part of me that it’s okay since I’m earning and I’m helping him. I’ve seen Tacia’
I can’t avoid myself but to feel nervous while I’m on my way to our seat. I know that Tacia cheated on him because I stalked Paul’s social media. Three years ago, Tacia dumped him because of a guy. Paul said that on his live since I saw it while I was stalking him.“Where did you go? You took so long!” Shia complained as I sat on my chair, I didn’t speak.I looked at Tacia’s direction, our eyes met and she smirked at me before she talked to our classmates. I took a loud deep breath.I grabbed my foods to eat again. I just noticed that our classmates changed their clothes. They are now wearing a sando.If earlier, Paul was just singing alone, now Josh is singing on a second voice while he’s drumming. Josh’s voice is also good, his voice suits for the second voice. No wonder a lot of people are amazed on them. They are full of talents.***I can’t take my eyes off of him while they are talking, they are now sitting while talking to each other and playing with their fans. I smiled when P
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.“