CHAPTER 12I was so tired from chasing Ryker and slapping him, so we decided to go back to the gazebo where our classmates and friends were. Maybe they were already done eating. Gosh, maybe there won’t be any more delicious food left.“Did I tire you out?” he asked. I glared at him.“What do you think? You tired me out from tickling me, you know I don’t like being tickled like that. I almost couldn’t breathe because of you. And look! We haven’t even gone swimming in the sea yet, and I’m already dirty, Sullivaño!” I complained while we were still walking slowly on the sand because I could barely walk anymore.“It’ll go away later. I’ll massage you if you want?”“Free? I’m up for it if it’s free. I don’t have any money,” I said, hoping he’d agree because my body really ached.“No! Do you think there’s still free stuff now? There’s no free stuff now, Aubree Lynn,” he said.I pouted because I thought I could get away with the word “free.” Oh well, in this time, things have changed, includ
CHAPTER 13I rolled my eyes again, especially when I saw this guy's face. He really loves it when I'm always frowning.When I stare at him, he avoids my gaze, but you can see the corners of his lips lifting, trying to hide a smile.He's really happy to see me follow his wishes, like wearing this rash guard that makes me look like a spring roll because it's so tight."Hi sexy!" I heard a guy whistling at one of my classmates. If I was wearing a bikini, someone would definitely be doing that to me, calling me sexy.I am sexy, right?I ran my hand over my body, wrapped up like a spring roll wrapper, or rather, fabric, and I just stomped my foot in frustration at my situation.But the other one just kept smiling.He was sitting on the sand, and so was I, but I didn't sit next to him because even the perfume he used, I didn't want to smell because of my anger at him.He pouted and pointed for me to sit next to him, but I just winked and rolled my eyes. I turned my attention back to watchin
Chapter 14"Didn't I tell you this mall is beautiful?" Rowela greeted me as we arrived at the mall she said was owned by the Baltimoore."It's just a sad the young model who's their son isn't here in Cebu, he's in Negros Oriental." She added. I laughed, this witch is so updated on Baltimoore, though she already told me she had a crush on the model and she actually has a picture of him in her wallet, for remembrance, she said."That's right, their mall here in Talisay Cebu is huge, and we've been walking around for a while now. We haven't bought anything yet because we're enjoying eating first, before we buy snacks and soft drinks later for our drinking session." I said.Our classmates also had their own plans to walk around the mall, and we just told them to meet at the fast food near the exit so we can all wait there.They're old enough now, so they know what to do if they get lost, just make sure they can still ride the van for free, the one Ryker's uncle let us use, when it's time
Chapter 15The Man Who Breaks My HeartWe were chatting and teasing each other while swimming in the pool. It was already evening, so we couldn't swim in the sea anymore, what if we get swept away or drowned, it's scary to swim at night.Especially now that there's drinking, we really can't swim in the sea anymore because it's already night, and there's a lot of food lined up in a small basket near the pool, so if we want to eat, we can just get some from there."Imagine, the Sullivaño family is so kind, we're staying at their resort for free, and imagine all the food the chefs are cooking for us, since yesterday, we haven't been hungry at all!" Rowela said."That's right…" everyone agreed.But me? Yes, the Sullivaños are kind, but the one I know? He's probably only kind when he's asleep, none other than Ryker."Hey, wake up!" See… even if this idiot is asleep, he's still not possessed by kindness."Why did you splash me with water, you ruined my meditation!" I said angrily, and splas
CHAPTER 16I woke up to someone holding me tightly. I moved, but winced in pain from my lower body.What happened?It felt like I had been beaten several times before being left alone. I closed my eyes tighter, trying to remember what had happened.Again, I felt someone holding me, and they were crying? I opened my eyes and was shocked to see who was beside me."Ryker?" I called out his name."What's wrong with you? Are you crying?" I tried to move my leg away from him, but I couldn't help but cry out in pain. "Ryker, hey, are you okay?" I called out to him again."It's my fault! I'm sorry," I furrowed my brow. I tried to lift his head, but he was just looking down near my chest."Why? Did something happened?""Don't you remember?" I was taken aback."W-What do you mean?" I was nervous about my own question."I couldn't stop myself. We made love last night, Aubree. I'm such an idiot. Don't you remember?"I shook my head at his question while thinking. We were both still lying in bed,
Chapter 17We had just returned from Cebu and finished the farewell party, but some people were already planning to visit other places as long as they were with the same batch. I welcomed the idea of others who weren't there last time wanted to join.But I refused. I needed to focus on my final thesis and other requirements for graduation, and I had to find a job right away. Besides, I was tired from the party.I wanted to avoid those gatherings, especially after what happened to me that very day. Something happened between Ryker and me.Ryker Matt Sullivaño, a man I never thought I would be with. The famous playboy of this school, and I fell for him."You're spacing out again, thinking about something, you witch? Share if you can, otherwise, you'll end up talking to yourself." Rowela's voice brought me back to reality. I rolled my eyes at her last statement.We were at the soccer field, hanging out, sitting on a bench with a circular cement table. Our professor was late for the afte
Chapter 18"Maybe after our graduation, you won't pay attention to me anymore." He hugged me from behind."Maybe you're the one who won't pay attention to me anymore, Aubree.""What reason would I have to not approach you? Didn't you say you'd take me out tomorrow? We'll celebrate together. So I'll really approach you to confirm, because what if it's all just a drawing and you won't fulfill your promise to take me around your entire hacienda?"Yes, next week is our graduation, the batchmates of this year. So far, my plans have turned out well. I have a job waiting for me in Manila, with someone my mom knows.Since there were no more classes, just graduation practice, and Ryker's parents were in the states for vacation, he brought me here to their house. I told my mom, but I didn't say that I was with Ryker, the son of the boss where they work.Because she might wonder why Ryker and I were together.After we had lunch, he took me to his room on the second floor to watch movies.I thoug
Chapter 19"OMG! This is it, pancit!" Like me, Rowela and I were ecstatic, finally, this is the graduation we've been waiting for.I'm truly grateful to God and my parents for their unwavering support in my studies for everything I've achieved today. And my next step now is to improve my work so I can give my parents a good life.They are the reason why I strive in my studies, even though I didn't receive any awards in school, the fact that I received my diploma wholeheartedly is a huge achievement for me."Even if we're far away, we should still text each other, okay?" Jenisa said."Of course we should still keep in touch, even if fate takes us to different worlds." I chimed in.I noticed my mom waving, so I excused myself from my classmates to go to her and dad who were sitting on chairs. The ceremony was held in our school auditorium.I looked around to find someone I've been looking for since earlier. I texted him, and still no reply, I ran out of load so I couldn't call him."Whe
“Ryker!” Why does it hurt? Why does it hurt a little every time she says my name? Is it because I'm right, that I've known her for a long time and I still don't know her? Is that what love is like? “Wh-why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me you don't remember? Why? Why didn't you fight for me back then? We could have been happy now. You gave up so quickly on what we had. Because if it were me? I could fight for you even if you forced me to love someone else.” While the person in front of me was telling me who I was in her life, my heart suddenly became happy because my dream was right, that I had someone I loved before. But I don't want to force myself to remember my whole identity because I'm content with what Aubree just said, I'm sure of her that we have a past. That she loves me and I love her, I only ask the Lord for one thing, that I would be able to remember. I also found out that baby Freya is my daughter, that's why… my heart beat differently when I saw her and
I just stared at my secretary. I didn't know what kind of magic she used to make me focus on her. If she looked at me, I would avoid her. There's just one thing I don't understand, every time I see her, I see anger in her eyes and disappointment for reasons I don't know, and if I force myself, my head would ache, and if I try to remember, I would just find myself unconscious. When I see her getting angry at me, it's like she's known me for a long time and I've known her for a long time too, but no matter how hard I try, it always ends up with a headache. However, since she appeared to me, I did everything to get closer to her, even though I felt like if her stare could kill, I would have been resting for a long time. Maybe one of the happiest days that happened to me was when we had a business trip to Cebu, because that's when my friend Shanna thought, and if I only knew that just eating beans in halo-halo was the reason why I got close to her, I would rather just always eat bean
I promised Aubree that I would marry her after graduation, but I didn't know how to do it, especially since I had a friend who was waiting for her. I was on my way home when I suddenly fell to the cement because of Sebastian's sudden punch. “You idiot, I told you there was something going on between you two.” He pointed at me furiously. I wiped my bloody mouth with the back of my hand and gave him a smirk. “I like her, since the beginning, man, I'm sorry.” “Sorry! Just sorry? Damn it, man, there are plenty of other girls out there, why her? I told you that I liked her. I fucking told you that I would tell her after our graduation, man, but what did you do? Damn it.” "I don't know either, I'm sorry. I only know one thing, I loved her, man, I loved her from the start. If you can't tell her how you feel then it's fair, maybe it's just fate that found a way," He shook his head, still looking at me angrily. “I'll still take her from you. She's coming with me. She's coming with me, m
RYKER MATT SULLIVAÑO POV 02“Who was that, bro?” I asked again, wanting to be sure. I hoped it wasn’t true.“Aubree Lynn, and I think she likes me too. I heard it from one of her classmates. Of course, I don't want to rush things just because I found out she likes me, I'll court her after we graduate from college, what do you think, bro?” I didn't know what to say. Out of all the students, why her? Why my crush?The moment he said he liked Aubree, I realized something, I had already fallen for Aubree Lynn, for a long time, but I just used my anger and teasing to make her annoyed with me. But damn, he's my friend, how can I tell him to like someone else?I carried that thought with me all the way home and to bed, it hurt even more when I saw them together and happy. Were they a couple? Fuck! Was I too late?Because of my friend's confession, it felt like our friendship changed just because of a girl we both liked. I liked her too.Every time she was grumpy, it was like a joy for me, wh
EPILOGUERYKER MATT SULLIVAÑO POV 01(Mature Content)“Stop it, man, you're getting hurt.” Sebastian tried to stop me.“Damn, bro, I can't, they started it. Just one more, then I'll stop. Damn, bro, that bald guy even called his buddy.” I smirked because it was so ridiculous.Whoever started the fight was the one who was acting tough, but now they wouldn't fight fair. They even called in another guy.“Alright, after this we're going home, or my mom will get mad.” My friend said, we've been buddies since high school. We were the only ones left from our group. Alberto and Albert had gone home, we didn't expect to be ambushed by these idiots.There were only three of them, two were already fighting, and I thought the bald guy was scared so he ran away. Turns out he went to find backup. Crazy.These were our schoolmates from high school, and they still had a grudge against us. They were the ones with the grudge, but they were the ones who were angry. Time seemed to be running backward, l
CHAPTER 65I jolted awake from a bad dream. I immediately stood up and grabbed some water, calming myself down before drinking. I peeked at my husband and son, and thankfully they were both fine, which gave me some relief.What did that dream mean? Why was it so painful?It was still early morning. Mom and Freya were still asleep on the sofa, and thankfully it was wide enough for them to fit. I told Mom to go home for a while, but she refused. The Sullivaño couple had been here all day, but because Ryker’s mother was sensitive, they stayed at the hotel again. Freya didn’t want to go with them because she was shy and wanted to be the first one her brother saw when he woke up. She also didn’t go to school until her twin was back, and thankfully her teacher agreed.After calming myself down, I checked on Maynard, who was still asleep. He was the same as his dad. He didn’t have an IV anymore because it had been removed, but Ryker still had some tubes attached to him. He had hit his head h
CHAPTER 64“Hey man, I thought we were going to an engagement party? Why are you here? For crying out loud, wake up.” Edziel’s voice roused me from my daze.“I’m awake, you even had lechon cooked for me, five of them, no payment yet. That’s almost a million.” Douglas said."What? That’s the price of your lechon? I won’t buy it, man.” Carlos said."Dude, just to wake you up, you never know, you might suddenly sit up to pay.”"Ahh…" Ten men nodded in unison. They were really crazy.“Hello, Aubree, sorry we came by because we heard the news. We were going to come last night but the guard outside said not to because you needed rest.” Lance said, so I nodded.I must have fallen asleep while sitting on the small plastic chair, holding hands with Ryker.I peeked at my son in the other bed where Mom was. They were both still asleep, neither of them had woken up since yesterday. I missed their voices so much.“We brought some fruits and food, eat something.” Ignacio suggested. Ryker’s friends
CHAPTER 63“No… no… please let me in… please… please. I want to go in… I want to see my husband and son.” I begged the nurses who were stopping me from entering the emergency room."Ma’am, you can’t go in ma’am. They’re being treated–”"No… you don’t understand. They need me, please.. please." I was almost on my knees begging them. “Please… I want to see them… Maynard! Ryker! I’m here… I’m here.”“Daughter! Aubree, my daughter. Oh God." I immediately turned to the voice and saw my parents running towards me with Donna and Caloy."Aubree?"“Aubree… ““Mama. Papa. Maynard and Ryker are – they’re inside, Ma, pa, the nurses won’t let me in, I want to see them." I was almost going crazy outside the emergency room.My dad hugged me tightly. “Be strong, my dear, be strong. God is merciful, He’s merciful, He won’t let anything bad happen to them."“But pa… maybe.. they need me. They’ve been inside for hours. No one has come out yet. I… maybe if I go in… they’ll wake up, we’ll go home.. pa… pa
CHAPTER 62(Mature content)“You’re blooming today, Inday, you’re happy today? Let me guess.” Shit! Did Lanie find out about Ryker and me…?“W-what?”“Because our salary will be higher this month, ahh yes,” she said, squealing, making me laugh. I thought it was something else.Well, why am I so nervous? Ryker is my real husband, even though we’re not married yet. We already have two kids, so I don’t care what other people say. It’s not like Ryker and I are hiding what my role is in his life.He actually wanted to introduce me to all his employees and friends, but I told him to wait until he remembers me so I wouldn’t hear any rumors about me taking advantage of our relationship because he forgot about me. We’re not hiding, I know some people know, they’re just gossipy, so I don’t care, as long as Ryker and I are happy.He’s been busy with work lately, so sometimes he’s not in the office, but when he’s here, we both don’t get any work done because we’re busy with something else. Making