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"I'm not forcing you to believe me---"He stopped the car which really surprised me. But my surprise doubled when he pulled my body closer to him, giving me a tight and warm hug.I'm not expecting him to do this, nor I'm not prepared for him to do this. I can't stop my heart from beating fast."I'm just happy," he broke away from hugging me, making sure to accompany it with a shy laugh.He was the first to get out of the car to open the door for me, and to my surprise, we are at a food court near the supermall in our city."What are we going to do here?""Are not you hungry?"I frowned. "You're saying what?"Instead of answering my question, he just pulled me to enter the food court to make sure we buy something to eat.Only street foods can be seen and there are also round tables here. There are a lot of people here now, but thankfully, there are still a few tables available.Both of our trays were filled with a variety of street foods like fish balls, fries, siomai, burgers, kikiam,
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When I opened my eyes, I was shocked to find myself lying on a bed and… there was dextrose attached to me.That's when I realize that I'm in the hospital now. I looked around the room but saw a nurse who was busy taking my body temperature."Nurse, can I ask you something?""What's that?" Responding to it.“How did I get here? Who brought me here to the hospital? Am I the only one who rushed here? I don't have a man with me?”He walked away from me with sad eyes. "I think the police can answer your questions."When the Nurse finally left the room, two policemen entered at the same time. Both of them looking at me suspiciously which added to the nervousness I feel at this time."Miss Desiderio, right?""Where are you with me? Did you save him?”"Hija, our group found you lying on the road with scars on your body. We caught the car that crashed and exploded.If the person you're referring to is in that car, maybe don't expect him to live anymore." Said a police officer wearing a cap."W
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Besides Magi, he is the person I want to be with for a long time. KJ is a case of destiny because the one above took him immediately.It hurts to think that the reason I was smiling and happy before, is also the reason why I am sad now."Why is it that no matter where I go, he's the one I remember?" I laughed and asked myself when I realized that I was here in the park, the place where I first met him.He was even wearing a mascot, but I only found out the next day that Israel was behind that hot costume.That day was one of the saddest days of my life. Because Papa will leave me in the hands of my stepmother again.During those times, I find a quiet place to cry and vent all my anger towards them. He happened to find me and tried to talk to me and cheer me up.Using his words, I became motivated.Now I'm looking for that mascot that seems to have been made for Israel. Because I remember he said that he could do that to make people like me happy.But now that I'm sad, who will make me
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"He can't receive visitors first, hija. 'Because when he sees someone, he suddenly loses his temper and even hurts him.We also find it difficult to live with him so we time him to sleep to bring food and medicine.He is also injected with a sedative in case he fails his therapy.” A staff here at the rehab center explained to me.I asked her permission to visit one of their patients which is Papa, but she didn't want to allow me because Papa said it hurts when he sees other people.So now, I just looked outside his room, he was on his white bed playing with a small teddy bear.I approached the glass window to take a closer look at Papa, and unexpectedly, I see him smiling while playing the toy.At this moment, I can't help myself but to cry again. I feel sorry for his condition now, far from what I used to see him a few years ago. It's hard for me to stomach looking at him now because it's hard to see my Dad in such a situation.It seems he returned to his childhood but once he saw an
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I chuckled with that thought. "Maybe you can't handle my being an overthinker, right? Well, if you're the one who can handle my overthinking, I'll marry you.""Do you want me to betray my friend?" I looked at him as my brows furrowed."Even though he is no longer here, I still have a huge respect for him. You're his woman and that, I believe, will never change just because he's no longer with us.”I laughed at him not because his line was funny. I really laughed because he took my joke seriously."And he will always be here," I place my right hand to my chest. “Just like him, I've never been in love like this before. Not even once, until he came.”My feelings for Israel are deeper and more genuine than I have with Harold before.“I believe you will overcome all this too. At this moment, I think it's time to use this opportunity to make yourself happy.Even though Israel broke his promise to you that he'll make it until the end, but I think it's your turn to do what you promised him.I
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“Irene, don't you want to move to a condo? I know a condo near here, you won't be hassled if someone ever calls you a talent manager to hire you as their artist. It's actually close to the agencies here.""Maybe not, Eli. I'm already in control of the bill in the apartment I'm staying in, should I go for a c-condo? Nevermind...""I will pay.""And you also know that I will not agree to that," I looked at him."It's enough that you helped me before, Eli. Please, don't increase my fees to you anymore.""Who said I was paying you?"“I don't accept free---”"My helping you is voluntary, Irene. Volunteers help others without accepting things in return, and I have never seen that bad.That's what I'm doing now, but your pride keeps on halting you to accept it."I got out of the car to escape to answer him. He likes cornering me using his unpredictable thoughts, and I hate it.Yeah, it's all about my pride. I don't want others to help me when I can do something by myself.I'm also not the ty
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Because I was invited to handle a supporting role, a double celebration happened when we finally arrived at Harris' restaurant.To give you a brief background information, the past years of Harris working hard to be a marketing consultant before led him to fulfill his greatest goal in life... and that is to build his own restaurant. His restaurant is now successful knowing that he's a good cook, and he's also handsome.I've heard that Harris finished an engineering course way back, but he became a marketing consultant, now a chef and manager of his own restaurant.That might be because not all the time, it's not related to the course that a person finished that he will get a job right after that person graduated. Perhaps it's their choice not to apply for a specific job related to their degree, or it's not their choice to take that degree during college. Just like me, Hospitality Management is not my dream course but still, I choose to finish it. And now, surprisingly, I'm slowly intr
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I smiled having the thought of accepting the director's compliment for us. We're halfway through the drama, we're about to finish shooting it within just a week or two, I think.The day goes by so fast, and so far, what I'm showing is beautiful and neat. Almost every day I receive compliments because of my acting skills. But I remained humble, because I knew I still had something else to learn. I'm sure there are many who can be better than me, so I think I should be more motivated to do my best in the remaining scenes with me.Wishing myself all the best."How's your day?"When I got out of the shooting place, I just laughed when I saw Eli waiting for me. His schedule is busy now but he still managed to pick me up."You don't have to pick me up, okay? I'm aware that you're very busy right now, I don't want to bother you anymore.""You never bothered me." He opened the door and then I sat on the passenger's seat. "It's been a while since the day I confessed to you my feelings, Irene."
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ELIAS"I still can't believe she'll do such a thing." Standing beside me was Corrine's face, who couldn't stop herself from whimpering as she stared at a long, white coffin where Stacy's lying down. "Then you know it hurts?"I noticed that she was crying all the time, still she's trying to hide it by looking up at the sky. It's the day to take Stacy to her final destination. Corrine's family also decided to bury Stacy right away."On the very last day of our taping, I wished that night would be the last day I would see her face. As if she heard that... she made it true. My together , Eli."The one thing I know I can offer him right now is my warm hug. I first moved her away from Stacy's corpse as if I'm hoping she could calm down if she's no longer seeing the remains of her long lost sister."She did what she thought was best for you, Corrine." While caressing her back, her whimpers continue. "He's aware of how much you hate him since day one you two met, and from the day you implante
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"Honestly speaking, if we hadn't been lacking for time filming it, supposedly "Mending Alicia" is the newest Maple View original series this coming January. That's why we didn't have enough time for taping, and a unanimous decision has been made to just make this a movie, which will still be aired on the same streaming platform.”When I opened my eyes as if I had come out of a long sleep, a flat screen TV appeared before me. And Director Manuel's voice made my sleeping soul wake up."The reason why we really need to finish the taping in order to catch up with the January listing, it's because the lead actress of the movie, Corrine Desiderio, had a busy schedule entering the New Year. People will be waiting for him to star in a teleserye that we can watch together on television this coming April or May.”"Literally a busy schedule for me," I whispered.Even though my vision was blurry because I was just squinting, I inspected the surroundings where I got up, and the place is all white.
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"Good job, actors... everyone of you."As the ending scene sealed with a passionate yet short kiss between the lead actors, we started making arrangements, taking pictures... and now, Director Manuel started his soul-stirring statement."I entrusted Emily with the casting of this movie... that I can say that this movie is one that I will never forget. In the past movie projects and series I directed, Mending Alicia would seriously be one of the most unforgettable for me.""First of all, we were in a rush to finish it. We were all stressed from the few nights we had to stay up just to catch up with the January listing. But the best part of it is that... even though we rushed that it's over, while watching the scenes, it's a rush but I'm satisfied.""Because you know what? Producing a good movie doesn't always mean to have plenty of time filming it, or to have the privilege of being guided by an award-winning director of all time, or to have the best scriptwriter for almost ten years. T
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"Are you crazy?" At the height of my tears, I managed to speak. "No... That's not true. Because... maybe you remember me now, that's why you're saying that? You're still the Joker..."I slapped his arm lightly, but it didn't even move his stiff body that stood in front of me. "Don't trip me up... It's not funny-""Irene, I'm sorry," cried Israel as he vainly tried to stop the tears from flowing down his cheeks. "Forgive me if I kept you waiting for a long time when you believed I was still alive. Forgive me because I made you believe I didn't survive the accident... and now... I ask for your forgiveness again for lying to you... again... to be the person who no longer recognizes anything from the past."Just this once, I want this scene to be converted as one of the nightmares I had every night. I can't accept that this incident is real... because the pain we both now experiencing could be hard for us to endure. And I can't even imagine how Israel could ever handle the pain watching m
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"Does it look good to me, Corrine?" And Stacy happily shoved the cartier watch that was from me... Eli gave it to the witch."No," I replied sparingly. "Because that's more suitable for a man..." That's why I chose that design... that's because I'm going to give the watch to a man. And seeing it worn by Stacy makes her look like a clown.The anger I had recently, disappeared like a bubble because of the mixture of Stacy's face with what I threw at her teasing. At least, I recovered somehow."Maybe it just depends if the person who gave it to you thinks it's a man," I added.I didn't waste my time to fight with Stacy as I immediately left the dressing room afterwards. My service van is also waiting outside to take it to the SGN Music studio—of course for the rehearsing part of the song that we'll gonna sing on our upcoming TV guesting.The reason why we are going to the SGN studio is because Eli is there, busy with his concert and also rehearsing other songs. It would also be nice to v
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"To kill the issue that is spreading about my break-up with Eli, everything is just a rumor," my opening statement as I was keeping my eyes looking strong in front of the camera. "We have no idea who's the person behind leaking this fake news throughout social media.""As we are facing the cameras right now to leave a statement, we are pleased to clarify everything that Eli and I are still in a relationship." At least I'd still call Eli as my boyfriend even only in front of hundreds of cameras and thousands of our fans."I just want to add to what Corrine said, I can assure both of our fandoms that there were no collisions that would ever happen between us. Remember our promise to all of you?"I looked confused at Eli for saying those words that were not in the script. I mean... it's not in the conversation that he needs to say publicly giving assurance to the fans that there will be no break-up between us. He is moving away from the goal we should now."That... I am forever bound wit
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"Corrine!""Corrine, wait!"I stopped walking when Eli hugged me from the back. His hands wrapped tightly around my waist, as if he didn't want to let me go."Let's fix it. Let's talk, hmm? If you're not ready to get married, I'm ready to wait." He made his voice sound strong in between his sobs.But, I shouldn't be carried away. I shouldn't be fragile by hearing his words and by listening to his nonstop pleas.I forcefully removed his hand that was clinging to my body, and as I make sure that I can face him without tears flooding my cheeks, I faced him. "Eli, please... don't think that I'm breaking up with you because you surprised me with your proposal."Because in fact, I've been waiting for you to kneel before me and ask me to marry you."It's not like that. My intention for breaking up with you is because..." I couldn't think of anything to reason out."If not, then why?"He was trying to catch my beautiful eyes on him, but I couldn't even look at him in the eye. Because if I do
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My jaw dropped. "Y-You're threatening his life again? Is this a piece of a joke, Stacy?"I'm starting to feel my teardrops falling now, add to it the itching of my mouth with what Stacy said.I'm hoping she's fvcking kidding me!"Do you think I have extra time to mock you, Irene? I'm serious, okay?" She pursed her lips as if she was trying to kill me in annoyance. "I will really kill him if you don't break up with him.""N-No." Desperately, I immediately knelt before Stacy even though it was against my heart. "Please... not him. I can't break up with Eli. Don't kill him-""I thought that if you broke up with Eli, our lives would be better." Pointing her eyes at me, she smiled sheepishly. "You'll do me a favor, and eventually I'll return it to you.""Just think about it, Irene... if you divorce Eli, I won't hesitate to kill him anymore. You won't have to worry that someone will try to kill him on the very day of his concert. Your mind will be free to not that he remembers the moment yo
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Instead of arguing with Stacy and choosing to make the trouble worse, I remained my mouth shut instead. The shooting place is not the right place for me to let go of Stacy and for me to exercise my immaturity.For sure, Director's temper will only increase if there is a fight on the set. Our working hours may be more than 24 hours today if by chance.Director let us rest after shooting that imperfect scene, that eventually will be retaken after the short break. I must have missed Eli too much that's why I have mentioned his name during the taping.But the crying scene was still a broken puzzle to me. What were those tears for?"I'm the one you're looking for, Irene," I heard someone say… and it was Stacy. "Yes, definitely. I am the owner of the fan account and the one behind the death threats that Eli receives." And she was saying those words the whole time, smiling."Should I be surprised?""You should've been startled now. That's what I'm expecting." She laughed before going near me
