Zero Option (Options Series #1)

Chapter 1

"why are your grades starting to get low Leau? di porket di na kita hinihigpitan ay papabayaan mo na ang pag-aaral mo?"

if di pa paghihigpit ang ginagawa mo dad, pano pa pag naghigpit ka? I bet I would crawl and sacrifice everything para makaabot sa standard mong napakataas to the point where if anytime I fail, I would lose my self and start from scratchgain.

I talk to myself as I was listening to the same litanya I'm hearing everytime I show him my grades.

"Ano nalang ang sasabihin ng mga tao sa paligid? that the daughter of Drius Strivani the top notcher on his time is a failure? "

"i'm sorry dad, I'll do better next time."

"never be contented with the word better, do your best Stelle Leau Strivani" he said with finality.

"yes dad, ill do my best" I said like a robot on our way home.

home. I smirked and look outside of our car and realized that I never felt the feeling of being home. All I felt on that place was being controlled like a toy and not the warmth of being home.

kung di kaya namatay ng maaga si mommy at nagkaroon ako ng kapatid, would everything be different? will there be someone with whom I can share all the burdens? but thinking of having someone experiencing the same experience I have makes me shiver because I don't want someone to experience the same thing.

kalaunan nakarating na din kami sa bahay and I felt a hollow feeling on my stomach People might think that the people living on this house lives a perfect life, the modern house decorated and styled with a color of gray, white and brown surrounded by plants and flowers properly placed but little do they know , Infront of me is the place where I treated as a nightmare.

"go to your room and review everything, I don't accept you being the 2nd in class, strive harder to be the top" dad said in his usual cold tone.

as a young age of 12 I was trained to be competitive and to always strive for the best. I don't have that usual childhood where I can play with friends on the playground or having friends at all. I remember that time nung nagkaron ako ng friends and dad shoo them away because he thinks that they might be the reason of my downfall. Pinagbantaan sila kaya sila lumayo and I was left alone. Like I always do, and I have zero option but to continue. Alone.

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