THE GIRL I KNEW

18. WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT EAVESDROPPING?

COMMENTS MAKE ME SMILE 🙃💛

GABRIELLA’S POV:

“Someone just asked ummm...” I squinted my eyes as I read the comments section. Back in college days, I used to do a lot of Instagram live Q and A sesh and if you don’t know what a ‘Q and A sesh’ is then it basically means a Questions and Answers session.

I haven’t done one in a while considering I’ve been focused on my modelling and acting career for the past two years but here I am on my teenage bed, in my teenage bedroom, in my parents’ house. I haven’t really spent time with them recently and my mom insisted that I stay for a couple of days.

“Someone just asked me if I and my.....BABY DADDY?!..” My eyes widened at the name they called André. “....are getting back together.” I was beyond shocked. Not shocked that this kind of question is here but shocked that I actually read it and not skip like I usually do. “Uuuummmm, you guys know me for keeping my umm relationship life private so yeah.” I dodged the question and immediately I saw angry comments.

Shiiit, they’re maaaadd pissed!

“Uuuummm, fiiine you guys should chill okayy.” I laughed. “Mister André Lombardi and I have no plans on getting back together. We’re just co-parenting.” I smiled despite the pain filling inside of me worsened.

Tequila ran and hugged me from the back.

“But mommy I would really really like if you guys fall in love with each other, you know, like how other mommies and daddies do.” My daughter smiled with innocence glistening in her eyes.

Agony registered in my heart as she said it. I wish we could, but we can’t. My love died for him a long time ago. But I just can’t seem to explain what I feel now. Anytime I lay my eyes on him or whenever he’s close to me, the inside of me can’t help but tremble with giddiness. I’d feel like a love sick teenager.

“Uuuummm why don’t you go play with your toys?” I dodged the question and ruffled her hair.

When she left, I went back to the comments and I saw a lot of people going awww at Tequila’s statement and laughing at my reaction to her question.

“Um someone asked for the reason why I cheated on André. What? I never cheated on him, whatever rumor you heard about me years ago, most of them are FAKE. I’m not that type of perra.” Since I entered college, the media got more invasive in my life and whenever they got a little tweak, they’d blow it up into a rumor.

“Why all of a sudden do you want to expose your life again for us?” I read a question. “I don’t really want to put it like that even though it seems like that. It’s just, me, Camilla and Lucia decided to fully come back to the spotlight, most especially Luciana and I because of some things we realized few days ago that really took us off guard, most especially me. And umm, I realized the only way possible to stop it was to come back, for the sake of my daughter. I love seeing my daughter happy and umm, I decided to come back. I wanna prove to her that I’m not ashamed of her or anything, I just wanted to make her have a normal life just like my parents wanted to do to me. To be honest back then, I didn’t really understand why my mom kind of kept me away, but now I know why they drew me away from the media. And I tried doing that to my daughter but it seems my plans aren’t going to be successful which I’m perfectly okay with. With the grace of God, I do hope both Vivi and Tequila are able to handle the wrath of the media and celebrity life as a whole.” I chuckled along with my last statement.

“Okay my last question for today iiiiiss....” I bursted into laughter as I read it. “Someone said ‘why did you name your daughter after a liquor drink?’..... that is a very complicated story that I actually do pray one day I will be able to have the courage to share with you guys. As of now, I can’t share because it’s really an emotional topic for me and it’s probably gonna take a while before I open up about it or I might not just ‘cause it’s really personal.”