Be With Me Then (Then Series #5)

Chapter 26

Chapter 26

Witnessed 

I am just hugging Renzo the whole time until I can feel na wala na akong maiyak pa kaya ako na ang unang lumayo sa kanya at pinunasan yung luha ko. Hindi ko talaga maintindihan why he can say that he will be with me. Hindi niya ba nakikita kung gaano ako kawasak at kung gaano kamiserable ang buhay ko. 

And I am scared of what happen. He protected me like what my brother did to me. 

"How did you bring me here?" I ask while wiping my tears. 

"I called your manager, but don't worry wala akong sinabi. I just said nakita kitang bigla na lang hinimatay while running away." he said like he knows kung ano na ang sunod na itatanong ko sa kanya. 

"Thank you" I said and look at him na nakatitig lang sa akin. 

"That guy is already at the police station." he said at tumango naman ako remembering the look of that guys face lalo na nung may hawak siyang kutsilyo na nakatutok kay Renzo na papunta sa akin.  

Sobrang takot yung naramdaman ko nung mga oras na yun dahil buong akala ko mararananasan ko na naman ang naranasan ko years ago. 

Because Renzo become important to me too and I am just scared that something will happen to him because of me. Ano na lang sasabihin ni Zaira at Raffy pag napahamak yung pinsan nila ng dahil sa akin. I know that they will blame me dahil kahit gaano man ako kaimportante sa kanila Renzo is the most important to them.

 I can't handle another blame anymore. I've been blaming myself for the past years at ayoko ng madagdagan pa yun dahil baka hindi ko na talaga kayanin. So I would rather not be protected than to be protected. 

"Don't tell anyone about what happen." I said and avoid his eyes pero nakita ko pa din yung pagtataka nun bago ko iiwas yung tingin ko. 

I don't want anyone to know what happen tonight. Ayokong malaman ng mga kaibigan ko yung mga nangyari lalo na si Oliver alam kong hindi talaga siya titigil hanggang hindi nawawala yung galit niya sa nangyari and they might stop all of my schedules at hindi pwede yun lalo na at ang dami kong project for the next months. 

"Why? Are you keeping this again? What happen to you is already too much Irene." he said and that makes me look at him and I really saw confusion in his eyes parang hindi siya yung Renzo na sa unang tingin pa lang alam na ang dahilan o nakikita niya na agad because all I can see right now is Renzo who can say all the words he want to say and look so confused like he can't understand me anymore.

But the face of my friends and my family pop up in my mind. Lalo na sila ate ang yung mga kaibigan ko pag nalaman nila yun alam kong sobrang magugulo pa yung mga buhay nila because of me. 

"Yun nga sobra na, at ayokong madamay sila doon! if Raffy knows about this for sure she will treat me like her responsibility at makakagulo lang ako sa kanya and also, Hannah will be heartbroken about this and I don't want Zaira to be worried." I said while thinking of my friends. 

Kilala ko yung mga kaibigan ko. I know them very well. Sa kanila na lang ako kumukuha ng lakas ko and if they knew about what happen alam kong mahihirapan sila doon at iisipin nila. My friends already had too much lalo na si Zaira at Raffy. 

Hindi man nagsasabi si Raffy I know that she is keeping something na hindi niya alam paano sasabihin. 

"Do you even know what happen to you last night? How you shake in fear and your eyes is full of tears but still the fear is evident on your eyes. And now you don't want to tell anybody? You have your trauma Irene and you want to hide what happen to everyone." Bigla ko namang naalala yung nangyari kagabi.