"Achilles!"
I stopped after hearing the voice of my mother calling my name. As I turn my gaze on her, she looks problematic and devastated.
"What?" I annoyingly asked.
"What did the both of you talked about?"
Napatawa ako sa tanong niya. "It's none of your business."
"How could you do this to me Achilles?! I'm your mother! You're supposed to understand me! All I did was just for the sake of the both of you-"
"It was only for your sake. When father was in the middle of dying, you were happy. Kulang nalang magpahanda ka sa kasiyahan mo. You didn't even asked me and Deitry if we were sad, dumiretso kalang sa bahay nato para ibalitang wala na si papa." I cut her words off.
"N-no, I wasn't. I was sad-"
"Shut up! That's not the only reason why I hate you mother. You know the real reason why I'm being like this, you know it very well."
Napailing-iling siya ng paulit-ulit at pilit akong inaabot ngunit umiiwas ako sa pag-abot niya.
"I'm trying my best not to tell her about what really happened. I'm trying my very best Mother not because I want to protect you but because I am trying to stand my guilt. It's eating me," itinuro ko ang dibdib ko at galit na piniga ang kamao.
"It's eating me inside! That I wanted to die... "
Nagsimula itong humikbi at hindi alam kung aabutin niya ba ako o hihilahin upang yakapin ng mahagpit.
Madiin kong kinagat ang aking ibabang labi at binigyan ito ng masamang tingin.
"You should try you best hiding the truth from her, until you die."
Matapos ay iniwan ko siya at dumiretso sa kwarto.
Nang maikalma ang sarili mula sa galit ay napasabunot na lamang ako sa 'king buhok at tumungga ng alak mula sa baso.
Alalang-alala ko pa ang lahat, kung saan nagsimula ang kasalanang kailanman ay hindi ko nakalimutan.
It was winter, when my father died. I was sad and lonely because of losing my father whom I loved the most.
He was kind, loving, and responsible father. He loves my mother but I do know that mother doesn't love him.
She always find a reason for them to fight, small things that created a fight between them.
That's why I didn't bother telling her that I was sad and lonely because I can see that she's happy when father died.
Day after the burial, umalis kami sa bahay namin. Sabi niya lilipat na daw kami ngunit sa pagdating namin sa bagong bahay na sinasabi niya ay nalaman kong gusto niyang maging asawa ng Duke Catastrope.
It was pathetic to hear, even when I'm still young I know that it was adultery.
The Duke has a wife and a daughter but mother insisted that she must become a wife of the Duke.
Lagi niyang pinagdidiskitahan ang asawa ng Duke, lagi silang nagsasagutan kaya minsan ay sinusubukan kong lumayas ngunit pinipigilan ako ni Deitry.
BINABASA MO ANG
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