Let's Flip a Coin. Heads, "You're Mine". Tails, "I'm Yours"

Chapter 35 --- Mrs. MacKenzie

Chapter 35

Mrs. MacKenzie

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Kumakain na kami ngayon ni Lucas. Tahimik lang kami nang bigla syang magsalita.

"I've heard that your grandmother visited."

"So?"

"Well, are you going to meet her?"

I stopped from eating and put my spoon and fork down. I looked at Lucas who is currently looking at me seriously.

"Yes. We need to talk anyway. Besides, I need to thank her," I answered him. I get a napkin and wiped my mouth.

"Thank her for what?"

I put my napkin down, stood up then get my bag.

"For ruining my life."

And with that, I left my office. I told my secretary to call that old woman and meet me at the near restaurant. And the old woman happily agreed to meet me. Ha! As if we're going to bond.

I was at my half glass of my juice when she came. She was about to hug me when I stopped her.

"I'm here to talk. Not to make up for the lost times," I said without looking at her.

"Ay. Pasensya ka na, hija," she said then sat down in front of me.

"Funny. Do you really plan on making me believe that you're just a f*cking nanny?" I asked her, pissed. I can't believe her. How can she go on pretending to be just the "manang Rosa"?!

"Anong ibig mong sabihin?"

I took the brown envelope from my briefcase then gave it to her.

"That's my medical records," I told her. I saw that she was shocked with what she saw. "Yes, LOLA. For five years that I was gone, I regain my lost memories. I took a medical care for my brain for the last three years. Do you know who convinced me to go to the hospital?"

She looked at me and that's when I told her, "Lucas. He told me that I lost some of my memories. Memories including the accident, Zayn and you."

[Flashback (3 years ago)]

Somewhere in America...

"What are you doing here?" I asked Lucas as he stepped inside my hotel room.

"Look at you. You look horrible," he said to me. I closed the door then walk pass by him.

"I don't care. Just leave. The f*cking door's not lock," I said then lay on my bed. This is all I do for the past two years, when I left. Lay down, do nothing, reminisce - even if I don't want to, ask of the what ifs, and feel pain every f*cking day.

I suddenly felt a hand pulled me up.

"What the hell is wrong with you?! Leave me alone!"

"Stop this crap, Scarlet! You're just ruining your own life!"

"That's easy for you to say! Hindi mo alam kung gaano kasakit ang iwan ka ng isang tao kung kailan mahal mo na sya! Kung kailan hindi mo na kayang mabuhay ng wala sya! You don't know how I feel so leave me alone!" I yelled at him and hit his hand causing it to let go of my arm. Then I turned my back at him. I don't want to see him. I don't want to see anybody. I don't want them to see me like this. I know I look horrible. I am now the laughing stock! My pride just couldn't take that fact that's why I left.

"You know what? It's true. I don't know how hurtful it is. I don't know how it feels to be left by the one you love. But do you even know what I'm feeling? Do you have the slightest hint of what I'm going through?" He paused from talking. Probably, waiting for me to respond. But I didn't.

"Of course you don't know. Because you're too busy minding yourself. You don't even know that you're hurting me, Scarlet."

With what I heard, I faced him with a confuse look.

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't know how it feels to be left alone but I do know how it feels to chase someone who is madly inlove with someone else."

I was speechless. I don't know what to say.

Lucas like me?

"And I know how it feels to wait for you to regain every memories that you've lost when in fact, I know that's impossible."

"What do you mean, Lucas?"

"Scarlet, you have a traumatic amnesia."

[End of flashback]

"Scarlet, listen to me first."

"No. I'll do the talking. Besides, I don't want to listen to you. Who knows of what lie you're going to say with that dirty mouth of yours," I said, sternly. "Do you have any idea of what I've been through?! Do you know how it feels to live a life that you thought were complete but wasn't?! I've been living an incomplete life and you let me be! You didn't even helped me!"

"Scarlet, I'm so sorry. I did it for your own good," she said as she started crying.

"My own good?! My own f*cking good?! Where the hell did you get that lie?! Ha?! Tell me! You let me suffer! You and Zayn!"

"Scarlet, I've tried to fix everything. Kaya nga pinakiusapan ko si Zayn na tulungan kang makaalala, the natural way. Without undergoing some medical treatment."

"Have you even thought that maybe, just maybe, it will make things even more complicated? And Zayn? Of all people, why Zayn? You know how much I hated him for leaving me behind?!"

"Dahil isa sya sa nakalimutan mo, kaya sa kanya ako humingi ng tulong."

"Yeah. And he helped you lie to me. Yung totoo, LOLA. Did you really want me to remember everything for my own sake? Or for your own sake?"

I waited for her to respond but she didn't. I took that silence of her as a permission to speak.

"See? You did it for yourself. You want me to remember but not completely. You want me to recover but not for my sake, but for the benefit of my arrange marriage. You want me to remember some lost memories so that when I'm about to marry Lucas, I'm not completely incomplete."

"Apo..."

"Don't you dare call me that. Nakakasuka," I said, trying to supress the tears and stood up.

"Scarlet, please."

"Enough already, Mrs. MacKenzie. Don't worry, I'll marry Lucas. Not for your own sake but for the sake of MY COMPANY."

And then I left her there in the restaurant, dumbfounded.

[A/N: I'm so sorry for the short update. Babawi ako. I won't promise but I'll do my best. Thanks for still supporting me. Feel free to leave comments. Motivation lang ^^]