My Sister's Fiance

Chapter fourteen --- the Family

Emme.

Dinner with his Family, well Im excited as usual. I mean I am but I just have this unknown insecure feeling toward his mom. She seems kind and good though but I can sense she was somewhat distant or what. I mean she had that look whenever she look at me like she knew something that I didn't or she just disaprove of me like every other woman Jeremy had dated. I wasn't the first girl he brought home but atleast not Im his fiance and Im different, I guess.

This must be paranoia. I sighed. I wasn't helping my situation, Im just making it more worst by feeling all gloomy and insecure with his past. Blame me.

Ignoring the feeling I try to make myself useful. I tried to help them set up the table and try to converse with his siblings or to his nephew, try my best to be casual and amiable and every other woman would do whenever she is in his beau's house. I tried to be perfect.

Needing some break I walk back to the receiving room and stopped and chose to watched the pictures and their family painting. The family painting was drawn decades ago. Jeremy was still two while his older brother is five and her sister Jacinta is four. Tita and tito were still young and handsome in the painting and it shows contentment and happiness there. They were complete and happy.

I smile with the thought, atleast in the absence of my real parents my sister never fails to show love and support for me. She has always been there for me and thats quiet enough.

I drifted my eyes from the painting to the pictures in the wooden table. It contains grad photos of Jeremy and his siblings, marriage photo of his parents, his sisters marriage and their baby's Christening. His brothers MVP photo, his wedding and his baby too. They were all wedded and happy except Jeremy. I suddenly feel a huge bliss with the thought that sooner or later our photo would be displayed here too. We would be happy and we will be like them, complete and content. I feel happy and proud with the thought when suddenly something took my gaze.

I reach for the photo which is framed in plain glass. It was hidden to the utmost part of the displays and it is the most simplest frames here. The picture too was simple. It was just a picture of a medal and a plaque.

"Its Jeremy's awards when he won the painting competition way back in college." Jacinta broke in as she too looks at the photo.

"He won?" I feel a sudden pride for the discovery and a sudden disappointment too. ---"and he paints?"

Jacinta just smile at me and nodded while touching the photo as if it relayed some memories there. "He was very talented."

"Wow. I didn't know. .I mean he didn't say something about it."

"He seems to forget about it though. .ever since---" She trailed off and look at me then smile again but I cant be deceived. She's saying something before she trailed off. Her smile were a bit forced too and I knew she is hiding something.

"ever since???---" Curiosity peek in. I know in myself I can't be content to have the subject drop off.

"Ahmm. .ever since he graduated college." Then she smile again. No. It wasn't what she was supposed to say. It must be something.

"Its because of a girl?" I asked. Jacinta look at me with slight shock but she resumed with her happy smile and held my hand while putting back the picture in its original place.

"Jeremy's first love. College sweethearts. .lasted two years and we thought they'll end up together. They seem so inlove with each other. Jem was so inlove with her."

Smiling is the fakest thing a person could conceive. I feel drained and hurt and mixes of I dont know feelings came in. But despite that I wanted to know more of the girl, of that woman. Of that person whom Jem loves so much before I came in.