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"How can you live your life if you can't create new memories?"
"How can I move forward when I'm stuck in the past?"
"I know that the saddest moment is when a person who gave you the best memories, becomes a memory but I guess having n...
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"Please, stay with me," I can vision the blurry face of a man, he was blooded. The distortion of light flickers in my sight. What is happening? I can clearly clear the slow heartbeat of my heart. I am hardly breathing.
"Leyra, stay with me. We're near the emergency room. Don't sleep!" A familiar voice of a man spoke, he was crying and he was holding my head. I feel some liquid that is dripping. I cannot clearly seen the man's face. Until I black out.
I wake up from a dream. What the fuck did I dream? Is it a dream or a fragments of memory from the past? I diverted my gaze from the old man who's knocking on my window. He looks familiar but I cannot remember who he was. He signaled me to low down the car's window. Ibinaba ko ito.
"Ija, Anong ginagawa mo rito? Gabing-gabi na, narito ka pa rin sa daan? Delikado." Pag-aalalang wika nito.
"Thank you pero okay lang po ako." I smiled. "Nagkakilala na po ba tayo?" agad-agad na tanong ko naman. He smiled at me.
"Oo Ija. Marahil ay nakalimutan mo na ako. I am Señor Vincenzo. Ako ang nagtattoo niyang mga nasa katawan mo," sabi nito sa'kin. "Nasaan nga pala ang kasama mo? Si Krio?" dagdag pa nito.
"Po?" I asked curiously. "Wait, I'll check it." Kinuha ko ang mga litrato sa gamit ko, I saw a photo of six men with a mask. I check the back of the photo, may nakalagay doon na sulat 'Krio is part of them, don't trust him' . I felt a sudden ache in my heart, a tear drops in my eyes.
"Ija? Ayos ka lang ba?" Señor Vincenzo tapped my shoulder. I noticed the video recorder. I immediately grabbed it. I checked the videos and played it. It was me and Hyntall talking with each other. Did I record it? Or it was Krio who did this? While the video continues to play my tears started overflowing. It was him.
"Maybe I already found out the truth. He betrayed me. All them betrayed me." I cried in pain.
"Ang ibig mo bang sabihin? Sila mismo ang pumatay sa mapapangasawa mo?" tanong nito. Bakas din sa mukha niya ang pagkabahala. I nodded my head as a response.
"They did the same mistakes I did," saad nito kaya nagtaka ako.
"Po?" He gave me an intriguing look.
"I already told to you everything the night we first encounter with Krio, Ija. I am one of the Heirs of Atticus. I am the older brother of Señor Matias Atticus." I was in shocked when I heard that.
"Alam kong hindi tama ang ginawa nila sayo, at ang salitang patawad ay hindi sapat para mapalitan ang lahat ng sakit at paghihirap na naidulot nila sa'yo. They are my grandchildren but I will never tolerate what they've done. They need to pay the consequences. You need to do something," payo nito sa'kin.
"I also need to do something. I don't want them to suffer like me and be miserable for their whole life," dagdag pa nito.
"Ayoko nang may mamatay muli sa kanila," he becomes teary while I am also in tears. "Alam ko na ang nangyari sa anak-anakan ko. Ang sakit malaman na wala na ang apo ko. Sa lahat sa kanila siya ang pinakamalapit sa'kin, ni hindi ko man lang nakilala at nakasama ang iba sa kanila. Matias doesn't want me to know them. Only Riushan took the chance to know me," naputol ang sasabihin niya ng biglang mag ring ang cellphone na dala ko. Tinignan ko kung sino ang tumatawag dito. The moment I saw who it was, it warms my heart. I know in this hardest time, I need somebody to lean on. And, God gave me a companion. It was Mom.
