The Unfaithful Wife

Simula

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'The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche'.

I looked around. The unfamiliar faces makes me feel uncomfortable. The unfamiliar surroundings makes me think where the effin place I am. I glance at myself and I find it weird! when I saw myself wearing a white hospital gown.

'Why am I even wearing this?' a question from a mind uttered.

I was about to ask where exactly I am when someone kissed my forehead. His masculine scent makes me shiver. He really smell so damn good, but that smell isn't familiar. He wear a business suit and he also hold a bouquet of flowers in his left hand.

"Thanks God your finally awake" I saw happiness and hopes in his eyes.

Seriously, I don’t know who the hell is this man. I swear this is the first time I ever saw his face. I narrowed my brows and glared at him!. I even saw the old woman standing behind this man.  A cute little girl, and a man in his forties, I guess.

"Who... Are you?" I asked him with full of curiosity. "Why did you...kissed me! and why am I even here!?" I heard myself shaking asking him that way.

I saw how the man's facial expression change. It seems like, he is asking or thinking something I don't know. I even saw how he scowled.

"Honey it's me....Kaedan, your husband" He answered while his brows meet. "And that is Keila our daughter" he's pertaining to the young girl behind him "Don’t you remember what happened to you?!. You and my sister Andrea hit by another car that cause you to an accident" he continued.

"Huh... wha.. what?" I only uttered.

Husband? Daughter? Accident? What the hell is he talking about? I am not married yet cause I'm still young enough to get married! and besides I already broke up with my boyfriend. And it's really impossible for me to have a daughter because, I have my first priorities before that things. And, I don't even remember I got pregnant and gave birth. This is funny, really funny.  And accident? I suddenly stop for my thoughts when an accident flash in my mind. Yes its indeed true, I got an accident but not through hitting cars.

I close my eyes and forcedly think what accident hit me, that brought me here in the hospital.

Natuptup ko ang bibig ng may maalala. Yes, I remember it now. Vividly clear.

It was late in the evening, I woke up with full of smoke all over my room. I felt the heat and I even suffocate, our house is burning. I called my mom, my dad, and my sister but no one answer me, until my vision got blur, and the next thing I know is here I am now, lying in the hospital bed surrounded by the people I don’t even know.

The most trigger me here is, why is this man beside me claiming me as his wife and a mother to his child? Do I look like her wife?

"Your wife!?" I look at the man beside me and asked him that. "How? I mean, do I look like your wife? that's impossible Sir. Really impossible" I sarcastically laughed at him.

"Sir!" he stated. "Why are you saying such nonsense words like that? Honey...."

"You're the one whose talking nonsense here" pinutol ko siya sa kung anumang gusto sana niyang sabihin. "Claiming me as your wife is so insane. You're just probably, mistaken me. And again, do I really look like your wife?. And will you please, stop calling me HO..NEY" iritable ko'ng baling ulit sa kanya.

Nakakaloka. Ok lang sana pagkamalan niya akong Ex niya since gwapo naman siya at may matipunong katawan. Pero ang maging asawa niya agad at nanay ng anak niya? Haaaa..That is so pathetic accusation.

He sighed while he's hand resting his waist. Marahan siya'ng umiling bago muling tumitig sa mga mata ko.

"Alys please" he sounds so frustrated.

Alys? Hell yah -- I'm not Alys. Baliw ba 'to? I  honestly felt sorry for him. But it really makes me confuse why is he kept on insisting that I am his fucking wife. I was about to argue him again when he suddenly handed me his phone.

"I don't know what's wrong or what's happening with you but please, come check it out" he said.

And since I don't want to prolong this nonsense issue, I grab his phone. And he's right, he's a family man. There's a picture of him with his beautiful wife and their daughter. But that wife isn't me, indeed. 

"See?" I chuckled at him. Padabog kong nilapag sa kama ang phone niya. "I am not your wife" kalmado at puno ng kasiguraduhan ko'ng ani sa kanya. I even smiled at him while my arms cross. "Because that woman on the picture is obviously not me, no resemblance either."

He took a deep breath before he looked at me. Liningon niya ang mga taong kasama namin sa room na 'yun. He's eyes is so helpless and deep. It seems like he has something very important things to discuss me. He's eyes is like asking me to believe him. Pero maging siya ay hindi alam kung san magsisimula. Maging siya, ay nalilito at naguguluhan. Suddenly, I feel the pain, parang kinukurot ang puso ko seeing him like that. I don't know why, but it seems like, I read his eyes. And I even heard his voice, in his silent scream.

"Is that how you really want me.." saglit siya'ng tumigil at tumitig sa mga mata ko "to be out of your life?." He continued in his husky, tired and shaking voice.

That question makes me feel uncomfortable. Para ako'ng binuhusan ng sobrang lamig na tubig. I vowed down my head. The whole room filled with silence. No one tried to talk. No one tried to ask about what's happening. I glanced each one of them and I saw how they arched their brows. Their eyes are asking me some questions that I can't definitely answer.  Even the little girl beside the old woman is giving me a confusing stare.

"Look, I don't want to upset any of you" I said in a teary eye. "As what I’ve said, your just probably mistaken me, Sir!." I looked at Kaedan Again.

"I didn't see any similarities of me and your wife. I didn't mean to offend you but please, stop insisting and just leave me alone" after I uttered those words, a bunch of tears fell down.

Muling tumahimik ang buong kwarto. Pakiramdam ko nasa gitna ako ng isang interogasyon. After a minute of silence, the old woman clear her throat.

Naagaw niya ang atensyon namin ni Kaedan.

"We also don't know why you kept on insisting that YOU.ARE.NOT.ALYS." she finally talked in a very strict voice I had ever heard.

Ramdam ko ang pagdiriin niya sa mga huling salitang inusal niya.

“Let's just say that your accident caused you an amnesia. Kaya hindi mo ma'recognize ang Asawa't anak mo. Kaming lahat" ani niya na may pa gesture pa sa hangin. "But, you must probably AT LEAST...recognize your face here" She took something inside her bag, its a looking glass.

Her tone told me that she is tired of listening our argues. I don’t want to take it but I'm also curious what's with my face that made them sure and insisted that I am the woman their claiming of.

Iritable ko'ng hinablot ang salamin na inaabot niya sakin.

"Tss..bastos talaga" pairap niyang bulong bago muling bumalik sa inuupuan niya kanina.

Wait? Ano 'to? Wala sa sariling binali baliktad ko yung salamin na hawak ko. Baka kasi mali lang yung nakita ko. Baka kasi yung mukha ng asawa ni Kaedan naka'attach lang talaga sa salamin. Built in ganon. Ayssssttt.

"No" ramdam ko ang panginginig sa boses ko. "Hindi maari 'to? Panong... ? Imposible"

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Author's POV :

If you are reading this, probably your done reading the first part of my story. First and foremost THANK YOU SO MUCH for spending time. It's really mean a lot to me. Please leave your comment if you like it and see yah on the next part..

Love lots,
macfab 😘🌺