——RHIAN ANNA 'RINA' POV——
"Nicola," tawag ko sa kakambal.
It been two months since the attacks started, and ever week, we would be attacked by someone, and as if they never meant to kill us, just scare us, harass us with their repeated shooting, or at least that is what we thought, until step-grand father flew to america because their company was being attacked by all sides, and since they flew using private jet, it exploding midair is very scary, resulting to a mindset rooting down on us, as long as we are in the Philippines, no harm will be done to us, just harassments, but it was proven wrong when grandmother was shot by a sniper in broad daylight, so now, we practically never left the house, and the business they have were slowly being driven down tothe grounds even though our step-uncles abroad were trying to fix it, with grandpa, its impossible to fix it, they can't even sent us out for marriage because the other party fear that if they joined in, they too will become a target of those from the shadows. So other than staying cooped in the house, getting raped by our step-father, the only thing I can do is to plan out the ways to escape, Sam blocked me but its fine, I am not expecting from her anyway, but it blocked off some paths leaving us with only one way to leave, we won't be able to bring anything out though.
"Nicola," tawag ko sa kakambal na natulala.
"A-ano yun?" tanong niya sakin.
"I know what is going on with you and our step-father," sabi ko making her tear up and hug me "and you are not protecting anyone, me too, I couldn't protect you," sabi ko surprising her, because with that simple words, she already knew what he had done.
"Let's escape this place, I already have a plan in mind," sabi ko "we won't be able to bring anything out of this place though, we have to procure all of our clothes somewhere else "magkano pa ang pera mo sa pitaka?"
"I still have a few ten thousand," sabi niya.
"Okay, that is good enough," sabi ko.
"Saan naman tayo pupunta?" tanong ni Nicola.
"Kay Dad," sagot ko "be ready, we will leave once my plan worked," sabi ko step-father will be leaving today for the baiting to catch the assassin, I took his credit card, we can tell our idiot mother to rest and relax, make her believe that everything will be fine now, so we will rest, relax, go shopping, and ditch her and leave."
"Okay," sabi ni Nicola, so we quickly acted, telling Mom some bullshit, and gave her the credit card, and as expected, Mom, took the bait so we all went to the mall to rest, relax, go shopping, and at the end of our shopping, with the shopping bags in hand, we sneaked away, taking the taxi to arrive at the house we once live in as a child.
"Wala pa ring nagbabago," sabi ko nang bumaba na sa may taxi.
"Kinakabahan ako," sabi ni Nicola.
"Ako din," sabi ko and pressed the doorbell.
A moment later, we heard movements from within and when the gate opened, I was about to call out 'Dad', but the person who opened the gate is some unknown guy that look familliar, somehow.
"Who the fuck are you?" tanong niya samin.
"Uhm... can we speak to Mr. Alexander Montefalco?" tanong ko.
"I am Alexander Montefalco," sabi niya.
"Nah, impossible, Dad couldn't be young, you are the same age as us," sabi ni Nicola.
"I am Alexander Montefalco Jr," pakilala niya samin "adopted son of Alexander Montefalco, so who are you?" tanong niya.
"Uhm... we are his daughters," sabi niya and he just scoffed.
"Daughters, I don't believe I have any siblings, uncle Jeff said so, that he no longer have any relatives left other than me," sabi niya with a condenscending tone, as if he was looking at us like some dirty object "even in his will, it all stated that everything will be inherited by me."
"What? No, no, no, that is impossible," sabi ni Nicola, but what came to my attention is him denying our existence but the mention of the word 'will' "we are his daughters!"
"Will?" tanong ko.
"Yes, will," sabi niya samin "Dad, died, a two months and three weeks ago," dugtong niya which is a huge surprise for us.
"Xander, anong meron?" narinig kong tanong ng isang babae sa loob and soon after, Sam appeared, making me realize who the guy is.
"Oh... its them," sabi ni Sam and stared at us with a disapproving look "if you are here for uncle, he is dead, you and your Belarmino drove him to his death, so I should tell you this, we are releshing on your misery right now."
"We... drove him to his death?" tanong ko.
"Yes, you drove Dad to his death," sabi ng boyfriend ni Sam, I don't know if I should call him our brother.
"We watched it you know, after hearing his reason for suicide," sabi niya "so, how was it? You two must be having a good time every night with your bitch ass mother, being fucked by your step-father," sabi niya.
"W-what?" nauutal kong sabi.
"Your bitch ass mother were sending her porn videos to dad every month, and the one that drove him to commit suicide is your sex tape, starting from you, crying for Dad, up to the end where you are now moaning and calling daddy," sabi niya "anyway, you are not welcome here, leave," dugtong niya at sinaraduhan kami ng gate, but we already have nowhere else to go, so I pressed the doorbell, again and again and again, wanting to get some clarification.
"One more doorbell and I am calling the cops," sabi ng boyfriend ni Sam na pabalang na binuksan ang gate, ang because of the suddenness, I pressed the doorbell once more.
"That's it," sabi niya and whipped out his phone and started dialling.
"Wait, wait, wait," sabi ko "I just need clarification."
"Sam," tawag niya "go call Aunt and Uncle, they may want to be with this," sabi niya and I suddenly felt like we will be having a hard time in this place, but compared to that place, this is good enough, as long we have somewhere to escape to.
BINABASA MO ANG
The World Traveler
FantasyI who was betrayed once, got betrayed once again. My life became a mess, but fortunately, i got back what I threw away due to my childhood folly. So this time... I will enjoy this new life to the fullest
