A Child's Best Interest (Completed)

5

Thirdy's phone rang. It was MJ.

MJ: Where are you?

T: I'm busy, I'm in the middle of something , hindi kita masusundo.

MJ: Okay, focus ka lang sa work. See you.

T: Okay.

MJ: Ah Thirdy, love you.

Thirdy scoffed.

T: Bye.

When Thirdy hung up, tinawag na nya ang driver who went out of the car nung pinasok si Bea.

"Ihatid na natin si Ms. de Leon sa kanila."

When they reached Bea's apartment, di pa man nakakapasok, nakita na ni Maddie and Aston  and pagdating nila kaya lumapit sila. Maddie was surprised to see Bea and was more surprised when she saw Bea with Thirdy.

"Thirdy Ravena? Ano naman ginagawa mo dito? Are you going to take Aston? Ang kapal mo naman, liman taon kang wala tapos-"

Thirdy noticed a motorcycle coming their way  na aabutin si Aston and he was quick to save him, but he was off balanced kaya napahiga sya sa sahig protecting Aston's head who fell with him.

Nagulat si Bea, she didn't notice  the motorcycle coming.

"Sige na, Maddie, ako na bahala dito."

Maddie looked at Thirdy sharply and left.

Bea noticed the wound on Thirdy's hands.

"Thank you for saving Aston. Nakasugat ka pala sa kamay. Lagyan mo agad ng ointment yan pag uwi mo."

"Mommy, we have ointment at home." Aston reminded his mom.

"Aston!" Bea said, almost in a whisper.

Aston took his Daddy's hands and looked at his mom.

"Mommy, you can apply some ointment to my Daddy's hands."

Nagulat si Bea, napatingin kay Thirdy. Thirdy looked at her.

"Daddy, come with me."

Thirdy smiled as Aston led him to their house.

Once inside the apartment, Thirdy  checked the surrounding as Aston went straight to the kitchen and got some water for their 'visitor'.

After they applied some iodine on Thirdy's wound, he prepared to leave.

"I like Aston, sana pagisipan mo ung inaalok ko sa'yo." Thirdy said. "I'll give you anything you want and need."

"Babalik po ba kayo dito bukas?" Aston asked his Daddy.

"Sige." Thirdy replied.

The following morning, Bea had a few misfortunes. She woke up not feeling well, Thirdy arrived at their house and witnessed an accident. Thirdy saw how dizzy Bea has been feeling.

"Ako na bahala dito at kay Aston, magpahinga ka na lang." Thirdy told him.

While Bea was inside her room, Aston keeps on checking up on her. Thirdy saw how worried his son is knowing about his mom's condition.

"Aston, may trangkaso lang Mommy mo, she'll be okay after a day or two. Gusto mo ba magpunta sa park?"

"No, I just want to stay here, baka po may kailanganin si Mommy."

"Okay, then we can just stay here and play."

Aston got excited hearing this from his Daddy. He immediately took out his toys and showed them to Thirdy. He showed the drawings he and his Mom made to decorate his room.

Thirdy was looking intently at the drawings on the wall when Aston from out of nowhere told him.

"I remember where I saw you po. I know you looked familiar." He said and ran outside his room and picked up a box and showed it to Thirdy. 

He saw pictures on him, cut outs from newspaper clippings. He scanned through each one of them and found a small diary with Aston's ultrasound results.

He handed it back to Aston.

"Huwag mo sabihin sa Mommy mo that you showed this to me."

Aston nodded and took the box from Thirdy and returned it where it was placed.

A few weeks after, Thirdy and Bea saw each other again while Bea was on a sales call. Turns out that the client Bea was supposed to talk business with,  will be playing golf with Thirdy. Bea gave in and just let them play while she went to the restaurant and decided to wait there.

While waiting, she dozed off. 

When Thirdy came, he noticed Bea and leaned to check on her, he decided not to wake her up but was surprised to see someone fooling around with her and trying to wake her up. He saw Anton and what he saw was very unexpected for him.

From Anton's peripherals, he noticed someone looking at them, when he looked in that direction, he saw Thirdy. He stood up and walked to him.

"Long time no see." He told Thirdy.

"May mga tao talagang hindi mo naman kailangan makita buong buhay mo." Thirdy responded.

"Pero tadhana ang gumagawa ng paraan. Ako and abogado ni Bea sa kaso nya sa child custody ng anak nyo."

"And you think mananalo ka sa akin? Never pa nangyari un, wag ka na umasa." Thirdy bluntly told him.

"We'll see about that." Anton responded.

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masabi lang na nag update ako hahaha, chareng. let's see kung may kasunod ito sa weekend hahaha diko kasi sure. Diko narealize na napaka complicated pala nitong story na ito huhu