II. FEAR

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i dont want to scare him but i unknowingly did. i know everything that happened in his life but i ended up hushing it all up. its not the right time to reveal everything to him. not in this state of his mind. my mom and i got a maddening discussion about this meet up. he still wanted me to hide in the shadows but i say its already time. hes suffered enough as it is, i dont want to add on his burdens. the humans that i left him with, i mistakenly judged them. well at that time they were nice people but as nhu's talent came into light, they did everything to get money out of him through contests that he doesnt even want to join. i wanted to get him out right then and there but my mom's shadows pulled me back in. i want to claw him to his core but both of my dads pinned me down and made me submit. its not in my nature to do so. not that i could easily bend them to my will, its just im greatful that time. nhus just turned 10 then.

enough is enough.

hes been through a lot.

once when he was 16, i deliberately planted a scout to make his parents agree to let him join mss under my supervision but i never thought hed became so popular hes loosing sleep in the get-go. ive hunted down his manager and terminated her from her job. shes too ambitious for a newbie like nhu. i understand he must rake up fame because hes a new-comer but not to this extent where he could only eat once a day and sleep for as little as 2 hours at most. shes like killing him under mss name. i even terminated her supervisor when i found out that she crawled up to position without much struggle by sleeping with him.  shes handling few more celebrities and most of them buckled down due to stress. it was always chalked up in the report by the supervisor. after all that, i spearheaded a team of examiners to evaluate each employees in every departments. from the vp down to the janitors, we did background checks. i say i should have done so before nhu even came but i was too hung up on the mafia business and re-reading reports on nhu while i was away from the country. after the evaluation, we had lay off almost a quarter of the employees, mostly they're unqualified, has shady dealings with other companies and cohorting with some higher-up for favors and lastly has been in confirmed conspiracies in mishandling celebrities. no wonder why there are few hopeful celebrities who wants to sign up to our company. during the time of the first president, kaownah, it was blossoming and the company was well off with as much as 500 to 1000 celebrities but now, we only got around 300 and its trouble all the same. after 4 years, the company was on track and ive expanded the companys scope of business by adding studios and acquiring frequencies where we air shows on cable tv. ive been too busy but never too busy for reading reports of nhu. be it on magazines, interviews or even on the net. im so proud of him. the new department we established to regulate the celebritys schedule made it possible to monitor both the celebrity and the handlers as well.

then recently, ive received reports of him having a breakdown due to family reasons and that made me finalized this move. mom finally consented. so here i am, him in my arms.

finally.

finally

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