Simula
"Miss Monteverde?" Naga-aalangang tawag saakin ng bagong assistant ni Kuya habang nag aabang ako sa visiting lounge na nasa labas lang ng kanyang opisina.
Isang irap agad ang pinakawalan ko. I can't believe that they really have me to wait in this fucking lounge just to see my brother. Hindi ba oriented ang mga tao dito that I can just basically go directly to his office dahil building naman namin ito. I stood up but making sure na ramdam na ramdam niya ang inis ko.
I walked gracefully to my brother's office still eyeing his useless assistant na dibdib lang ata ang pinasang qualification. Well I bet she wont even last that long. Bukod sa incompetent na, knowing my brother and his ways to female her build is not so secret at all.
"What brings you here?" Bungad niya saakin na hindi man lang nag angat ng kahit isang tingin.
Hindi pa ako nakakapasok ng tuluyan sa office niya pero yan agad ang tanong niya saakin.
I rolled my eyes. "I miss you more my dear brother" I replied in a very sarcastic tone.
Pero mukhang hindi pa rin siya masaya doon. Umangat lang siya ng tingin saakin raising an eyebrow like his getting impatient with me already.
I made my way to seat comfortably on the chair in front of him. "I need a lawyer" I asked.
Well I think his treating this as a business talk after all.
My brother looks displeased with my request. But he didn't even looked surprised at all, mukhang alam na niya ang sadya ko rito.
"What is it this time. Huh?" His dark brooding eyes darted on me. Hindi niya inalis iyon saakin like his not really happy that I was still smiling sweetly at him despite of what I just requested from him.
Kuya and I have differences with so many things in life. Although we somehow resembles each other physically except for one thing our eyes. He got the dark brooding eyes that makes all the girls go crazy for him, but makes me annoyed knowing how he use them to judge me so well.
While I got the soft innocent eyes from our mother. That makes me look angelic in disguise but a little devil in reality as what they use to describe me.
"I got sued by a brand for not showing up on their catwalk" paliwanag ko.
"And who's fault was that?" Mas lalo pang tumaas ng kilay niya. He smiled to mock me para bang hindi niya maunawaan how I take this shit so lightly.
But honestly I dont. I just don't like people seeing me loose my shit. It's not very me. Para saakin everything has a solution because you can't call it a problem if there is no way to solve them. And besides nothing good will happen if I let this negativity gets into me gaya nalang ng mga reaksyon niya ngayon.
Although I hate explaining myself to anybody I have to do it with my brother. I need his help and the only way I could get it is by explaining it to him.
"I missed my flight and I didn't anticipate that it will happen....again" I kind of pause on the last part of the sentence.
Aware naman ako that I have problems with my punctuality but I am finding a solution for that.
And besides it was an accident, who would even want to be left behind by her plane right? I just happen to snooze my alarm clock way more than I should've and I regret it.
"This happens all the time Ania" he let out a frustrated sighed.
I looked down. Hurt by the way he said it but its true.
"Can you just get a proper manager this time?"
"Or maybe you can just stop and help me run this company instead." Dagdag niya.
