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11:11 AM

hello. is this scarlet's number?

yes. who's this?

it's hale
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11:17 AM

hi??

sorry. do you need something?

how are you?

i'm doing good.

you have a daughter pala. how old is she again?

for what?

nothing. i'm just interested

she's beautiful. she approached me first earlier.

don't mind her.

i can't. as i said, i'm interested

how old is she?

she's five years old, okay?

scarlet, are you not telling me something?

huh?

i'm her father, am i?

what?

stop writing fiction

i am not. i am respectfully asking you, erin.

am i his father?

she doesn't have the shape and color of your eyes. your eyes are black, scarlet.

she has brown eyes. i have brown eyes.

we have the same eye shape. she got the length of the eyelashes from you as well as the eyebrows.

she got her nose from me.

her lips are from you.

but when she smiles, she gets everything from me.

admit it, scarlet. please?

i was gone for five years. we did THAT THING five years ago before people destroyed us. don't deny it, please?

hale, i'm busy.

wag ka namang tumakbo. kahit ngayon lang, erin.

i just want to know the truth

para saan paba?

masaya ka na, hale. wala ka na dapat malaman.

scarlet. i'm not happy.

don't change the topic.

the question is so easy

it's just a yes or no question, scarlet.

am i her father?

hale, seriously. what came to your mind to say that that question is easy?

it's hard for me to answer your question because i don't know what to do because i'm scared.

gusto mong malaman yung totoo?

sige. okay, YES. hailey is your daughter. i got pregnant that night.

happy ka na?

baka magtanong ka pa kung bat hindi ko pinaalam sayo?

your mother wants me away from you. syempre lalayo ako. i don't want to ruin your future, your career, your dreams.

i'm still scared to this day because i might break you after all the hard work you've done. natatakot ako na baka kunin mo sya sakin. ilayo mo. o hindi mo sya matanggap.

hindi naging madali sa akin lahat, hale. so stop saying na madali lang sagutin yung tanong mo kung ikaw ba ang tatay ng anak ko.

thank you for asking.
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