Delgado Cousins 1: Anthony Wayne Delgado (To Love Again)

CHAPTER I: THE DELGADO COUSINS

Chapter I

The Delgado Cousins

ANTHONY 

"Ant, someone is here to see you."

"Who?"

"It's your grandfather,"

Bumaling ako kay Mika. Nakatingin lang naman siya sa akin ng seryoso rin...

Then I went out of the dark room where I was in. I couldn't even open the windows or the curtains to let some sunlight in. Since that happened...

I just didn't want to see light anymore...

As if I had lost my light and hope at that time... that same time...

Hinarap ko ang taong naghahanap sa akin. And he was introduced to me as Don Antonio Delgado. He was said to be someone rich and powerful, that even the Zachmann family had paid respect to him and they let him in here to talk to me.

"Anthony... is your name, am I right, hijo?" He asked me.

I was just looking at him. At tinatantya ko rin muna siya...

I couldn't just trust anyone, even when I was told that he was my grandpa...

Pero bahagya lang din akong tumango nang tanungin niya ako tungkol sa pangalan ko.

Tumango rin siya sa'kin bahagya at may tipid na ngiti ang gumuhit sa kaniyang manipis na labi. "It was my son who gave you that name. And he even named you after him..."

He talked calmly. But I can also sense some kind of dangers... As if when things doesn't go this old man's way then it would mean trouble even for me... tsk. What an annoying feeling...

Kailan ba ako natakot sa kahit na ano o sino? I could even end the life of anyone, when I was ordered to as an assassin...

And what did he just said? He told me about my father...

Noong bata pa ako ay nakilala at nakasama rin namin siya ni Mama. Although he frequently went away, and I was only told by my mother that my father had to go and work for us... But then later on I found out that aside from working he also had to go back to his legitimate family...

Bata pa ako noong nalaman din namin ni Mama na namatay daw siya sa isang aksidente... At kailangan din muna naming magpakalayulayo noon ni Mama...

"Why are you here?" I asked the old man.

Tumingin naman siya sa mga mata ko at nagkatinginan kaming dalawa.

"I'm here to get you, and to take you with me, hijo." He said.

Bahagya naman kumunot ang noo ko sa kaniya. What? Why...

I smirked. "Sorry, Sir, but I'm not some child anymore..." I said.

Nanatili pa rin ang tingin niya sa akin na mukhang hindi rin siya patitinag. I feel like no matter what, mas lamang pa rin sa akin ang mga nalalaman at napagdaanan na niya...

And it's not just because he was older, tsk.

Why do I even feel like I was having some kind of a stupid goosebumps just by looking back at his pair of dark eyes...

But then his dark orbs also just kind of brightened a little bit, when the sides of his lips curved up as well and into a small smile...

Bahagya rin siyang tumango, like he's agreeing to what I just said. "You're right. And I don't intend to force you... but then I'm hoping that you'd take pity on this old man, for I just want to be with my grandson..." He smiled at me kindly?