Fated Strings

Chapter 4: Ai, Love you

"A man once told me, 'To be careful when trying to fix a broken person. For you may cut yourself on their shattered pieces."

Irene's POV

Baby Ai, tandaan mo. Hindi minamadali ang pag-ibig. Wala kasing undo oh do over yan, kung nagmahal ka, dapat panindigan mo kasi hindi lang ikaw ang masasakta kung pumalpak man ito.

My Mother was an honest person; she was also smart and caring. Her inner qualities were a match with her beautiful exterior.

Ang swerte talaga natin Irina, sayo kasi nagmana ang anak natin. Haha Ang ganda ganda talaga ng Baby Ai ko.

On the other hand, My Father was a hard working man, but he still made his family a top priority among all other things. He was kind and gentle. He was solely devoted to my mom, always reminding her of how he loved her, and her to him. That is why I find it hard to believe that something so pure and true before would turn out to be something so wrong.

I was only eight when everything about my perfect family changed. My father started drinking occasionally and would sometimes refuse to go to work just to get drunk. They fought and fought all night about things that I was too young to understand. I was ten when I finally realised that the fault was not of my dad's.

He had found out that my mother had an affair with another man just a few years back but kept it all to himself. He still believed that his wife would confess of her misdeeds and he would forgive her eventually. My father loved my mother too much that he was blinded of the truth. He loved her too much that It ruined him.

My mother's affair escalated to the point that she even invited her "other" to our house. What hurt me most was I was the one who found them out.

It was noon and class had ended early. I noticed a flashy new car that was parked outside our house, thinking that It was my father's, I quickly ran inside towards my parents bed room. The image I saw at that time was forever engraved in my mind. So this is love? Was love always this wicked?

I found my mom and a strange man lying naked on the bed. The man she laid with was handsome; he was also obviously rich seeing that he owned that car parked outside. He was the first one to see me standing at the door.

"Irina.. " He mouthed at my mom who then turned to look at me. The moment I saw her face, I knew that the image of my mom that I had before was gone, all that I saw right now was an unfaithful woman who broke my father's heart.

"Ah- B-Baby Ai.. kanina ka pa ba nariyan?-" She clumsily covered herself up with anything she could find. Too late, I repeated in my head.. Too late.

I couldn't stand the sight of her anymore after that. I ran outside, I ran as fast as I could. It didn't matter where I went as long as I ran.. far. I need to go away farther.

I stopped and noticed a large nara tree as I searched for a place to rest; It was a lone tree at the middle of a meadow. I crouched on its roots and vomited, and then I cried. I cried until the sun turned red and the sky's turned darker. My eyes were so swollen that I didn't notice somebody standing beside me. He was a boy, probably my age and it looked as though he cried too.

"Bakit ka umiiyak dito ng mag-isa?" He asked innocently.

"Bakit? Kelangan bang by-group?" pilosopong tanong ko na ikinasimangot niya.

"Sino ka ba? Kanina mo pa ba ako sinusundan?" Tanong ko.

"Hindi ah. Nauna pa nga ako sa'yo sa punong to eh. Dun lang kaso ako naka upo sa kabilang side." He explained while wiping snot and tears from his face.