The Ex-Girlfriend's Return

CHAPTER 1 : Father Me a Child

Dylan's POV

December 2013
From: Lorraine Cruz
"We don't need whole day to conceive a baby."

From: Dylan Lopez
"Lorraine, it is not going to be that easy."

From: Lorraine Cruz
"Why not? There is you and me...and that's all we need to have a baby."

From: Dylan Lopez
"We're too far from each other.
There's no way for us to spend time together."

From: Lorraine Cruz
"Well, now you are considering the distance.
That means something, Dylan!"

From: Lorraine Cruz
"I can go visit you there if you're worrying of the distance.
Or, we can meet up whenever you're in the city."

From: Dylan Lopez
"Lorraine, what you want is impossible to happen.
I am already with someone."

I know I could hurt her but I am also aware that she's not going to stop, for now, if I will not tell her that. Or, maybe I was wrong because my phone beeped once again.

From: Lorraine Cruz
"I know, alright. You don't need to mention that many times.
Look! Dylan, all I want is a baby. From you!
I will never ever force you to take responsibility of 'the baby'.
But, if you want to be acknowledged as the father,
I will not steal that right from you."

What will I do to this woman? She is still stubborn as ever. She does anything and everything to get what she wants whatever consequences there are. She is so persistent even if she knows— surely,4 she's aware of her irrationality — that what she wishes for is ridiculous.

Not that I don't fancy being with her again. In fact, I have always imagined how our next encounter would be like.

After our break up, I've only heard about Lorraine by coincidence. One time I had unintentionally read in an international news article that she made it a success to be one of the few financial analysts in the country. She is truly smart and persevering. At 24, she is a flourishing top financial analyst of the #1 corporation in the Philippines.

Also, there was an incident when I overheard my cousins talking about her. They do not actually speak about her when I am around, because they think that I still weep for our split up.

From: Lorraine Cruz
"Dylan, please do consider.
I promise not to bother you and your girl after I get what I want."

I breathed out!

Five years ago, she turned down my marriage proposal without giving out any explanation. I gave her time to think because I thought that's what she needed for a while. I gave her space for a few days and another week, and another calendar month had already turned in yet there wasn't still a single word from her.

I tried to reach for her, beg to her parents and followed her everywhere she went...but she never wanted to see me nor talk to me.

She never gave our relationship a second chance.

So, after a year of letting myself go through misery, I finally gave up.

We never bumped into each other for five long freaking years and that's because she avoided me like a plague. And now she's coming back like she hasn't done anything wrong. Seriously, what has gotten into her?

And why the hell do I still bother to respond to her messages? Curiosity? Maybe. For, I still wonder what would have been if we never parted three years ago, if she never rejected my marriage proposal, if she only gave our relationship another chance.

Probably, we already have preschooler or children by now, or we are together at the moment with our kids spending precious time in a cinema, or we are celebrating another baby coming on the way.