Second Chance

THE CHANCE BEGINS

This tale of crossed fates and destined love begins its first chapter in present-day San Francisco, at a cemetery where the Johnson brothers mourn the loss of their father. While Brandon's heart is filled with hate for this bad card dealt to him by fate, his half-brother Travis is filled with gratitude for his dad. A few months later, their mother Monica decides to move to London , her native country, along with the two sons.Arnold is excited about the news, claiming that he knows a friend who can help them settle down there. This angers Brandon, however, who is reluctant to leave the place he calls home to live in the country where, he says,"Anorld ' prostitute mother" lives. While packing for the trip Anorld discovers a single slipper which apparently has great sentimental value to him. He then flashbacks to 1996, when he was still a child in Cebu. After his mother tried , he makes up his mind to go to London to find his father, after being informed by a neighbour that his real dad can be found there. He sneaks into a boat bound for the city, and while hiding, encounters a fellow stowaway - a girl just about his age, who is adamant about having someone occupy her hiding place. Bokbok.Anorld's ' nickname as a child, names his new friend Poknat, after he notices her sporting a scar on her head. After several acts of kindness, Poknat eventually warms up to her new friend, and reveals that she decided to go to London to help her mom. She even plays the guitar and sings for her new friend. This was interrupted, however, when a member of the ship's crew hears them. Bokbok quickly tells Poknat to hide, but he is quickly discovered and brought on deck. After a brief scuffle, the boy is thrown in the ocean; but Poknat, who witnessed this, quickly jumped herself to save him. The two cling to Poknat's guitar, and by nightfall a few fishermen find the two on an Iloilo shore, unconscious and half-dead. They wake up in a hospital, where the mayor himself offers to help the two children find justice. This proves to be the end of their paths, however, as Poknat is to be returned to her mom in Iloilo, while Bokbok will be sent to London to look for his dad, an American . The two bid each other a tearful goodbye, but not before Bokbok hands his best friend a slipper as a remembrance, and promises to write her regularly. Poknat, whose name is actually Gold Patricia . Gold , eventually travels to Africa with her mom Emily, who finds a job there as a maid to George and Clara Soriano.Gold quickly becomes friends with their amo's daughter Camille, and tells her all about Bokbok. As time passed, Bokbok's letters mysteriously stops. But despite this, she couldn't bear to part with the slipper Bokbok gave her. Unbeknownst to her, however, the real reason for this falling apart is the scheming Camille, who answers the letters herself and keeps in touch with him under Gold's guise. In fact, it was also Camille who Anorld contacted and asked for help, ten years later to the present day.The other pair still lies in Anorlds' possession, and he brings it back to the Africans . Camille welcomes them at the airport along with George and Clara, and invites the balikbayans into their home. Clara was extremely pleased with Camille and Travis' setup, because their family is very rich; however, she treats her maids Emily andGold quite the opposite. After angrily ordering Emily to serve the food faster and not keep the guests waiting, Gold offers to help her mother and serve the guests. She quickly runs into Anorld who was on his way to the bathroom to clean up a food stain; ironically, she spills a whole bowl of fruit salad on his shirt. Surprise suddenly turned into familiarity, however, when the two look at each other and sense a connection they cannot comprehend, but instinctively know.

Clara quickly apologizes and takes her to her mother, where she shamelessly reprimands the two. A tearful Emily apologizes for Gold's 'mistake', but Clara warns her not to let her daughter be in the way again. Clara tells her daughter to just follow what she says, and not be like her father. After this, Gold was at school with Romeo (who goes to great lengths to hide his homosexuality from his father, who's a police officer) and decided to watch their friend Kevin as he qualifies for the swim team. The three quickly notice Anorld , who was trying out as well; but when he sees Gold , Camille tactlessly addresses her as their katulong (maid). The former grew upset over the matter and tells her mother about it. Emily then asks Camille to give a little respect for her childhood friend, but the girl disregards her plea. In school, Anorld and his friend Haba desperately tries to copy during an exam, but they get caught and Anorld is seated beside Gold. He then tries to copy from her, but Gold turns her back on him. After the exam, Anorld and Haba lament the possibility of repeating fourth year when Gold and her friends pass by. Haba angrily berates them, calling them losers; and soon a fight ensues, with Kevin throwing the first punch. Anorld quickly defends his friend, but an angry Gold promptly clocks him in the face herself.

After the fight, the students were brought to the principal's office, where everyone was reprimanded for the trouble they caused. Camille falsely claimed that Jasmine started the fight, but the principal disregarded this nevertheless. In order to help Travis with his studies, however, the principal assigned him a tutor: Jasmine. Upon returning home, however, Jasmine and Emily were confronted by an angry Clara, who demanded to know what Travis has done to deserve the trouble in school. Camille angrily confronted her as well, and an infuriated Jasmine answered back - to which Emily quickly apologized. George caught the proceedings and apologized to them as well for his wife's treatment, but the two just shrugged and sadly went back to their house. The next day Bianca, Clara's sister, arrived at their house; and while everyone welcomed her warmly, her sister was somewhat reluctant to see her. Meanwhile, Travis tries desperately to make amends with his tutor for his misgivings, but Jasmine constantly turns a deaf ear. In one incident in the library he accidentally surprises a screaming Jasmine, but when they get caught Travis claimed that it was he who shouted, and let loose with a girly scream of his own! Jasmine accepts Travis' apology for getting her out of hot water. Kevin, however, remained doubtful on Travis' true nature. Camille also warns Travis rather falsely that Jasmine is not who she seems. The two get along more and more, however, and Travis' grades start to improve with Jasmine as his tutor. Back at home, Emily tries to make peace with Camille for Jasmine's sake. George sees this again and tried once again (though somewhat unsuccessfully) to apologize for his family's attitude towards them. The weeks of tutoring finally paid off, and Travis got a 92 on his exam! He happily hoisted her in celebration - but quickly gathered himself and put the blushing Jasmine down. After, Travis mentions to her that he senses a connection with them, like he's regaining a lost memory. And so the two begin to get close.

Camille happily tells her mom that she and Travis are getting more and more close; but Clara reminds her to stick to the plan, lest she end up like her father. But this isn't the end of her problems... Travis begins to doubt Camille, thinking that she doesn't seem to be the Poknat he grew to love. Besides, Travis is now beginning to fall for his tutor Jasmine, with whom she's slowly opening up to. So when Camille dismisses the slipper she "received" from Travis, the latter gets hurt because he can't understand why this has no sentimental value to her anymore. A desperate Camille tells Travis she loves him, but her plea falls on deaf ears. This doesn't faze her, however, and uses a charity event in their school to get her and Travis together. Meanwhile, after a swim meet, Travis is alone in the locker room when a janitor comes along, and tells him to decide with his heart in everything he does. His confusion, however, is overshadowed by Jasmine's when, at the same time in school, she meets a blind man who tells her that time is running out. Strangely, the blind man seems to look like the janitor

Jasmine remains shaken by her encounter with the blind man, but shrugs it off and turns her attention towards the school's Halloween auction, where she and Camille are both up for bidding as dates. Kevin and Romeo happily offered to help Jasmine with her wardrobe and preparation, while Camille, on the other hand, was saddened when her mom seemingly forgot this event. Meanwhile, Travis secretly bought quite a number of votes for Jasmine, but was shocked to learn that he had more votes for Camille (which votes she bought herself, under Travis' name). He then tried to cancel these, but during the night of the auction, it was Kevin who ended up with Jasmine, who received the most number of votes and got a standing ovation upon her entrance to boot. Camille did not get Travis as her date, but was even more heartbroken when she and her dad got home. After her mom dismissed the auction night as nothing of importance, Camille tearfully confided in her father that Clara sometimes doesn't treat her as her daughter. Jasmine, on the other hand, was in for a very, very long day. First off, Travis finally declared his love for her; but a shaken Jasmine told him that they would be better off as friends. Later, while she was telling Romeo all about it, Kevin told her that she made the right decision, and in so doing giving her a clue that he liked her as well. When Jasmine got home she asked her mother about it, who replied that sometimes, the heart can make wrong decisions, too. All Saints' Day soon arrived, and for Travis it would get even more cryptic: while he and Jasmine were studying, he saw the janitor who approached him recently, holding flowers and some candles. Jasmine asked him who he was looking at, but when Travis glanced back, the janitor was gone.
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