Invisible

Chapter 34

It was a fresh afternoon the following day and I have nothing to do in the Espanto's house so I was just in the living room watching some cartoons with Lyn. Ever since Darren went out of the house and started to have some exposures to the network, I have taken his obligation of taking care of Lyn. I was never really a good one when it comes to kids, but thank god coz Lyn isn't one of those kids who give people a treatment of tantrums.

Lyn was this rare type of kids who behaves in the corner of the house whenever she feels like it. Just give her some juice box from the fridge and give the remote control of the tv and she's solved. What a great kiddo she is.

The two of us watched Phineas and Ferb together silently, with a bowl of chips in front of us. We were already watching for almost two hours, you can consider it as a PandF marathon. I stood up from my position on the floor and went to the kitchen to find TitaMarinel.

"Tita, I'll just go for a while," I informed her. "Just... have some walk around the place."

She peeked at me through her shoulder and smiled. "Sure," she said and checked over at Lyn. "I guess the kid has her own world for the mean time," she laughed as she looked at her youngest kid who seemed to have her own world with the tv.

"I promise I'll be back before you know it," I said.

She smiled and there was a part of me telling me that there is something up that I don't know. I wonder. "Sure," she said. "Don't take too long okay? We'll be eating dinner very soon."

I nodded at her and went out of the house in a heartbeat. My feet dragged me to the nearby field. The sight of the fully bloomed stargazer lilies showed themselves to me. One thing that this country has marked to me was the good temperature. I sat under a big tree and just breathed the fresh air in my lungs.

It didn't took me long enough to feel bored and decided to call it an afternoon. I stood up from my sitting position and was about to get back to Darren's house, only to be grabbed back by a grip on my arm. I rolled my eyes.

"Don't you at least have anything better to do?" I asked Athena as I faced her. The usual teasing smirk was still plastered on her face and I felt like I want to rearrange her face's formation.

She faked a pout and it just made me want to rearrange her face's formation even more. "Is that how you greet your older sister?"

I rolled my eyes and made sure she sees it. "I hate to beat this up to you, but I don't care if you are my sister or if you are related to me by blood or whatever bullshit makes us be sisters." I gushed out at her and thrashed out of her grip, ending up being released. "Can you please find some other things to do than to just be wherever I am and grip the life out of my arm?" I asked her, "And aren't you supposed to be in the city too, coz you won that competition? Or does the management despise to give you any exposure coz you might be some sort of a reason that would make the network drop their rates?" I teased her as I laughed and found myself being successful when steam nearly escaped her ears.

"I am here for one thing and one thing only." She said, emphasizing the cause of why she was here. "As I have said, Nicole, I won't stop until you hand Darren to me. I deserve him more than you do."

"For as far as I know, my boyfriend isn't a material that is meant to be handed to anyone, especially to you." I said, "And as he have said it, you don't deserve him. I do. He loves me and I love him back. And have you ever heard that love is powerful that it can destroy everything in the path?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" she chuckled. "That's complete bullshit, Nicole. You said you want me to leave you alone, right?" she asked, "Then I would do that once Darren is mine."

I want to laugh at her. "That's more bullshit, Athena." I finally burst into chuckles. "What if I tell you that Darren and I have already made love? Darren gave his all to me and I did the same thing to him," I said, not minding if she would spill the information to everyone. Maybe the fact that I opened my legs willingly for Darren before would make her back away. "And you know what happened after we exchanged climaxes? Our relationship became stronger. Stronger that not even you can be ever capable to destroy it, so get the hell out of our lives."

Her face didn't fail to show her anger and hatred. "I don't care if you already did that, what I care about is Darren," she pushed. "i'm telling you, Nicole. You don't deserve him, I do!"

When she said that, I felt like every negative feeling in the world engulfed me. I didn't have time to think twice when my hand finally collided to her cheek. God, I have been dying to do that to her. "I don't care of who you think you are, Athena, or what you are in my life," I said, trying to pull myself together, "But I want to tell you that you have to get your own life and maybe try to be less desperate,"

"How dare you—?!" she said, rising her hand and aimed to slap me, but I was lucky enough I was fast to block her away and slap her before she could do to me.

"No, how dare you!" I exclaimed, "How dare you to do such mess in my life, when all along you don't even fit to be a part of my life!" I screamed at her face. "God, Athena, you don't know how much I want to slap you endlessly. You don't know how much I hate to see your face or hear your fucking antics!"

"Fuck you!" she cursed at me.

"No," I shook my head, "Fuck you, for destroying my bond with my mother. Fuck you for being so desperate. And fuck you for being such a slut who tries to get someone else's boyfriend!" the feel of adrenaline in my veins defied my control, and I failed to stop myself before slapping Athena hard, I am not sure if I would leave a mark on her cheek or not.

Not waiting for a response, I went off and ran my way back to the Espanto's house. I looked at my arm and saw that Athena has once again proved her power grip to me. I sighed as I rolled down the sleeves of my sweater. The last thing I need is for the Espanto's to think I am such a troubled girl, even though in reality, I really am.

I opened the gate and found myself face to face with TitoLyndon. If it wasn't for his outfit, I would think he was Darren because of the features that they share. "Oh, there you are," he says with a smile, a smile to wide it made me want to ask him if there's a big gift in the house. "I was about to look for you."

"Uh," I stammered and held my arm, making sure that no one would see the now fully vibrant bruise. "Is there something wrong?"

He laughed, the sound so masculine it reminded me of Darren. "No, silly," he says, "I was going to find you coz we're about to eat dinner. Marinel said she was calling you, but then we realized that you left your phone in Darren's room."

I scratched my nape. "Uh, yeah, I kind of did," I chuckled.

"Yeah, you did. It just confirms why you weren't answering my calls either," the sound of his voice instantly made me have goose bumps all over my body. Hell, it even made the hair in my nape rise. "Hi, Nic,"

There stood in the doorstep was my dashing boyfriend. I don't know how it happened, since he was just away for a matter of a week, but hell, he looked so good. I think the city has been doing him a lot of favour. Me? Well, my jaw was comfortably having a good rest on the floor as I stared at Darren.

"You got her whipped, son," TitoLyndon's words made me snap back to reality. The two men just laughed as TitoLyndon clapped Darren's back before he gets back inside to help TitaMarinel with the table setting.

I felt my cheeks pick up some tint and turn into a tomato. I've been with Darren for so long, I don't know why I still blush so much whenever I see him. He walked up to me and hugged me and it took me long enough before hugging him back. "I miss you," he says.

I tried my best to process everything fast. "I miss you too."

Darren was here. I just can't believe it.

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I don't know if this is worth the wait, but I tried. I hope you like it! Once again, I'm sorry for being so irregular in updating chapters, but with or without school, I'm really the busy fella. I wish you guys understand.

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