Sila

Alden

Author's Note:
I love this song so much that I was inspired to do a song fic about Maine and Alden. This is my first work so please bear with me. I do not know them personally so whatever thoughts I placed here are all fiction.
Listen to the song SILA by SUD to get the feels while reading.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2IMODbij0lZ5CuAjZi0IDE
Or just check the MV in YouTube.

CTTO for the pic used as cover.

PS. Planning to make a chapter based on Maine's POV if this turns out okay.
PPS. Thank you to the authors here in Wattpad who inspired me to write as well. 💛
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It's been years since I entered this industry, years spent building my career just so I could fulfill my mother's last wish.

First, I thought of just giving up. The thought of spending so much time and working so hard for something that seems so far from my reach had me questioning my desire to make do with my promise.

My mother would have understood. She is after all a caring and understanding mother.

I did try, you know, but showbiz is an entirely different world- difficult to enter but even more difficult to remain in, I would think.

However, as these thoughts filled my brain, I felt shame. Shame for even entertaining the thought of breaking my promise to my mother. Shame for easily giving up, despite not trying hard enough.

So despite the lack of progress in my career, I held on. I stayed. Even if people just referred to me as "The Poor People's John Lloyd", I didn't care. I entered this world because of my mother. I was already in. I chose to remain.

Good things come to those who wait, they said. And wait, I did.

Matagal-tagal din nawalan ng gana
Pinagmamasdan ang dumadaan

The world of entertainment is a game of chess. It is a game of strategy, of tactics. Each person play an important role on winning the game, much like chess pieces. A person becomes a King, a Queen, a Knight or a pawn.

I was proud to have been someone's Knight. I knew she was special and I wanted to be there when she gets a checkmate and wins the game of showbizness.

Unfortunately, she apparently had a different tactic. One which included letting me go.

So the once mighty Knight became another sacrificed pawn.

Never again, I told myself.

Lagi na lang matigas ang loob
Sabik na may maramdaman

For years, I closed my heart to any prospect of love less I experience the same disappointment. Once was enough. Getting hurt the first time is on her. Getting hurt another time is on me. You have learned your lesson, smarten up RJ.

I guess I did smarten up. I dedicated myself to my work and my family, never even thinking about the opportunity for love. What I did not know was God had a plan- and what a plan He had.

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"Alden, any wish for lovelife this 2015?" one of the reporters asked.
I laughed good- naturedly.
"Hanapin na lang po ako ng lovelife."
I was serious with my answer. Given my past experience and my priorities, I had no time to go looking for love. I had moved on, but I will not go chasing for love either. If it comes, it will and I shall welcome it. If not, then I shall be patient and wait. Again.

Baka hindi pa panahon ng love sa buhay mo RJ, I would tell myself.

Little did I know how fate desperately wanted to prove me wrong. Because prove me wrong, she did.