Million Dollar Marriage

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"We need to do something!" Tarantang bungad nina Asia at Nathalia habang pumapasok ng unit.

Nagtaka naman ako dahil ngayon ay hindi na nila kasama si Tita Florence, Nathalia must've noticed it kaya naman nang dumiretso ito ng kusina upang uminom ng tubig ay nagsalita ito.

"Tita went on to buy something at the bakery store sa baba." While she drank the whole bottle of water down.

Habang patuloy ang kuda ng kanilang mga bunganga ay napatahimik nalamang ako. Things are getting out of hands kaya I better do something about this bago pa tuluyang mawala at mag back out si Yago sa plano, because once he does, I am doomed for eternity. 

"Ah! Milana, do you still have your old pictures with Yago? The ones that aren't yet released to the public?" Asia's quick thinking might be my hope of solution.

Nag doubt ako ng sandali bago ko kinalikot ang cellphone at tinignan ang mga lumang-luma na mga files and such. Because as far as I can remember, Yago used to compile our pictures together and send it to me via mail or through text messages and since I can't longer access to those of via text, my only resort are the mails he sent me. 

"Shit! It's here..." Ang tanging nasabi ko nang mahap ko ang mga sent files na galing sakaniya. 

Nathalia clapped her hands in excitement, "I would like to see some nudes! Excuse me, Asia, I can't even see from here! You need to make usod."

I thought I have seen all his emails to me, but this one in particular, has been named as 'hasta entonces, mi cielo', his last dated mail for me two years ago. It's still unread and left to rot, kung hindi ako nagkalikot ngayon dahil kailangan ay tiyak na hindi ko ito mabubuksan.

Sa sobrang excited ni Asia na makita iyo ay siya na mismo ang nagpindot nito, I even laughed at her action. 

Then, a picture popped on my screen.

It was a black and white close-up picture of him, while a hand  was cupping his face and directing him the camera, he was looking intently at someone far beyond him. You can tell how he felt at that exact moment, he was damn happy. The way he smiles genuinely at whoever's in front of him and the way how his eyes twinkle in pure happiness, it was a package. 

But the things is, both the hand and his face held the true meaning of the photo. Because the hand that's caressing his face has a ring on it. A scintillating halo and bead-set brilliant diamonds that encloses a 4-carat in it and more of the stones as a band of the ring, as light is gathered and mirrored together with the flash of the camera.

"A-Are y-you..." Hindi na natuloy ni Asia ang sasabihin dahil siguro sa gulat.

And all I did was to nod at her. It was me who took that picture. It was I who's holding his eyes at that moment.

It was me with a ring on my finger.

Nathalia shrieked loudly beside me, I quickly covered my ears dahil sa tinis ng boses niya. 

"You must post that! That will silent them all, just like how it muted Asia's loud and dirty mouth."

Asia threw Nathalia a glare and slapped her arms after she finishes her. 

Well, considering how the agreement and all, I don't see any misfit that it will cause between me and Yago. He already moved on, so do I, kaya ang tanging gagawin ko nalamang ay ang ipost ito sa aking social media accounts.

I've decided to give him a heads-up, so I texted him.

Milana:

Yago, I've decided to post a picture of you in all of my social media accounts! Be sure to like it though. Wala naman sa terms and conditions mo na bawal.

It's been decided that I will post first on my facebook account, since it has most of my followers. 

"I won't be adding anymore captions to it, bahala na sila umintindi. It's difficult to explain when they do not know." Before I clicked the post button.