The Promise

Chapter 3

"I lived my life alone. I grew up in an orphanage being a so loner. I never socialize with anyone, even so they did to me. i talked only when needed, especially when Madam Eliza talked to me.

"When I reached 13, a childess couple adopted me. That time I didn't know what to feel: should I be happy that I will be having my own family? Or sad, that I'll be away from the other orphans. Though I'd never interacted with them, i felt belonged and loved with and by them.

"A month later the addoption, lumayas ako sa bahay. My foster mother did loved me, I just didn't know about his husband. He tried to molest me.

"I accidentally killed him, or I guess it was my only way to free myself from the dreading experience. He's kissing my body and tearing away my shirt. He gripped my hands and pushed them against my bed. My right arm struggled to free his grip, and when I did through planting forcefully my fingernails against his skin, he gripped a lock of my hair.

"My free arm struggled to search for something in my bedside table. Tiniis ko ang sakit ng ulo ko para lang may mahawakan na bagay galing sa mesa para makatulong sa akin.

"NAkapa ko ang isang ballpen while he's kissing my neck, my breasts and bites them. A i took hold of the pen, sinaksak ko ito sa leeg niya, malapit sa tenga niya.

"Bloods spurted.

"nanginginig na ako when he gruntd and freed my other hand and hair and humiga siya sa bed sa tabi ko habang hawak-hawak ang leeg niya.

"as a reflex, tumayo agad ako nun. He struggled to take the pen away from his neck, and when he did, with his left hand covering the deep bloodful hole, he tried to go near me.

"NAtumba siya bago pa niya ako mahawakan ulit at saka ko siya iniwan sa kwarto na duguan. Kinuha ko ang tuwalya na nasa pinto at tumakbo palabas ng bahay, palayo doon.

"Malayo-layo na din ang natakbo ko nun at nakapunta na ako sa isang park na di ko alam kung paano. doon ako nakita ni Mrs. Brook at tinulungan niya ako. Siya na ang naging amo ko noon at pinag-aral niya ako. She had treated me i don't know if like her own child. When she migrated to Canada, pinamana ni Mrs. Brook ang bahay na ito sa akin."

 "Ah so that's how you got this house. So kind of her." Si james. This is my second time to tell my story. Isang taon na kaming magbestfriend ni Yani pero never pa niya nalaman ito except dun sa fact na wala na si Rexter, until now.

Pinilit na kasi ako ni Yani na sabihin to dahil nagugulumihan na daw siya tungkol sa nangyayari sa akin. Lalo na daw nung pinaghahampas ko ang weirdong lalake sa school. At ang tungkol sa card ni Rex.

"Yup. And during my stay with her, pinag-aral niya ako. Pero parang parating galit siya sa akin. Feeling ko nga noon I was her slave na dapat sumunod agad sa mga sasabihin niya. With that I thought that life really was not fair with me, and my teenage life was miserable.

"Pero nung namana ko nga itong bahay, I was still lucky. I realized eventually na yun nga hindi naman pala talaga ka-unfair ang buhay. And that she still loves me.

"Nasali ako sa isang gang. Hindi ko naman ginusto yun eh. Yung first boyfreind ko ang may pakana nun. Classmate ko siya noon at ang tanging paraan para makasali siya sa grupo ay ang mag-recruit ng iba pa. Unfortunately for me. Tsk!

"I broke up with him immediately and planned to quit. But it's too late for me, may isang lalaki silang dinala sa hideout at halos pinatay na sa bugbog. Myembro daw dati yun na gustong mag-quit pero hindi pinayagan at nawala na lang bigla at hindi na nagpakita sa grupo. Kaya nung nakita nila uli, halos namatay sa bugbog at pati mukha di mo na makilala."

"Napaka-harsh naman nung mga yun. Pero buti na lang at nakawala ka sa kanila..."

Biglang huminto si Yani sa pagsasalita. "Teka lang Alice, wag mong sabihing naglaho ka na lang din na parang bula sa grupong yun?!"