Wasted (A BCWMH Fanfic)

Wasted - Part 11

“Ma, I can explain.” He had to stop himself from stammering. Richard felt like he was an errant little boy once more, caught sneaking out to play under the rain.

Doña Esmeralda rolled her eyes. “Sure you can, Ricky.”

Her son cleared his throat. “By the way, Ma, where’s Papa?”

“Oh you know your father when it comes to business. He just had to join a last minute meeting with a possible partner. This caused him to have to rebook his flight.” She raised her eyebrows in annoyance. “Hay bahala siya, edi nauna ako ng uwi sa kanya. Don’t change the topic Ricky, di ka makakalusot sa akin.” She tented her fingers. “Let’s begin with the identity of the mother of Anton.” She tilted her head as though thinking. “You’ve never shared anything about who you’ve been in involved with for the past years or if there ever was anyone to begin with.” She made herself comfortable on the chair. “Apparently, by the look of things, there is someone.”

Richard remained silent and instead focused on clearing up the board game that his children left.

“Why,” His mother continued her musing. “The last woman you’ve dropped hints about was Maya, Abby’s former nanny – yung naging flight attendant right? And we all know nothing came out from that.” Doña Esmeralda waved her hand in emphasis as she threw a glance at Richard, who immediately averted his gaze. “Oh-ho-ho-ho, Ricky,” Her eyes widened. “Wait a minute. Don’t tell me – is Maya the mother of Anton?”

Richard gave a terse nod.

~*~

While her co-FAs idly chatted about the turbulence that they encountered, Maya was hurriedly walking to their destination. After all, she had another flight right after the one she had came from.

“Ma’am!” Maya tapped the senior flight attendant holding a clipboard.

“Ah Ms dela Rosa,” The woman consulted the list. “It appears that you’ll be placed on reserve for now.”

“Po?” Maya asked, confused. She was sure that she had a scheduled flight.

“Yes, Ms Viray covered for you in your next flight as your earlier flight was delayed, resulting in the swapping of schedules.”

“Ah, ganun po ba,” Maya wringed her hands. “Sige po, Ma’am Clemente, I’ll just get my luggage po then I’ll wait for further announcements here.”

Minutes later found Maya twiddling her thumbs back in the same room. Unfortunately for her, the crew had been very efficient in directing her luggage to the plane of her next supposed flight upon alighting the previous one. This leaves her with waiting for a next flight, baggage-less.

Maya took out her phone and scrolled through the numbers until she landed on Anton’s (or rather, her old number). She was about to call but she caught sight of the time.

“Naku, siguro nag-siesiesta yun ngayon,” She thought. “Mahirap pa naman yun patulugin, baka mahirapan sila sa mansyon kung magising ko siya.” Anton had been staying with the Lims for the past days while she was assigned to handle international flights. His half-siblings had insisted that he stay with them during their sem break as opposed to Anton going back to San Nicolas. Maya had acquiesced, knowing that her son looked forward to spending time with his newly-found older siblings.

An hour later, Ms Clemente approached the group of FAs waiting for their schedule. One by one she called them to give them their flight details.

Maya was the last to be called.

“Ms dela Rosa, it would seem like you’re free to go for the day.” Ms Clemente smiled at the last attendant. “All the other flights have been covered and you can head on early for your rest days.”