AMACon 3: Oikos - Children

Forgiven

WRITTEN BY:

justinecm16

"Mahal, please calm down and stop crying.. Please." Richard says as he comforts his crying wife.

Why did it have to be like this? If only I was there. If only I could turn back time.

But he couldn't. What's happened has happened.

Their eldest son who used to be the sweetest, kindest, loving child has now become a monster. The opposite of who he was, the greatest nightmare of every parent.

"How can I calm down! It's 2AM and I don't even have a single clue on where Thirdy is!" Maine shouts as she continues to weep.

Please come back home, anak.

Thirdy has been gone for 5 hours now and Maine is completely worried and scared.

He left after he and his father had an argument, Again.

"I know, I know. But the best we could do right now is stay cal-"

Maine runs to the gate as soon as she hears a sound of a car at the gate. "Thirdy, anak! Is that you?"

Thirdy stepped down his car, the dark spots under his eyes were evident and the smell of alcohol was too.

He got into a fight at the bar again? Richard whispers as he stares at Thirdy. He wasn't like this before. What's happened to my angel?

Maine immediately hugs Thirdy but he just ignored her, "Anak, where have you been? Nag-alala kaming lahat sa'yo!"

Maine hugged him tighter but Thirdy just shrugged her off and said, "Get off me, i'm getting my things."

Maine was taken aback, she didn't know what to say. The Thirdy I knew would never do that to me, not to anyone.

"What? Where are you going?" Maine asked and followed him inside. "I'm leaving okay!" He shouts at her. He never shouted at me like that, what has happened to him?

Maine silently cries as she watches Thirdy go up to his room.

Richard hugs her and whispers, "Ako na kakausap dun."

Maine looked at him and said, "You know and I know na hindi sya makikinig sa'yo."

"I'll give it a try."

Richard walked up to his room and finds his son packing his things, "Where are you going?" He says the most calm way possible.

"What do you care?" Thirdy replies, not looking at his father. Anger in his voice was very obvious.

"I'm your father, of course I care." He says and steps closer to him.

"Don't." He turns to him and continues, "Stop it okay! Stop trying to control my life! Stop telling me what to do! Just stop meddling with my life!"

He pauses for a bit then continues again, "Because even if you guys try your best to bring me back you just can't! Stop trying so hard to fix something that's so broken already. Hindi ba kayo napapagod? Kasi ako pagod na pagod na! I don't want to disappoint anyone anymore so i'm leaving your lives permanently."

Richard looks down for a few seconds then speaks, "But I was never disappointed in you. In fact I was disappointed in myself, I can't believe I let you become what you've become. And I'm sorry, pero if you could just give it a try maybe we could fix this."