All about Joseph

Virgil

"Okay, you be quiet and listen to my story. Well, I would not put any handcuffs on you since you are powerless over me. See this? This is the trigger to that bomb which your girlfriend is already wearing. Do anything stupid and we all die, you like that?" I stayed in my position. He released Rebecca and I went towards her.

"This is my story."

"As you know by now, Joseph, I am your godfather, I was the bestfriend of your dad, an old suitor to your mom. Well, I know that because I have tapped the phone at your house, you are all stupid for not figuring out that by now, okay back to my story. Since I was heartbroken to your mom, I seek refuge to addictions you know too well, Geoffrey!"

With that, I searched the whole theater and saw Geoffrey at the middle seat of the theater. Fuck Geoffrey. He raised his hands and stood up.

"Now, boy, would you come over here?" Lamarte said. Geoffrey went to the stage and surrendered. He could not speak with fear. "Okay, give me your hands! These are waiting for you." Shit. Shit. Shit. Geoffrey was now with handcuffs. "Make any noise or any move, I'll shoot you, understood?" Geoffrey nodded.

"Where was I?"

"With your fucking addictions?" I said.

"Yeah, I seek refuge to addictions, I tried everything, smoke, drugs, sex, every fucking thing. I tried it. By the time your mother and father was to wed, I had the most wonderful gift, I had a son. I had a son with one of the prostitutes I dated. It was the most wonderful thing that happened in my life. Knowing that I'll be a father, I stopped my vices focused on my new duty. That time, I was invited by my bestfriend to be his bestman but I could not go because my son was so young, he needs some guidance. In those moments with my son, I thought that I could forgive my bestfriend and Emily of what happened. So when they invited me on your christening I was there to attend the celebration but I could not yet bear to look at you, Joseph and your parents. I thought that I have fully forgiven them but no. So I just stood there at the back of the event place and did not dare show my face. I just notified them that I was present in the celebration. The only thing that kept me going through the celebration was, Stephen. Even though I hate him so much, I have missed my bestfriend. After your christening Joseph, I focused my time to my only son." I remained quiet, and waited for him to speak.

"He was already 1 year old when you were christened Joseph. The name of my son was Virgil. I named him after the great poet and the great guide of Dante Alghieri. Virgil grew up to be the boy that I wanted, full of hope and faith to humanity, to everything. That almost everybody took him for granted but he didn't mind, as long as he was happy helping other people. You see, he was so selfless that I didnt know where he got it from. Very opposite of his father. Then one day, he talked to me about going home, going to the Philippines. He wanted to know more about his other half. So I let him. He visited to the Philippines and enjoyed his time here by the time he got back to France he told me that he wanted to stay there for a while. So I let him and instead of going alone, I've gone with him. We left France and stayed in Vigan, since Virgil wanted to be near to his home country, France that is full of culture and heritage, everywhere you look so he decided to stay there for a while and again, I let him. He was 18 when he decided to finish his studies in Manila. I stayed here in Vigan to study Criminology and after that I pursued to be a police while he was in Manila, studying Psychology at UP Diliman."

"One day he send me an email saying that a woman tamed her heart. When he told me this, I was very happy and told him that he should take his time in wooing the girl. I asked him what is the name of the girl and where she met him. He told me that time that he doesn't know the name of the girl yet but he met her at one restaurant near UP. It was obvious on his emails that he has fallen hard to the girl. Then one day he told me that, he had the guts to ask her her name and he said that it was Rebecca." He glared at Rebecca when he spoke her name. Rebecca started crying at my shoulders. So that's why he knew.