Once a Wife [English Version]

Chapter 2

January 2007

"WHY are you crying again?" Maricris found her in the room while clearing all the things that were scattered around, they just moved into their new home.

Yup, she sold the house right away after their marriage was officially declared as null and void last year.

"He's married" Maricar murmured and showed the text message that Dominic's common friends sent. "He's happily married, Ate"

Maricris sighed and approached her "Hey, do not beat yourself up"

"Cynthia is so beautiful, " Her voice broke, as well as her heart "Look at her, she looks like a doll! While I look like a goddamn mess!"

Her sister's forehead wrinkled, "That's not true!" Maricris objected. "Stand there, I'll call someone to clean and arrange your house. We'll go out!" Maricris pulled her away from the room.

"Wait, the kids might come home from school--"

"I'll just send them our driver and tell them that in the meantime, they'll be staying in our house. Eury and Eumee could look after Huffle."

"But--"

"Manang Lucing is there, so, don't worry!" She knows that she couldn't stop her sister, anymore. She has a point though, she can't punish herself like this!

She's only 28 and also, she does not look her age!

"Where are we going?" She asked Maricris while driving. "I'm getting nervous, what are you planning to do?"

"I got you a date"

"What!" She gasped! "Date? Ate, I have kids! Not just one but four!" She even showed her a hand with four fingers on it.

"So what? You're single." Maricris replied like it's not a big deal.

It is a big deal!

"I just got annulled, Ate! It hasn't been a month or three, and now I'm going to date?" She's furious, "What would my children think and say about me?"

Maricris sighed, "Oh, C'mon, Maricar, you're not going to get married and have a boyfriend. You're just going to mingle and you have to water that flower of yours"

What the hell?! 

"Ate!" Maricris laughed at her reaction. "I'm not going to have sex with someone whom I've just met!"

"Calm down, I'm just kidding," Maricris said, "Losen up a bit, Icang... Why, when was the last time you and Dominic had, you know?" Maricris asked. She shut up and thought about it. Huffle was already four years old and at the time she was pregnant with their youngest, Dominic didn't touch her anymore.

"See? Certainly, Huffle's just a product of a night of Dominic's dread" She can not deny that. Dominic was so drunk when he got home one night and it just happened, she barely remembered that. She was surprised to find out that she's a month delayed.

"You think that's why he left?" She suddenly asked, almost whispering. "Because I'm not sexually--"

"Stop that, Maricar" Maricris cut her off. "Sex should not be the only basis of a good marriage. Actually, it's just a bonus if the couple is sexually compatible but it should not be the number one factor" Maricris said.

"How about you and Kuya Eugene, were you compatible?" She can't help but ask, they're still together, after all. "He didn't fool you, he never replaced you and left you for another woman"

"We complement each other, Maricar. I told you, sex is not the only basis of a good marriage" Maricris answered.

"Then what's wrong with me?"