Each Other

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Today was Sam's mom's birthday party. Lorraine's 60th, so it was a pretty grand one. This was part of the reason Sam opted to stay for a whole month instead of the 3 weeks.

She sees Jaime and Anthony walking in. Sam waves, but she sees another man walking right behind them.

Matt was invite by Lorraine, Sam's mom. Their barkada has grown close with each other's family so if their Tita Lors invites one, all of them are invited as well.

He was walking while trying to fix his suit when Matt sees her from afar.

She was in a nude jumpsuit and white shoes. Hair in light beach waves.

Sam looked lovely.

"James!" Sam calls out.

The two lovely ladies share a beso, "Nasan si Tita Lors? I have something for her kasi."

Sam takes her by the hand and leads her inside. " Tara, I'll go with you inside, she's there." She turns to Anthony and Matthew, "Tony, Matt, sama kayo?"

"Yeah. Sige, we were gonna greet her din naman."

The four of them go inside. On the way, they each take a glass of either wine or champagne that was being served.

They finally see Sam's mom.

"Tita Lors, happy birthday po!" Anthony starts.

Lorraine, Sam's mom, smiles wide at them. She starts hugging her three extended anaks, "Ay, mabuti naman at nakapunta kayo! I haven't seen all of you together in ages, puwera dun sa kasal niyo (re: Jaime and Anthony hehe)! Buti naman at nagtugma lahat ng schedules niyo for my birthday."

"Oo naman po, Tita. I made sure these two, " Jaime motions to Anthony and Matthew, "Cleared up their day for you."

Lorraine is suddenly called by one of her friends, "O siya, sige. I'll leave you guys to it muna. Joy (Jaime's mom) said susunod na lang daw siya?" She asks Jaime.

"Yes, po! May tinatapos lang daw po siya sa office."

The night went on and it sure was such a fun party. Music was just right and the food was great.

The four of them had their own table, probably even the loudest one in their knowing them. But Matthew's has been noticing Sam. Something seems a bit off because she's constantly going inside that house.

"Guys, wait lang, a? I just need to go check on something real quick."

While Anthony and Jaime seems unbothered, he's curious. This was her third time.

Sam walks back in the house again and Matt's eyes follow her. However, he sees her head upstairs so he thinks she's probably just gonna do a touch-up or a quick conference call. He shrugs his curiosity off.

Little did he know that Sam was constantly going upstairs to check on Miguel. Maybe because it was the rapid change in weather but her little boy has been sick since yesterday.

She goes in the room to check if he's sleeping, and he was. His yaya was also in there.

"Kakacheck ko lang ho nung temperature niya, bumababa naman po," his yaya says.

Not caring about her ayos, she takes a seat on the side of his bed and caresses his head, "Mabuti naman. Pakicheck-check pa din, ha? Medyo mahaba-haba 'yung party ni Mommy but I'll still try to come up here as much as I can."