Just Love

Chapter 4: The Fiancé

I am a Marketing graduate and a Cum Laude. I celebrated and decided to have fun for one, last night before focusing on my career, but shit happens to life. Parang nauwi lang tuloy sa wala ang mga bagay na pinaghirapan ko. Instead of enjoying my freedom from college for even just a week, I'm gonna spend my years swallowed by my own shadows. I am scared of men. Maybe, not too much, but still, I am. I don't wanna be with a guy kahit na sa loob lang ng ilang linggo. I need years but I can't. I have to start my training with the Fortalejo's in order for me to help my father. Franz Hamilton, he is an American born man with a Filipino heart. He really loves Philippines that he traveled all over the archipelago just to witness its beauty. Well, he found different kinds of beauty, the beaches, mountains, terraces, creatures, human's generosity, hospitality, and kindness, but there's this beauty that he cannot remove from his sight - my mom. Their story started all from love at first sight. So unexpected, isn't it? There were few from that kind of story who ended up together as they were. Kung ako lang talaga ang makapagdedesisyon, gusto kong magkaroon ng lalaking katulad ni daddy, he never gave up on us, kahit na ganito... alam niyo na 'yon, 'di ba, naghihirap na kami? Wait, what am I saying? Ako naman talaga ang magdedesisyon ng lalaking gugustuhin ko eh, right? This is my life, anyway.

But... will still that guy accept me after knowing my disastrous past? I am such a mess, so impure. No, I don't belong to anybody, I can't be anybody's.

"Chezca."

I sigh of the thought of having such a miserable life. Oh, stop it, Franchezca, just forget that it ever happened! H-How will I?

"Franchezca?"

"I can't - I don't know."

Lagi na lang bumabalik sa isipan ko ang mga bagay na ginawa niya. I am afraid, I get scared whenever I hear his breath, I am terrified meeting his gaze, I lose sanity upon feeling his touch.

"Girl!"

"Girl!" I yelled back in thunderstrike.

What the hell, I am getting used to spacing out. I almost got my phone thrown away from my hold.

She chuckles, "Pinatatawag ka ni Sir Bryan."

"Oh, okay."

Sir Bryan, pinatatawag ako ni Sir Bryan. Bakit na naman? Para pagmasdan? Para muling titigan nang para bang hinuhubaran? He's a total asshole, you should know that. I could actually say just a word to get him fired but I am not doing it. I don't wanna be scandalous in my own friends' company, and I pity him. Aish, I am too kind, naaabuso tuloy ako.

"Well, well," ngisi niya nang makapasok ako sa office niya. He lean against the backrest of the chair as he run his gaze from my head down to my toes that make me roll my eyes.

"What do you want, sir?!" I said with an attitude.

Manager namin siya ni Iris and I know, I should respect him, but to what he is doing, he is not helping. Dinaragdagan lang niya ang galit sa puso ko towards men. I hate them, totally. Mabuti nga at hindi niya ginugulo si Iris, takot lang niya dahil sa anak ito ng may-ari. God, if only dad allowed me to work on his company, this wouldn't happen.

"I like how you act today, Miss Hamilton." Tumayo siya na nagpaalarma sa akin. Hindi ko alam pero nakaramdam ako ng kaba nang papunta sa akin ang mga hakbang niya.

Bakit ganito umakto ang mga lalaking nakasasalamuha ko? May problema ba sa akin? A-Ano bang tingin nila sa tulad ko?

"So bold," he stated and I felt his breath on my face.

I swallow hard as I step backward, "W-Why are you looking for me? What do you need, sir?"

"You know, I can give you a promotion right away," he said touching my face and I immediately moved from it. "Just give me what I want."