The Broken Wife (UNDER REVISION)

Ikawalong Yugto

Escuro's Point of View

"Are you seriously going to proceed according to your plan?" I asked my parents after the family dinner. 

Today is wednesday, a scheduled family dinner that no one in our family can miss or else they will face Terese Matinez's wrath. My lovely mother, Terese, is a kind mother who would always be the one to help first. She's a supportive and understanding one. She really embodies her name as her character is the definition of it.

Whenever my mom and dad wasn't together, my mother would always come back home empty handed even though she was looking elegant when she got out from the house. That just mean that she traded her clothes and things on some mall or person just so she can freely go around the squatter areas to provide things to people living there.

 But she's not perfect, as she gives blessings to other people, they should be willing to give her precious things in return. And that precious things always depends on what she feels and on her mood. There are times where a simple flower crown or flower ring was enough for her to sponsor the child of the person who gave it to her. Sponsor their studies, give them work and even a better place to live in. But there are times where she would ask big for those who wants her help like the certain family who wronged her. They asked her not to continue filing a case against them and she demanded luxury from them in return. Since we doesn't need such luxury from those kinds of people, mom would give it to other people. 

Other than that, she's not perfect as she can be a something that one can't imagine she can turn to, whenever she's angry. It would always end up in complete mess where people would just want to turn their head down while their knees are bended. She wasn't the type of person to raise a hand on someone because her words were enough to make one, regret their actions if ever they even have at least a bit of conscience. 

Mother understands that there would be a day where I will have different house to call home but she instilled to our minds that gathering on a certain day a week is a must to keep our relationship be called family. That is why starting from five in the afternoon, we should have been in the house already. There are times where my friends' families are involved but they weren't that obligated to attend. 

Father, Trevas Martinez, is a dominating person but is like a dog in front of mother. Affectionate to his love ones but shows no mercy on people who messes up to him and his love ones. He loves working and making his company big. He started his own business without the help of their family's company and got successful with it then when he inherited his family's business, he connected it to his, making it an enterprise. 

No matter how much my father loves working, ever since he married mother, he never spent too much time on it afraid of making my mother upset. This made their love life easier as father would really sacrifice everything just for his loving wife on which they taught me to do the same on mine, in the future. 

But for me, I don't believe on such even after seeing them. The world I live in is very dangerous for me to have someone like that. They would just fell for the temptation of money and would end up betraying me instead. It happened once, and I won't let it happen again. Such stupidness almost cost the whole business which father and grandfather worked hard for.

We just finished eating and we still haven't left the dining table because we still have to talk about the events that happened on the previous days that we didn't saw each other. This was also the day where my parents just decided to make me lose the title 'bachelor' next to my name. They wanted me to marry that girl.

I am asking them that question not to make them repeat what they just said but to make them think twice. Knowing mother, for sure they haven't told this to her yet. But knowing her? I'm sure she'll accept it with open arms. I'm not stupid enough not to know what she feels about me and the reason why she left the house other that event.