2 Become 1 (Nadech and Yaya)

Too good to be true

"I really don't get it" said Kim as she eyes the girl in front of her. Yaya decided to spill the beans after Kim saw a hickey on her neck. Despite the ton of concealer, the girl has a very descerning eyes. Kim did not stop until Yaya said that she'll do and share during lunch.

"No matter where and what angle I look at it, your status of being together is not clear."

"What we have right now is an understanding" answered Yaya

"Are you in high school or something? Those lines are used by high scool and college students."

Yaya sighed. "We are taking things slow"

Kim's eyes bulge out. "What do you mean slow? You already did the "it" girl." She gestures an open and close qoutation marks as she mentions this to Yaya.

"I mean being commited"

"You know what" she reaches for hands of Yaya. "This is what I fear for you as a friend. When it comes to relationships you are gullible, naive. I am not sorry for my terms and I will not sugar coat this just to please you. I  will be at ease if your situation is different. You are living with a guy, who technically you know nothing.."

"Not nothing" Yaya interrupts

"Okay, fine. you know little about, who wants to have sex anytime he wants..."

Yaya answered, "Kim, i want that too"

Kim laughs, Yaya followed and laugh and lasted for more than a minuted

"That was good comeback" Kim  responded as she wipes some tears.

"Is it that good?" Kim asks.

Yaya's eyes get bigger and nodded.

"Well, at least the sex part is good, but that does not resolve the part that you are like his mistress" she said frankly.

Yaya's eyes looks down.

"Yaya, i told you many times before. You are the sister i never had and I want the best for you. I want you to be happy."

Yaya nods. She understands Kim. She is right. Her rational thought agrees with her.

"This thing is new to me" Yaya answered. "I want to give this, us, me and Barry a try"

Kim sighed and nodded. "Just be careful, the last thing i want to see is you being hurt."

Yaya smiles and presses the hands of Kim as an assurance that she is okay and thankful.

They talk for a few minutes and decided to leave..

Their lunch was a few minutes walk away from their office.

While walking and having a small talk with Kim, her sight now goes to the woman waiting for bus. She knows her, even ten meters away. She knows her for almost ten years, that's what she thought.

Kim noticed that her companion stopped talking and saw where Yaya's looking at.

Yaya starts to walk fast and sees that a bus is also a few meters away to the bus stop, she run towards the woman.
The woman notices and feels that somebody is coming.

Surprise registers the woman's face. The woman assesses which one is nearer the bus or the girl whom she called daughter for almost ten years.

The woman decides to run.

Yaya knows that she is at disadvantage because of her leg, but still she tries to keep up with the woman.

"Mama, mama" she yells..

The woman halts... she misses to be called again by that name. Tears run through her eyes. She can't help it.

Alma turns around and faces her daughter.

Kim runs to Yaya and saw that she is just a meter away from her step mother.

Kim holds Yaya's shoulder, to say that she understands and she'll go ahead.

Yaya nods. She looks at the woman she called mother. All of her emotions are bottled up. Longing, anger, disappointment, care.. all rolled into one. She sees bruises, her blackened eye. How is she? How does she lives knowing she still got a son? It pains her that this woman left her father on his dying days... but her brother lost both parents when their father died.

Yaya asks Alma to walk with her towards the park...

"Tony is third in his class" she initiated.

Alma bows down her head... "Ya, i really don't know where to begin because at this point I really don't know where I am today. All the decisions i made, i thought during that time was for the benefit of my family, I felt suddenly became alone when your father got sick, i also want to give everything to him... but lost everything in the process including myself. I got weak."

"And so you left us? You left Tony? You even took all that what we have and give it to your lover?"

"I cant do anything, i was forced to pay and gambled everything"

"You've gambled the life of your family? Is it worth it? " Yaya's holding on to the last composure that she has, her tears wear nearing to fall... and hatred is eating her up. Her fist grips harder.

Alma's lowers her head.. "i know" she answered.

Silence.

"But i want you to know that never in my life, even when I am away did I not think of what we had, as a family. I made the wrong decisions, i was swayed from things i was told was right but in the end did lose not just my family but also my dignity as a person."

Yaya failed to speak. She run this scenario several times in her head what she would say to her stepmother when she sees her, not now she is lost in words.

Silence.

"What are your plans now?" Yaya asked.

"To run away again" she answered.

Yaya looks at her stepmom, "why?" She said.

"Because I don't want you and Tony to be part of what I have now and see what I have become. I can't even call myself a worthy mother"

"What about Tony?"

"I trust you with his life"

"Have you tried going to the police?"

Alma shakes her head. "They can't do anything about my problem. This peiple are too influential and I am just a pawn on this situation."

"How much do you owe them?" Yaya asked.

"$10 Million"

"Alma!" Yaya shouted because of her surprise.

She runs her hand to her hair. "That is too much, how can you pay such?"

"I don't know where in hell will I get that just to be done with this, that is why I am running away. And I don't want you to be involve.... i should get going" she said and stands up.

Yaya holds her hand "Tony needs his mother, i am not his mother"

"That is why I am trying to be one being away"

"Where are you going to stay?"

Alma shrugs.. "i have yet to know"

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"I really don't get it" says Nadine. "I think it's about time you talk to Uncle Yoshio"

Barry, smirks as he plays the glass of wine in his hands.

"Think about it" Nadine said. He is egging Barry to look into the project proposal of his father.

Barry just nods, he knows his father well. The proposal is too good to be true.