First Love

Kabanata 5

Mother

Sunday, it supposed to be my favorite day of the week but I am just here lying in my bed. Still thinking what to do, ugh. Why this day become so colorless for me? I gazed at my wall clock, it says 9AM in the morning. Ops, not healthy to eat passed nine!

I immediately run out from bed and take a bath. After that I go to the kitchen and cook some breakfast. Srumbled egg with malunggay leaves and tomato juice is fine for me. Habang busy ako sa paghahanda, my phone beeps.

Yurki Boy:

He is a Navy Commander. Only son of McCorten Raven Stevenson, German, the owner of the biggest State of Whiskey in Northern America, son of Lexiana Marya Stevenson, his wife, a filipina who came from Iloilo and later on she was married to Stevenson and One Vodka Stevenson is their only son and an only heir but he refuse to hold there company and chose serving his county instead. He sailed here in the Philippines for personal reason. That's the only info I have.

Napangiti ako. Such a good cousin. Sa apat kung pinsan, Yurki is nice and sometimes grumpy kaya sa edad bente kuwatro ay wala pa itong naging kasintahan. In the other side, my serious slush Engineer cousin, Moncke is straightforward and proper, and no girlfriend since birth. He said, 'Being single is a blessing, I can travel whenever I want and I will never get tied for a girl and ended up as under dog over in my gorgeous and sexy body? Hell, no!' That's his line all the time so don't bother asking him why he doesn't have a girl.

And Syren, she is a type of girl who prefers ocean. She is an eco warrior, she had her degree in Harvard and then she pursue her masterial in United Kingdom, she took Law but she later on change her mind. Lastly, my cousin, Martina, who prefers travel the world. She is smoking rich at age of twenty, doesn't have a boyfriend since birth aswell. Finished her degree in Moscow at age of nineteen, been in seven continents.

See how different? I rather be in my clinic amd get drown by my book and my patients. Call me lola or magiging matandang dalaga in the future but hell, I have my standard in a man. Not to metion, my stupid heart aches in love. Duh, those years are naive and dumb version of myself but I always seek for the better side of life, not in my love life!

I ate my breakfast and I decided to go in the mall, titingnan ko lang ang mga bagong release na libro sa National Book Store, I'm a bookworm kind of person who loves to eat potato. Those stares is really creepy, geez, I don't ashamed being an Austevores but those stares really not suit my sight. I am here to have my sunday freedom not to be a celebrity or what. Spare me from sarcasm.

"Miss Austevores!" A lady in her late fourties come in my direction. She look so simple in here black dress with a Chanel purse in her other hand. It's clearly me. Alright. I smile as bright as I can and she greet me with her widest smile.

"I thought I will never see you, goodness! I am been roaming around here for hours good thing I saw you. Can we talk?" That was straightforward. I don't know even know her name. "Uh, may I know your name, Ma'am?"

She put her hand in her chest like she's hurt or something, I panicked! Shit!

"Oh, dear, sorry for not telling you my name. How rude of me, by the way it was my pleasure to meet you, I am Lexiana Stevenson. Nice to meet you, Ralia"

Oh, boy. Kahapon, I have a dinner with his son, now his mother! Why so mysterious, Stevenson? Wew. There family name doesn't call any bells in my head.

"Aw," I said in awe. I can't still believe I am meeting his mother here, okay, he is my admirer and he is not my suitor at all. But, ugh! This is frustrating.

"Sorry to surprise you, dear, but can you come with me?"

Talk, come. Really?

"Okay, Ma'am. Where to?" I asked politely. Naiwan sa parking lot ng mall ang sasakyan ko dahil nasa loob na'ko ng Limousine ngayon. Yes, Yurki is right, they are hell of a rich! Yes. I am with his mother and I don't know we're going.

"So, how are you?" She asked. I am just sitting here just like a puppy. Her aura is bright and classic, simple but elegant. "I am fine, Miss Stevenson" I replied. She made a heartedly chuckle.

"Drop the formality, Ralia, my dear" She said.

"P-Po?" I said in shock. She said something to the driver and I was startled when I saw our house. How the effing in earth!

"W-Welcome to our house, T-Tita" I said. The door open and she just smiled at me. "I really like surprising people, hija. Don't worry, I'm not a bad girl" She said.

I stepped out in the limo, the white painted house give me peaceful feeling. I am home. Mama is on her day off, I guess, as well as Papa.

"Lexiana!" Gulantang wika ni Mama. Okay, this is getting weirder. Mama glance at me. "I guess, you two already met!" Magiliw na wika ni Mama.

"Anak, this is your Tita Lexiana Marya Stevenson. My best friend in Med School! Geez, you really love to surprise me all the time. Where's your cute son?"

Oh, no. Now, I knew it. Fuck.

"Oh, nakasunod lang iyon.."

Shit. Shit. Shiiiiit!

"Sorry, I am late" That deep and hard voice. I am not hallucinating or dreaming, he is now beside me. Looking at her mother and my Mama, shock plastered on Mama's face. Maski ako ay nagulat sa presensya niya, and seconds our eyes met, my heart is in speed again. It took my breath for seconds and all mattered to me is his hand round wrap in my waist.

Oh, Jesus. Guide my heart.