Chained Memories

Chapter 20

Congratulations for reaching this far! 2020 may have been a bit rough for all of us but I hope we'd still welcome this new decade with a smile in our faces and a heart pure of love despite of what we had experience for the past months. Happy New Year everyone!

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Overdue

I thought I was ready for everything.

Eversince I knew my family were keeping secrets from me, I've been anticipating for the day to come where secrets will unfold right in front of me.

But then... you'd truly never knew unless you're in that situation.

And that time...

Where I think that was the starting point of all the secrets to unfold... I never expected I'd be coward.

I runaway...

It's so scary knowing that even your family can deceive you.

I am not ready with unprepared confrontation that was why I runaway that time. I heard them calling my name as I set my feet away from that place.

I guess no one expected this would be my reaction.

"Fuck you, Leonor! Why the fuck would you bring her here, huh?" ani Third sa galit na boses.

"Kung ako lang ang masusunod, I wouldn't bring her here. I won't even let her see you again. Never." Mariin na sagot ni Rence.

"Hera..."

Hindi lamang iisa ang tumawag sa pangalan ko pero hindi ko alam kung bakit nangibabaw sa pandinig ko ang malamyos na tinig na iyon.

Of all the people... I never expected him to be... Fuck.

Patuloy lamang ako sa paglakad ng mabilis palayo sa kanila kahit na hindi ko alam kung saan ba talaga ako pupunta. I never knew this place. I just wanted to get away from them.

It's suffocating me.

I wiped the tears that's starting to fall in my eyes. Hindi ako emosyonal na tao pero sa nangyayari sa akin ngayon ay hindi ko maiwasang maiyak.

Ang Third na nakilala ko... at ang Leo na kailanma'y hindi ko pinangarap na makilala ay iisa.

Meeting him isn't a coincident at all.

Of course, there's no such thing as coincidence. Only those fool would believe that. There's always a purpose in everything we do. A reason behind every action.

At hindi ko maintindihan kung bakit.

Why do they have to go through that length?

Sky-Leo's ex girlfriend accused me of something I didn't even do.

She told me I was the reason why the two of them broke up, at doon nagsimula ang mga bagay na hindi ko inaasahang mararanasan ko. By the time Sky was still here, I never knew about Third-Leo's existence.

After her disappearance, that's where I met Third who became unexpectedly my friend.

Does it mean... everything was planned all along?

Knowing that the reason why Sky was so angry at me, and the guy I treated as my friend were one, hindi ko alam kung ano ba dapat ang maramdaman ko.

I felt so numb.

It's like I'm breathing but I'm slowly dying inside. Hindi ko na alam ang gagawin ko. Kung sino ba ang dapat na pagkatiwalaan ko. It's like people around me would spit nothing but pure lies.

Dalawang araw na ang nakalipas mula ng mangyari ang hindi inaasahang katotohanan na iyon.

Rence were trying to talk to me but I won't let him. Nakakulong lamang ako sa loob ng kwarto ko. Only Jerem was the one who can go inside. Siya ang nagdadala ng pagkain ko.