CRY OF RELEASE

PROLOGUE

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Shot of Sin.

               Shot of Pure Pleasure.

"Please release me, let me go
For I don't love you anymore
To waste our lives would be a sin
Release me and let me love again..."

[Now playing: Release me - Engelbert Humperdinck]

Being a daughter of a politician is not an easy life to live with.

You should always be one of the best.

Be best in everything.

Of course, you should be.

Because....

All eyes are on you.

Waiting you to make a great mistake to ruin your father's name and dignity.

Like a snake to its prey.

Just waiting a right timing to bite you and kill you with its poison, or worst eat you --whole!

Bodyguards are all around you.

To watch you...

            protect you...

                       save you...

and will never harm you.

Yun ang buong akala ko.

They are hired to do all those job for you --for your safety.

But everything changed...

my beliefs, opinion about life...

and my dreams.

Because of what happened...

when I was 5 years old.

I was kidnapped --by my own trusted bodyguard.

Its a month of full torture, pain, and emotional breakdown.

Yun yung punto ng kabataan ko na imbis mag-isip kung bakit araw ang tawag sa araw --buwan sa buwan --bituin sa bituin... sa sino ba dapat ang pagkatiwalaan ko? --dapat ko ba syang pagkatiwalaan?

Are they trustworthy or not?

Hindi ko alam kung paano ako nakaalis sa mala-impyernong kulungan na iyon --kung paano ako naka-survive, at kung paano pa ako nanatiling buhay despite of wanting just to die in an instant --than living a life, full of miseries.

Nagising na lang ako isang umaga --nasa pink na kwarto ko na ulit ako --na puno ng manika, laruan, rainbows and unicorns, fairytales... a total wonderland that you always dreamed to have as a clueless innocent child.

Pero dahil sa pangyayaring iyon, everything changed. I suddenly hated everything that is pink, sinira ko ang mga manika at laruang meron ako, pinagtatanggal ko ang ulo, kamay, paa ng mga ito. I even cutted their beautiful blonde hairs and dresses, ayoko na ding manood ng mga pambatang palabas.

I hated watching fairytales.

Because in reality,

the world is not magical at all but full of cruelty and torture.

That's why instead of dolls... I became fascinated in holding and playing guns, a toy that can protect you and save you.

Power and money are the most important things. Kung wala ka ng dalawang ito, hindi ka makakasurvive --you will die just like that, without fighting and a helping hand. Yung malulunod ka na lang sa sarili mong dugo.

But then... a year of living like a human vegetable, yung nakatulala ka lang --mulat ka nga pero ayaw mong gumalaw. You are breathing normally but deep inside you are actually suffocated... and dying.

I met Freda Ysabel Wilford; maganda, mabait, madaldal pero maldita. Isa sa kambal na anak ni Ninong Frederik at Ninang Leysa, an heiress like me --she changed my life. Hindi man nya nabalik ang dating ako, nabigyan nya naman ako ng bagong dahilan para mabuhay.

Araw-araw ka ba naman nyang daldalan ng kung ano anong words of wisdom daw nya, na kesyo wag ka daw magsayang ng pagkain dahil pasalamat ka nga may nakakain ka, ang iba wala.
Pero ang pinakatumatak sa akin na sinabi nya ay...

"Buti ka nga nabigyan ng pangalawang pagkakataon kahit sa anong klaseng bagay pa iyan, basta nakatanggap ka ng second chance... cause not everyone who wants it, will have it. Kaya ang swerte mo pa rin... to experience a second chance in life. Choice mo na lang yun kung gagamitin mo sya in a positive way or not --live it or kill that chance given to you. But still be thankful... nevertheless."

That's why I chose to live my life again... the way I want it to be.

No fear... caution... limit...

nor rules.

Because I am...

DOMINICA FALCON,

The Senator's rebellious daughter.