George
6:00 pm. Sunset.
Here I am, staring at the moment where the sun is kissing the ocean to begin a time and thinking what to do in the next hopeful day.
"Ang korni mo naman diyan! Anong drama mo George?" Someone said chuckling.
When I looked at my back, there I saw the famous singer in the country, Stellaluna.
"What do you want?" I asked.
She chucked and sat down beside me.
"I didn't know that the CEO of the Stone Corp. will forget his childhood friend. Ang sungit mo saakin no? Baka di mo na ako kilala." She answered.
"I am Stella Kings. Your childhood friend. Ako yung parating pumupunta sainyo tuwing wala yung tatay mo kasi magagalit siya pag meron kang kaibigan." She added while staring at the sea.
She is lying. Her name is Ma. Stellaluna Kings. Of course I know her, she is the one who I wish was there when my mother die. I never heard from her for a decade after my father married her mother. The last time I heard about her is that she is living with her father and a famous singer, that's it.
"Ano di mo din ako papansinin?" She looked at me.
"You know. I didn't know my mother is having an affair with your father. If only I knew, I would have told you earlier because you are my friend. You told me that you want to have a happy family because your father is always not at home and would fight with your mother every time he got a time to come home. You told me na dapat pamilya mo na lang yung pamilya ko dahil parati sila nakakahanap ng paraan para makapag bonding saakin. And I always told you that, there is no perfect family in the whole wide world. Alam mo bang may mga oras kaming di na nakakapaguusap-usap dahil si nanay secretary nga siya ng tatay mo at madaming ginagawa sa business niyo. Si tatay naman ay driver na nangengelangan ng 24/7 na oras dahil sa ospital siya nagtratrabaho. Sometimes I heard them fighter over kung sino ang magaalaga saakin dahil di nila maharap dalawa dahil busy sila at kung mag hahire sila yaya ko dagdag gastos pa. Kaya naman ibinibilin na lang ako sa kapitbahay naming. I learn many things about life kahit sobrang bata ko pa, mapagood o bad side ng mundo naranasan ko. I sometimes don't get you kung bakit ka inis na inis kung bakit wala oras sayo ang tatay mo eh andiyan naman nanay mo." She said. I'm just there hearing all of her story.
That's true. I badly wanted to have the attention of my dad, but after what he did I forget who he is to me. The love I had for him disappeared the moment he cheated on my mother. I love mom more than anything for she knows me the best and teaches me what I needed to know and more, except for the betrayal of my father to her.
When my mother planned to surprise my father for their 15th anniversary. When she went inside my father's office, she was the one who was surprised. She saw him together with his secretary, cheating. Mom went home crying her heart out. Same day, she called out her lawyers to fix my financial papers same as all the heritance I will be receiving, as the one and only heir of my father and mother's assets. She prepared everything for me that day. The day I last saw her before she takes her own life in their room. I remember what she said to me before she goes inside that room.
"Finish your study and make me proud. I love to see you take over your father's company. Promise me you will be the handling that company, okay? Do not let anyone take what is yours. Don't make mommy disappointed, okay? I love you, baby. Always and forever." Then she went inside.
