Healed Wounds (Madrigal Series #1)

HW #14

Parents

Si Dad ba ang lalaking tinutukoy ni Tita Thania? Kasi kung siya nga ang lalaking iyon, hinding-hindi ko siya mapapatawad sa kademonyohang ginawa niya. He is my father. I respected him, cherished him and loved him.

But that was before, hindi ako si satanas na kakampihan siya sa lahat ng mga mali niyang ginawa.

I need to ask my Mom about all of this. And I will make my Dad pay for everything, kung siya nga ang gumawa ng lahat ng 'to. Ruining my man's family was like ruining myself too.

I thought, I have an almost perfect life, but I was wrong. Living on this planet, I realized that there are so many things that we didn't expect to happen. You're lucky if it is a good news, but mine was the opposite.

And hearing the truth from my own mother, sent daggers through my soul and made me hate my Dad for everything. Kahit alas dose na ng hating gabi ay pinilit ko pa ring umuwi sa bahay dahil sa mga katanungan ko.

"I married him because I love him sweetie. Alam kong may posibilidad na gamitin niya lang ako para kalimutan ang babaeng mahal niya hanggang ngayon. I took that risk, all because of love. Kahit na durugin niya ako ayos lang sa akin dahil mahal ko siya. I tried to protect him from all his wrong doings, I took care of everything because I really love him." She honestly answered me with sadness in her eyes.

No! My mom doesn't deserve this kind of love. Somehow it makes me remember my old self, dying because of loving the wrong one. But that wrong one proved me that he can be my right one. He will never be like my Dad.

A living jerk. A demon. An obsessed freak.

I can't stop myself from hating him. He used my mom, ruined someone's family and ruined ours too.

"How could you accept him Mom? Ginago ka niya, alam mong may iba siyang mahal pero bakit? H-how, just how could you sacrifice your self because of that undeserving guy?" Words came out from my mouth like a whisper.

I stared at my beatiful Mother, smiling despite of those tears and heartaches my asshole Dad have caused.

"Eventhough he loves someone else, masasabi kong minahal niya din naman ako anak. He protected me back when we are in highschool. At no'ng college, he became my bestfriend and my feelings started to change when we got so close. I was planning to confess to him but I stopped when he said that he loves Thania, Thad's mother," She smiled while looking at me. That pained me more.

"Of course nasaktan ako ng malaman ko'yon pero dahil mahal ko siya, tinulungan ko siya kay Thania. I talked to her and we even became close! Pero no'ng sinabi niya sa akin na mahal niya si Jave Madrigal, somehow nasasaktan ako para sa bestfriend ko, pero ano pa ba ang magagawa ko right?" Mom smiled.

Reminiscing the past made her smile geniunely. I held her hand and motioned her to continue. Gusto kong marinig kung ano ang nangyari sa kanila noon. Somehow she resembled me.

Back to those days my love for Thad was so strong? Kahit naman ngayon mas lalo iyong tumibay.

"Sinabi ko sa kaniya na may mahal na iba si Thania, he just smiled at me and uttered some words that made me fall for him deeply, sinabi niyang sana ako nalang ang babaeng minahal niya. I hold on to that. I confessed my feelings for him, but he said he was sorry because he can't give me back the feelings I felt for him. Dahil do'n umiwas muna ako sa kaniya. Nasasaktan ako pero kailangan kung gawin 'yon para sa sarili ko. Pero nagulat nalang ako isang araw, pinuntahan niya ako sa classroom and he keeps on shouting my name, nilapitan ko siya asking what's wrong but instead of answering, he hugged me and that's when are story started. " Her last words came out like a whisper.