Not a Perfect Tale

Chapter3: Truth

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May itinatago ba sa akin si Mrs. Jones? Bakit kamukang kamuka ko ang batang nasa larawang ito.

Kahit pilit kong alisin sa utak ko ang posibilidad ay hindi parin mawaglit sa isipan ko na hindi malabo mangyari iyon. I've known her for 10 years but she didn't mentioned me anything about this...that she's my real mother. Why did she hid it from me? Why didn't she tell me about this earlier. Tapos ngayon ko pa malalaman kung kailan wala na siya dito? Kung kailan hindi ko na mahagilap ang presensya niya!

I shook my head as the tears involuntarily flow out from my blurry eyes. My hot tears turned cold as it touches my chilling cheeks. So all this time alam niyang anak niya talaga ako, but she never told me?

All those memories that we were together flood inside my head. She's unbelievable! She's selfish for not telling me the damn truth! She's a mother for godsake! She should've known how it pained me believing that my parents had left me at a very young age, left me without even knowing their real name.

And now, she's nowhere to be found! She left me again leaving me puzzled and confused. What a great mother she is!.

Is Mr. Jones my father too? malamang.

I have a lot of questions in my head but they're left unanswered since Mrs. Jones was nowhere to be found.

While my tears are continuing to gushed down my face my gaze turned to the little envelope above the table where I found the frame. My hands are shaking while trying to grab it. I opened the envelope then saw that there's actually a message.

Dear Avyanna,

I know that you're frustrated and confused by now daughter, but let me explain first. First of all I wanted to say sorry for not telling you the the truth; for I'am just scared that the Wicked Witch of the dark forest might found out about you.

Me and your father made a huge mistake that we never knew It will lead into something horrible. Sweetheart, I'm actually a Nymph who's made to protect the forest In your father's town and he's only a simple elementalist who accidentally saw me at the woods. Noong araw na nasilayan niya ako'y palagi na siyang pumupunta sa kagubatan upang hanapin ako, ipinaramdam niya saakin na wala dapat akong ikatakot sa isang tulad niya sapagkat mabuti siyang wizard at hindi niya ako gagambalain and so i believed him. Since the day we met he never leaves my side and so we made a great bond and we fell inlove.

But the things that we didn't realize was that our relationship was actually forbidden by the law in our world, but we didn't care because we knew to each other that our love was too strong and even the law can't do anything about it. So I want you to remember that Love is like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop, so better stop it hanggat maaga pa ayokong mapagaya ka sa kapalaran ko.

Hanggang sa nakarating sa kataas-taasan ng Lepidus Terra Merabili(our world) ang tungkol sa relasyon namin. Ang hatol saakin ay ang pagkakatanggal ko sa pwesto ko bilang tagapangalaga ng kagubatan. We're both scared that we will never be able to see each other again so we asked for helped but we didn't know It's the most regretful thing we did.

We visited the land were we met the Wicked Witch of the Dark Forest. I'm desperate knowing that I'm pregnant, It just made me want to do everything just to give my daughter a complete family. Hindi kami lumapit sa mga Good Witches sapagkat paniguradong hindi sila papayag sa gusto naming mangyari because It's against the law.

Humiling ako sa Wicked Witch na maging isang tao at pinagbigyan niya naman kami. Ngunit nang matapos na ang ritwal saka niya lamang sinabi ang kabayaran sa natamo naming hiling. Kaya naisipan naming iwan ka muna sa kamay ng iyong Tiyahing si Matilde kapatid siya ng iyong ama kaya malaki ang tiwala namin sakanya, ngunit labis akong nagsisisi nang malaman kong sinasaktan ka nila. Ngunit mas natatakot akong sabihin saiyong anak kita sapagkat parehas tayong papatayin ng Wicked Witch.