WHEN LOVE IS JUST A WORD

Chapter 10

WLIJAW#Chapter 10

"Is this really happening?" I heard Ginger ask Kuya Yuri.

"Shhhhh" sagot ni Kuya sa kanya. Of course everyone of us wouldn't want to miss anything, lalo na sa mga sasabihin nina Mistika o Kris patungkol sa sumpa.

Napailing nalang ako nang mapagtanto na natural na sigurong mga chismosa ang mga Gomezes, but maybe human nature is just like that. Atat malaman ang mga bagay-bagay na hindi naman pangkaraniwan.

What was happening maybe is something beyond normal, kung totoo man ang kakayahan ni Mistika ay walang nakakaalam.

"Mistika, wala akong balak dagdagan ng problema ang buhay ko" I managed to say. Nakatingin na kasi silang lahat sa akin, na para bang ako ang sasalba sa mga utang ng sambayanang Pilipinas, eh vineyard lang naman ang pakay ko!

"At isa pa, bakit ako ang tatapos sa sumpa? I didn't even start it, nasaan ang hustisya?" I said coolly kahit na wala man lang nabago sa reaksyon niya. How can she even manage to have a stoic mien in this kind of situation?

Pero bumaling lang siya kay Kris.

"Noong napagdesisyunan mong ibenta sa kanya ang lupa ay saka napunta sa kanya ang sumpa" she said in a flat tone. Walang po at opo.

"What? That is ridiculous" Tila nahahapong saad ni Kris and then she looked at me.

"Wala akong alam! H-have I known of this eh di sana sinarili ko nalang ang lupa. The last thing that I-I would wish for somebody is for him or her to have the life I am living right now" may garalgal niyang saad.

Awwww naman!

I felt her sincerity in that.

"I'm so sorry Genevieve" she said at tuluyan nang umiyak. Nilapitan siya ni Amanda at niyakap.

I was speechless. What was there to say anyway?

"So she's the beneficiary of the curse?" Gillian said habang naka pin-point pa sa akin ang index finger niya.

"How would I benefit in that?" I scoffed at her.

"You gained a vineyard and a curse, positive or negative you still have them both, so you are in the benefiting side" She explained. Logically correct but wrongfully analised. Ang hirap talaga pag madaming laman ang utak mo, natutuliro din!

"Tigilan niyo na iyan" Kuya T sighed at saka nilapitan si Mistika.

"Mistika―" he started but was cut off right away by the kid.

"Hindi ko sa iyo sasabihin ang solusyon, hindi ikaw ang makakabuwag ng sumpa Theo Sebbastian Gomez" supalpal niya kay Kuya, even completing his name. Nakakabilib naman talaga, but then, maybe she researched? Gomezes are popular people so that must be it, hirap talaga akong paniwalaan that someone like Mistika exists.

"Iwan na muna natin silang tatlo" Amanda said kaya wala nang nagawa ang lahat nang nauna na itong lumabas.

Tatlo daw and I was one of the three! Is that a good sign?

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I was looking at the papers on the counter top. They are the documents of the Vineyard.

Napailing nalang ako, kalakip ng mga papel na ito ay ang sumpa na sinasabi ni Mistika―the weird friend of Amanda.

Kahit paulit-ulit na dispensa ang hiningi ni Kriselda Consunji sa akin, wala naman siyang kasalanan. She too was a victim of that curse. Hindi man kapani-paniwala pero bakit nagkatotoo sa kanila?