Linked To You

LTY 1: Encounter

Yanika Alvarez 💋

Hearing the birds chirping outside my room is the best music ever. It always feels like a healing moment for me. Let's just say I am a dendrophile. I mean I just love nature in general. 

The sun rays slowly filling up my room through the glass windows and I immediately got out of my bed to stretch out.

I walked towards my balcony and the cold breeze came to hug me as I open the glass door. That made me shiver a bit. It's the season of the month were it's starting to blew cold breeze. This is me everyday, appreciating mother nature before I start my daily life.

My home is located uphill and it's surrounded by plenty of tall, green and healthy trees. I have a few neighbors here but they are a bit far from my property which is kinda good because it's peaceful. Matches a girl who always looks for peace and serenity.

After few minutes of self-reflecting, I went downstairs to prepare my breakfast but to my surprise I can already smell the aroma of a delicious food from the stairs immediately.

I ran to the kitchen and... "Good morning hija! Breakfast is ready," a familiar voice greeting me out.

"Nay Luvy?" I asked in shock when I saw her preparing the table in the kitchen. "What are you doing here Nay?" I curiously asked.

(Nay – is a term/endearment added when you call someone like a mom or your mom. It came from the word "nanay" w/c means mom.)

She's one of the loyal maids we have in the family. She was assigned to me before since the day I was brought to this world until I was a teen who still live with parents. But after my adolescence and officially turning into an adult, I began living independently. 

My parents opposed it because they don't want me to be far from them but I insisted. In the end they supported me without a word. They were very supportive of me and I am lucky enough to have them as my parents though. 

Again, yes, when I said living independently it means living alone, away from my family. But because they do love me very much, they still send maids from time to time to help me clean my house, do the laundry and to even cook for me. It's hard to do those alone specially when you have a large area to maintain. But they don't stay with me, they come and leave at night when I come back from work. 

Am I not afraid? Well, no. The subdivision is heavily guarded and you can't enter unless you are given access or invitation from the owner of the house you are visiting.  My entire property has strong security features that it would be hard for people to break in. My mom and dad are great worriers and they needed to make sure that I am well protected since I am living alone. The funny but sweet thing about my parents.

It even made them hire the best of the best architects and engineers in the entire country to make sure that my house is safe and equipped with advanced technology to keep me away from harm. One feature is that only registered fingerprints and faces can enter my house and I would get an alarm if someone will try to barge in. 

"Aren't you happy to see me hija?" she asked as I was approaching the dining table. 

"Of course, I am Nay," I told and went to hug her. Yes, we are really close and I didn't really treat like a maid but as my second mom since she was basically one of those who took care of me when my parents are both busy with the company and their businesses. "I haven't seen you in a while since mom and dad always sends me someone else," I told her in a sulking manner.