His Other Life

Chapter:30

Tinago ko muna ang basahan para makausap siya. Lumapit siya sa'kin at sinampal niya ako.

"How dare you use our studio para sa sarili mong worth." She said. "And for all I know, you don't even have worth. You're pathetic and cruel. Such a disappointment sa pamilya."

"Sumosobra ka na ah!" Tinulak ko siya at napaupo siya sa sahig. "I may be just a regular person but I can never stoop to your level of hacking my account to make me look bad."

"That's a lie!" Tumayo siya ulit at akmang sasampalin na naman ako pero pinigilan ko siya. "Let me go!"

"Para ano? Para ipakalat mo na sinaktan kita? Go do it!" Binitawan ko siya at tinitigan ng masama. "Pero don't cry like a kid in front of the media to look like a victim, nakakasuka."

Biglang pumasok si Tev sa shop na may sugat at pisngi, may black eye at putok ang labi.

"Ivy..."

"Tev!" Tumakbo ako sa kaniya, purposely pushing Sacey. "Anong nangyari sa'yo? Bakit ganiyan ang itsura mo?"

"Hindi na importante." Yumakap siya sa'kin ng mahigpit. "What did Sacey do to you?"

"Wala. I'm fine." I told Almira to take him inside the office para magamot ni Ninang Helena. Susunod na sana ako kaso biglang hinigit ni Sacey ang braso ko.

"Where are you going?" She raised a brow at me.

"Sa kaibigan ko. Bakit? Anong pake mo?"

"Kawawang Ivy...you don't even know that he was a part of the plan."

"Anong kaulagan na naman ba 'yan Sacey? Nakakasuka ka na nga nakakasira ka pa ng araw. I don't even know why people still put up with you." Hinigit niya ng malakas ang buhok ko. "Aray!"

"Atleast ako maganda." Bumitaw ako sa pagkakahawak niya.

"Kung ganiyan ang definition mo ng maganda then call me a goddess." I said then saw her eyes turn red.

"Unlike you na wanna be na maganda, I have talent-."

"Eh bakit hindi umuunlad ang Film Gram? Bakit sinasabi nila na puro ka lang pa-cute sa camera? Bakit hindi kayo kailanman umabot sa 'Highest Ranked Management'? Kasi wala kayong inatupag ng Ninong mo kundi puro pag papa-cute. As far as I can tell you look like my worst nightmare."

"Whatever, as long as kasama namin si Tervian sa plano na ipabagsak ka then you're still at the bottom."

"Sa baba na kung sa baba, basta hindi kayo ang kasama. People who succeed in life start at the bottom."

"Pero ang pinaka successful people, like me and Ninong are always at the top. Never once was from the bottom." Amputakteng mind set pala 'yan. "Makaalis na nga, hindi bagay ang beauty ko dito."

"Oo nga. Doon ka sa kanal." She gave me a glare before leaving.

Pumasok ako sa office at nakitang binebaby ni Ninang si Tev. Ninangggggg! Wahhhhh! Nakakahiya naman!

"Uhh Ninang pwede ko po bang kausapin si Tev?" Tanong ko.

"Oo sige go. I'll leave you here with this adorable grown man."

"Ninang may anak ka na." Paalala ko.

"Tanga ka, Ivy. Hindi kasi ganoon." Umalis si Ninang kaya umupo ako sa tabi ni Tev.

"Inaway ka ba ni Sacey?" He put the ice cream down and looked at me.

"Hindi na mahalaga."

"Lumaban ka Ivy?" He asked. "Sana sinabi mo na lang sa'kin, I could've protected you."

"Bakit kailangan mo pa akong protektahan? I'm not useless!"

"Wala akong sinabi, Ivy." He tried to calm me down pero nakakainis na!

"Pero ganiyan naman ang nasa isip mo diba? Kasi hindi ko kayang tumayo sa sarili kong mga paa? Pare-pareho kayong lahat! Lahat ng sakit at pamamaliit ang tiniis ko, I'm back to Ivy Mercedez...the girl you first met. The cold, stubborn and heartbroken one. But the difference now is that I don't want to cry out my emotions anymore...I don't want to not feel pain anymore, I don't...I don't want anyone to comfort me anymore. That also means that I don't want you to look down on me anymore."

"I never looked down on you, if that's what you think. Ivy when I met you my life had no direction. Literal na walang direksyon, hindi ko alam kung kakayurin ko pa ang hirap para sa kinabukasan ko dahil mayaman naman kami pero iba ka kasi." He said then pushed his hair back. "I'm me...when I'm with you. And if being with you means being your comfort then I will stay. Hindi ko hahayaan na wala ako sa tabi mo, in the worst and even the best moments of your life. Hanggang sa dulo, Ivy sasama ako sa'yo. Because you're that important person into my other life. My life not as a Celebrity but as me, as Tervian Dutch. You're that one person who represents my other life. That happy one."

I'm...his other life?