Twist of Fate

CHAPTER 8

ALLEONA

"You are not going home mama?" Zatch on the other line, crying.

Napanguso ako, hindi ko alam kung maaawa ako o matatawa. Ang cute cute nya.

"Sadly baby hindi. Mama has work work—"

"Pero po kahit nang wowork ka uuwi you here parin mama. Why not now po?"

I sighed. "This one is different baby.." i heard him cried harder on the other line. Mga iba nya pang mama ang kasama nya since wala si ate Lini at nasa trabaho. "Ganito nalang baby, pag uwi ko dyan.. we will go to your favorite play park! How's that?"

I heard his sobs lessen. "Really mama?"

I nodded even he can't see me. "Yes naman baby, I promise."

"Okay mama, wait kita po. Wuv you!"

I chuckled. "Wuv you too baby. Now go and sleep. Late na. Drink your milk hmm?"

"Yes mama, bye. Mama Rhina I'm done talking to mama—" i heard him call for Rhina before I ended the call.

I'm here now in London, we're at JCOHotel. Dito ang pansantalang tutuluyan namin sa isang linggo naming pag ttrabaho dito.

"Oh, Engineer why are you still outside?" Tawag saakin ng Architect na kasama ko sa project namin dito. "It's cold out here."

I shrugged. "Nah I'm fine, my suit is so quiet that I can't take it. The noise of the City is quite calming tho."

"Would you mind?" Tanong nya kung pwedeng umupo sa tabi ko.

"Oh sure."

"I'm missing my wife too, and our newborn baby ofcourse." He spoke that also caught my attention.

"Oh really? Wow congrats!"

"Yeah, thanks. How about you engineer? Got any plans with having a family of your own?"

Nawala ang ngiti ko sa tanong nya. I hid my hands on my coat and sighed. "I don't think I'll have my own family. It's quite impossible for me tho."

"What do you mean?"

I chuckled. "Damn architect, i dont even have a boyfriend. I don't do dates. I dont do clubbing, well i did once, but it didn't turn out good." Then I remembered again the cold bastard who deflowered me, sumasama nanaman ang loob ko marimar!

"I don't like anyone in our company. And it's just— you know it's—" I scoffed. "I don't know either."

He went silent for a couple of minutes so I glanced at him. And i saw him— laglag ang panga at di makapaniwalang nakatingin saakin.

"What?" Natatawa kong tanong.

"You got to be kidding me." He chuckled. "You dont have a boyfriend? Or any? What the hell?!You're indeed a gorgeous woman. Competent.. in fact almost all of the guys in our company likes you. wha— I cant believe it." Mangha nyang sabi.

"Well, Not because you're beautiful, everyone truly likes you." I shrugged. "They might just like you because you're beautiful. You don't know if what they feel for you is pure and true. Or they only like you because of your beauty."

"It doesn't mean that when you're beautiful, you'll be an exemption to heartbreaks and not because you're beautiful, you'll always be taken." I laughed and glanced at him again. "Some are just like me, wanting a pure love who would accept me because I'm me, not because I'm beautiful."

I smiled. "I want that love that would last until my beauty dies— until I became old and grey. Not that love that only exists because my beauty still exists." I said then looked away.