Betty has not seen Antonio for days in the company and she tried all her possible best to avoid meeting him.She was scared of what he might say or do to her.
Even though she was scared and jittery during working hours she still does her job diligently as always.
" Momma can we go see Aunty cecily now?", Ella asked anxiously waiting for her mom to stand up from where she was knitting a sweater.
Every Sunday, Ella looks forward to visiting Aunty cecily who also happens to be her mom's best friend. To her Aunty cecily bake the best cookies.
" A minute sweetie I am almost done,", Betty replied her while putting a finished touch to the sweater she was knitting.
After putting away her knitting needles, she dust her gown and they both went visiting her.
Afterwards, she and cecily sat down on the bench outside cecily's house while her daughter played on the swing.
"He is back", cecily said facing her there was no need to ask who it was that was back cause they both know who she was referring to.
" I know and I have seen him", she replied inhaling and looking down with a sad face.
"Hey", cecily called out to her using her right hand to hold Bettina chin forcing her to look up." Maybe you should apologize to him so you guys can both let it go", she suggested with a strain smile.
" Not T , he would never forgive me", she replied shaking her head.
What cecily was saying was never going to happen not after everything.
"You haven't even tried to", she told her thinking if she was the one she would probably have been trying to have a conversation with Antonio.
" No, he won't", she said tears spilling down her eyes "You don't know what he went through and the last time I visited him in jail with Andres...", She paused while using her hands to whipped the tears of her face then continued, "he had looked at me with so much hate ", she concluded.
" But what if....", She was saying before Bettina cut her short with a firm shake of her head.
" No means no Cecily lawrence", she said adamantly calling out cecily full name to show how serious she was.
" Okay, okay", cecily agreed raising her both hands up. " I give up", she said." But how are you?", She asked her with concern in her voice.
" I am fine",she replied with a strained smile.
"Are you sure?", She asked her taking hold of her hands trying to comfort her.
" Seriously I am", she replied her.
"It is okay then", she said with a smile.
Cecily decided not to insist on her talking to her about what she really feel since she didn't want to. But they both know she wasn't okay maybe might never be.
Her daughter brought out her soft ball which they both played while cecily watched on clapping once in a while as she couldn't play cause she was pregnant and could pop at anytime. They were so engrossed in it that they didn't notice the two people walking towards them until they were close.
" Hey babe", bucho called bending down to kiss his wife while Antonio moved closer.
Betty had stopped playing with Ella running to get to Bucho while yelling" uncle bucho, uncle bucho" repeatedly.
" Hey kiddo", he said when she got closer while she just stretched out her hands and tried to look intimidating not knowing she looked more childish.
Betty and cecily were trying to hold in their laughter in the background .
This has always been the way the both of them acted whenever they see each other.
" What? What?", Bucho asked Ella like he did not know what she wanted while she kept pursing her lips with her right hand still stretched out.
" Oh yes! Your chocolate", he said suddenly like he just remembered and brought one out which he gave to her before she smiled while the other adults were laughing at his gimmick with her while Antonio watching on.
Betty became tensed immediately she noticed him. She watched him move closer to them then as he was smiling as him and cecily exchange pleasantries. When he turned and faced her, she felt great shame so she quickly move away from where they were and went to where her daughter was.
" Hello boss, Mr Bucho and cecily, we got to go", she said as she went to hold her daughter and immediately start taking her home.
They all understand why she left each with their own different thoughts.
After Antonio chatted a bit with cecily, she left them and went inside. When he was alone with Bucho he asked him the question that has been troubling him ever since he saw her and her little girl.
" How old is her daughter?", He asked him
" She is eight", Bucho had replied him watching him to know what he will think unfortunately he was unreadable.
"Eight,eight", he thought shock.
He did not know how to process it to think Betty had probably being seeing Andres and him the same time was more shocking than the previous incident when he was put in jail and the love of his life (she) had been present for few weeks before he had heard of her marriage.
If someone had told him then that she was two timing he would never had believed it. He had trusted her so much and would have bet his life that she was innocent. Even when Bucho told him that she got married to Andres, he had not believed and had instead screamed at Bucho calling him a "liar" until she came to the jail house with her husband wearing a ring.
The most painful part was she was with the same man who sent him to jail framing him for what he had knew nothing about.
Luckily, justice had prevailed and he was released few days after their visit which prompt him leaving town.