"Amalia, this foundation has board of directors. The doctors that are working here, most of them are volunteers. Donations of private people and a subsidy from the government maintained the financing of all activities in the foundation. I can request but I cannot command nobody here. The foundation works not on that way, but I will see what I can do for you." Evelyn explained to Amalia how the foundation worked.
"The name of the foundation is Nelson-Sonny Charity Foundation. Named after your late husband Nelson and son, Sonny. I know, you can help me Evelyn if you like. Please, for the sake, that we were best friends before, help me, please."
"Okay, this foundation is to help people, friend or not. Come back tomorrow for an intake. I will insert your name to the intake appointments." Evelyn said.
"I am planning to leave Manila, back to our place, it is one possibility of help I also want." Amalia said to Evelyn that she wants to comeback to their place.
Evelyn looked at Amalia. She wants to see sincerity in Amalia's face. Evelyn thought what Amalia said of her coming back to their place. Amalia could rehabilitate herself in the same rehabilitation center where she and Adora had been rehabilitated. She can help her ex-best friend.
"Amalia, can I ask you why you and Roy are here in Manila?"
"It is Roy's idea. He said maybe he can find a job here. You know already that he lost his job in our place. He said maybe he can return to his former work in Manila. He was an actor before, you know."
🤦♀️That morning I also wake up early. I have an envelope I want to give to her personally.🤦♀️
"For me?" Amalia was surprised when she opened the envelope that Evelyn gave to her. Inside the envelope was money.
"Amalia, I am really helping you. That money you need is to buy your personal needs. If you rehabilitate yourself with success, I will help you to start something. So, please help yourself, only you can help yourself!"
"I did not expect this. Evelyn, whatever I had done to you, please, forgive me!" Amalia has tears.
"We all make mistakes." Evelyn answered Amalia.
"Evelyn, I do not know how I could tell you, but I must tell you."
"Tell me about what?"
"About Roy!"
"Amalia, I know who Roy is, I lived with him for a long time, remember?"
"No, what I want to tell you is that Roy did not drove me away from him. I ran away from him!"
"It doesn't matter Amalia. Forget Roy. You did right running away from him."
"I ran away because he wanted to kill me!"
"What?"
"He always beat me, but the last time, he wants to push me from a high building, but I managed to escape."
"My god!"
"Also," Amalia paused for a while. She is thinking if she must tell Evelyn what she is going to tell her.
"Also, what?" Evelyn asked.
"Beware of Roy. Be careful!"
"He cannot touch me, don't worry about me!"
"I tell you; you cannot be sure about him. You must know this, Evelyn. Roy has something to do with the death of Nelson!"
Evelyn could not believe what she heard from Amalia. Roy has something to do with the death of Nelson!
"What do you mean by that? What has Roy to do with Nelson's death?" Evelyn asked Amalia but Amalia did not answered her.
As Evelyn with horror in her face waited for the answer of Amalia, Amalia trembled when she answered Evelyn.
"Roy with his three friends, with the help of Nelson's security guard came to rob Nelson and everything went wrong." Amalia was sobbing.
"My God!"
"I knew it from the beginning. Forgive me Evelyn, Roy warned me that if I open my mouth, he will kill me. One time we quarrel, he wants to push me from the high building when I said to him, that I will tell you everything. I am lucky because on the roof there was these couple, so he had not done what he was planning. Then I ran fast away."
🤦♀️Doctor Edgar Montero, I was shocked, really shocked from what Amalia told me. Roy had something to do with the death of Nelson. Was Amalia telling the truth? Must I believe all what Amalia said? I said to myself, Roy is a drug dealer, Roy battered woman, Roy is a drug addict but not a murderer! But if it is true, that Roy had something to do with the death of Nelson, must I report it to the police? How can I prove if I accuse him. Are the words of Amalia enough? I don't know, I really do not know what to do. Amalia was brought to the airport and the social worker that escorted her made it sure that she boarded the plane.
But Doctor Edgar Montero, I don't know how Amalia do it, she had not boarded the plane, because the people that supposed to met her in the airport of Bacolod City telephoned me immediately, Amalia was not in the plane. She had checked-in but did not board the plane.
The story of Amalia about the involvement of Roy to what happened with Nelson bothered me that much. I did not mind that Amalia for the second time wasted the help given to her and for me, two times was enough. If she ever come again for help it will not be given by me, by the foundation. She can look wherever she could find it not anymore by me.
Amalia even she would, could never ask again a help from me.🤦♀️
"Good morning, Ma'am. I know you do not read newspaper, but I think you must read this newspaper for today." The security guard who knocked at the door of her office handed Evelyn the newspaper when Evelyn let him in.
"Good morning, why what is in the news today that I must read?" Evelyn asked the security guard.
"It is about the woman who you had helped twice." The security guard replied.
"Amalia?"
"Yes! I guess! Her name was not mentioned because the police do not know who she is! But the photo I am sure she was it. Dennis, the social worker escorted her to the airport four days ago."
"Thank you, I will read it."
When the security guard went away, Evelyn after the door of her office was closed, looked at the newspaper. The security guard was right. The photo of Amalia was on the front page as the police is asking who know or recognize the woman in the photo. The woman was dead after she jumped from the rooftop of a hotel. A suicide!
Evelyn could not explain what she felt. She thought about the times when she and Amalia were still friends, their carefree life, the times when they do not care only themselves. The times when she was insubordinate to her parents, the times when she abused Nelson and their marriage, the times she also neglected her son, her joyous at the same time destructive relationship with Roy. Amalia was her buddy, her partner and thought a friend forever but Amalia succumbed to Roy. Amalia's life destruction started since and now ended on her death falling from a roof top.
🤦♀️Doctor Edgar Montero, what happened to Amalia, how her life ended made me sad. She was fully destroyed. I thought if not for her I was maybe dead a long time ago. Before the complete destruction could happen to me, Amalia came in and take my place. I am lucky enough I have my parents who loved me despite of all I had done. I am lucky I did had a husband in the name of Nelson Romano because even I destroyed him, he still had loved me and left all these material things making me not happy but making my life easier. Amalia, she does not have anybody. Her family despised her and totally banned her, Amalia was alone, she has to fight it by herself and she was defeated. I asked, why life is so complicated? Why life is so hard and sometimes cruel? Frankly, I suspected that Amalia did not jumped to her death by herself, that she did not committed suicide as suggested. I believed Roy had something to do with her death because Amalia had said that Roy tried to push her from the rooftop of a high building, but I have no proof. Now I suspected Roy, not only for the death of Nelson but also for what happened to Amalia.
I instructed Dennis, the social worker of the foundation to attain the matters concerning Amalia. For the sake of our friendship before, I will give her a good and proper burial. I want to bring her remains to Bacolod City where most of her family resides with a thought that her parents even for the last moment maybe will care for her. And I am also thinking to hire a private detective to investigate the date of Nelson and Amalia. It is time of reckoning with Roy Sanchez.🤦♀️ ****to be continued****Remedios Dorio