Althea's
I freed him from my embrace and grabbed him by the shoulder. He cried like a child, as if his favorite toy had taken him away from him.
"I'm sorry, Ty, but I don't know..." I gasped as I tried to keep my tears from streaming down my face. "I'm not sure how I'm going to accept it, whether I'm going to believe you... or if I should do anything now that I've learned this."
"Babu," he said, staring at me. "Let's runaway I couldn't stop myself from opening my mouth in surprise at what he had said.
"Are you out of your mind Ty?"
"Please, don't be rude... I'm completely at a loss on what to do. I'm not interested in marrying anyone else, babu! Whatever we do, as long as you're with me, it's fine with me." He begs me to help him.
No, I can't.... I'm the breadwinner of our family therefore I'm not able to do it. Since my father's accident, and although I've been running our little business, I've been working to augment mother's physical and occupational therapy. I can't bear the thought of abandoning them.
I was trembling. "No way, Ty, you're well aware of that." Despite the fact that I want to runaway with you... I can't tell him. "Your family will suffer as a result of this, also my family." Ty has been harmed by many. "Y-you'll learn to love her as well..."
"No babu, I can't because you're the only one I love." Shaking shake he. "What can I do to make it right and even for all of us?" She cried and cried.
What can we do Ty? If destiny itself is in the middle of us? What's the best thing to do? It's like I'm in a book .. it's like the author is playing tricks on us .. as an author I'm happy to write plot twists like this, but it's not fun in real life.
"What if your older brother comes back? This is a dream come true for him .. marry the woman he wants and have children." I asked him.
"When is he coming back Tey? The wedding is tomorrow."
"Maybe Ty, let's just accept that we're only up to here .. maybe this is just the story of the two of us. No matter how hard we try, many will be affected, many will be hurt and we both know that we can't afford to hurt many people." Tears kept coming to my eyes. He hugged me again.
"No Tey, I can't."
"We can't do something about it Tyler. Let's just wait for tomorrow, maybe your older brother will come and stop your marriage. I'll be there" I held his hand and smiled. "When your brother comes I'll hold your hand and we'll run together. But if he doesn't come, let's let each other go."
He could not speak. I looked at my watch, "Tyler, I have to go. I still have work to do. Be careful going home. Drive safe!" I tapped him on the arm and walked back to my station.
I wiped away more tears and arranged myself before returning to my table.
"What? You're crying again! You're not really old Althea Arabelle Samaniego!" He even stabbed me. I was disgusted with him.
I grabbed his finger and bent backwards. "You're so loud!" She pulled her finger away from me. I laughed.
"Wow good mood! Getting back together? Yuck! Relationship wrecker!" She shouted in my face.
"What the heck Zie?" I raised an eyebrow at her.
"Eh Hehehe. Just a joke!" Still signing peace. I just nodded and faced my laptop. "So what is it?" She was still poking my arm.
"It's late in the house." I opened the word file, and started typing. "Don't scratch, I'm busy."
"Wow naughty ah. You're beautiful? I'm better than you. Tse!"
I ignored her. I drowned again in the story I was writing, once it crossed my mind to write the story of Tyler and me .. but I don't want to take the lead, because how do I end our story? Happy ending? Tragic ending? Tss.
I didn't realize the time, Zie just tapped me that we were out. I told her that I would just pass by Ms.'s Office. Aragona, yes aragona is the surname of our head writer/manager so they made dragona.
"Miss." I knocked and entered. "Just want to ask if what time and where is the dinner meeting tomorrow?"
"Ahh yeah. I forgot to say earlier. We'll meet up here at 6 pm. Don't be late and please wear a simple dress." She replied that he wasn't even looking at me.
"Yes ma'am. Thank you." That's all and I closed the door.
Zie and I walked to the bus board. She didn't bother me about what Ty and I talked about because I assured her that I would tell her everything when I got home. But it was annoying that she looked around at me.
"What! Are you looking around, you fool." I'm annoyed that I know her.
"Hehehe. I'm excited to know what you talked about." She still smiled like a fool.
"Tss. Tsimosa." I whispered
"Hey! No ah! Just curious." I just ignored her.
When we got home, he actually made the sofa I was sitting on. The water even reached me. I just laughed at her, as if I didn't know.
"What thea? Care to tell the story!" I was just shaken by how much she wanted to gossip.
"That's how it is." I'm hanging on to him. He sat closer to me. "Hee's sorry for me." I'm still teasing her.
10 seconds of silence before he spoke, waiting for me to add to what I said.
"THAT'S ALL?" I close my eyes to the noise of her mouth. "That was all you talked for a long time?" Her eyes widened at me.
"Hahaha. I don't know about you." I was about to get up, but she pulled me away. "A-what!"
"It's so stupid! What! Spill!"
"So here it is. He apologizes to me, he says he can't be on his own anymore. He says everyone feels very unfair to me-"
"Ha! He's the one who is unfair! Hee's a cheater." I gasped. She really can't be on the scene.
"Can you just shut up and listen to what I have to say?" I stared at him. "Will you keep your mouth shut or I won't tell you?"
"Okay, I'll shut my mouth hehe" She zipped her mouth. Tsk.
"He really feels that everything is unfair to him, that destiny is just playing tricks on us. I agree with him, I feel like we are being played with. It's like we're in a book and the author is sadistic." I stared at her as I read the opening of his mouth. It looks like me. "Well, a bit. The truth is it was an arranged marriage Zie."
"What ??" She asked incredulously. I nodded.
"Yes Zie, the thing is the night after our anniversary date he was surprised when he entered the woman was running naked and crying. He found that his older brother was chasing the woman, and his older brother was very drunk. The woman admitted that she was exploited he's Tyler's older brother, they're best friends. Childhood best friends Zie .. "
"Oh my God," She even covered his mouth. "I can't believe it. Why is the woman there? Maybe it's because they're dating or m.u .. something like that?"
"I can't believe it either, can you imagine that? His brother is so kind!. Well, it's true that looks can be deceiving. It's been a long time since Tyler's older brother liked the girl but unfortunately, the woman liked Tyler's best friend. He was so devastated, to the point that he no longer had sober days, one night he was so drunk that he begged the woman to pick him up. So he picked him up and took him home since he was drunk he took him to the bedroom and there he was forced. "
"Why did he take her to the bedroom? It's okay in the living room. No, I'm not blaming a victim. Don't get me wrong. But the man is drunk, he's not in the right state of mind." She has a point tho.
"Actually I thought about that before, but maybe since they've been dating since childhood that's why she's just like that. How many times have I seen that woman come from Ty's older brother's room? Tho the door is always open, maybe he just has too much confidence. "
"But how did it end up at their wedding, eh, he wasn't the one who raped?" Zie asked in surprise. Maybe that's how I looked before.
"You know before, that's how I asked him. It's like that, when they woke up in the morning they looked for his older brother but he was no longer at home, they just left a letter." I saw Zie cover her mouth, affected looks engot really. "Then the woman was allegedly looking for and imprisoned, they were threatened that if they could not present her older brother, her family would destroy their business, Tyler. You know the status of their business is no longer good, right? They were given one month to look. older brother Tydeus, they even hired a private investigator."
I sighed, I feel the pain again. I thought after I heard Tyler's real reason I would accept it somehow. But he was right as if destiny had beaten us.
"After a month, the woman came to their house with the family. The girl was pregnant and Kuya Tydeus was the father. The girl Zie had a bf, Tyler's bestfriend. She said she couldn't let the man go because nothing happened. Her parents talked to them and they decided to arrange a marriage for them. Maybe you're wondering why him? Zie, older brother Tydeus doesn't show up. That's their fam and as well as the business, the girl's parents also promised that they will help Ty's business rebuild, and if they don't agree to the condition they will destroy Tyler's family business. "
"Why didn't his family say no? God! They're willing to sacrifice their son's happiness for their business? And to cover up his older brother ?!" He was still shouting. "Wait girl, you never met Tyler's bestfriend?"
"Nope, I don't know either. How many times should we be together in case there's always an emergency, or I'm the one with the emergency."
Yes, I've never met Tyler's bestfriend Blaze, we've been together for 6 years but I haven't seen his shadow. There is always an emergency when our meet is set. I also don't see in Tyler's pictures or what. He knows that his bestfriend doesn't like to take pictures.
"Ay? Maybe both of you are really destined! Imagine in those 6 years you never met? That's impossible!" I winced, a writer that it really is. The extent of imagination eh.
"It happened right away, so it's possible." I'm breaking up with him. "The truth Zie, I don't know what to feel .. what to do, they're getting married tomorrow. I know I'll attend."
"The sad thing about your love story, I also feel sad for Tyler. He also doesn't deserve what he's going through. Huhuhu. I always regret what I said to him, Thea." She was crying, she knew. "He's getting married tomorrow"
"You don't have an invitation." I told her. She spanked me. "Yes."
"What did you say to him?" Shee asked afterward.
"Well, I said I have nothing to say-" she interrupted what I was going to say.
"What! You don't care about him?!" She still spoke. Wth?
"What the heck ?!" I shout. "I didn't know what to say to him. I hugged him, he cried on my shoulder. He was like a child who was kidnapped by his playmate's lollipop, where in fact what was kidnapped from him is his happiness."
It hurts so much to see that the person you love looks so hopeless, so miserable. He cried a lot earlier. It was as if all the emotions he suppressed came out earlier when I hugged him. The pain-- too much pain.
"I said let's just accept. Maybe that's really what's destined for us, it's so painful to see Zie crying. It's like my heart is being crushed, I don't know how to comfort her." I cried. Zie held my hand. "He invited me to runway Zie! Even if I want to come, I can't, I'm the only one my family expects. You know that, don't you?"
"Thea" She hugged me, so I cried even more. "I know, and Tyler knows that too." Shee caressed my back.
"He doesn't know how much I want to run away with him, but it's not possible ... the difficulty of our situation. I can't show him how I feel, because he's already weak, so will I still be with him?" I was crying tears.
What can I do .. can I lose him in my life after knowing that he still loves me? Why is this?
After Zie and I talked, I went straight to my room. I lay down and pondered. Preparing yourself for what will happen tomorrow. I opened my playlist on the laptop, first played in the name of love ..
🎵Hanggang kailan ako maghihintay na para bang wala nang papalit sa 'yo?
Nasa'n ka man, sigaw ng puso ko'y ikaw hanggang ngayon, woah-oh🎵
I was staring blankly on the ceiling, not knowing what I should feel.
🎵Kung sana lamang ay nakita mo ang lungkot sa 'yong ngiti
Isang umagang 'di ka nagbalik
Gumising ka at nang makita mo ang tamis ng sandali
Ng kahapong 'di magbabalikHanggang sa dulo ng ating walang hanggan
Hanggang ang puso'y wala nang nararamdaman
Kahit matapos ang magpakailan pa man
Ako'y maghihintay sa ngalan ng pag-ibig🎵
Will I be able to see her marry someone else? Will I still wait for my heart to feel nothing to forget you forever or should I fight him? Am I against her parents?
🎵Hanggang kailan pa ba magtitiis? Nalunod na sa kaiisip
Huling kapiling ka'y sa aking panaginip
Ikaw mula noon, ikaw hanggang ngayonHanggang sa dulo ng ating walang hanggan
Hanggang ang puso'y wala nang maramdaman🎵
What am I going to do? Will I follow what I told him before? Maybe I'll wait for the older brother to come. That's probably the sign. When your older brother Ty comes, we are really for each other.