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EPISODE 1
"The Meeting"
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EPISODE 1
"The Meeting"
I’m sitting by the bay realizing how I’ve been cruel to myself not seeing the golden sunset in my entire life. I am staring up in the sky recognizing that I am like a cloud, a cloud that carries rains, light, dark, and even gold for a moment.
When I breathe in I feel like I was breathing and feeling everyone around me. And when breathing out, I know I am not the same anymore. My life has change, I am no longer rich and I cannot afford to be classic anymore. And even though everything has taken away from me there’s one thing that has been part of my lifestyle, lonesome.
“Peyton?” someone called my name and I turn back seeing a young man starring and smiling at me. “Who the hell are you? Are you a bank representative?” I asked him with raising eyebrows. He laughs softly “does a cute guy like me look like that?” he answered, I ignore him because I’m annoyed talking to a stranger so I stand up and start walking but he keeps on following me and he’s really getting me pissed off! I turn back trying to be calm. “You need me to be friends with you” he said, I was a little curious about what he said, is he trying to say that I need him so I have to be friends with him? That’s crazy! I look around and notice that it was getting darker, “GET LOST!” I said to him and I continue walking and when I was a bit afar from him, he shouted “I’ll see you again!” I don’t know that guy and I’m not interested in getting to know him either, but I think he needed something from me that will also benefit me, but I don’t care.
It’s getting late and I have to walk to get home because I don’t have that much money and I don’t like the idea of riding in a public transportation, I haven’t tried it before, my home is not far so I can carry myself walking. By almost an hour of walking, I can barely see my house with trucks outside, I walked slowly until I have the right distance to hear my mom and dad’s conversation outside. I think I heard them said that they are leaving me in someone else’s house? It’s getting clearer while I get nearer, and oops I heard it right, it make me frown.
“What?” I said loudly, my mom and dad gets shocked, they didn’t expect me to hear them talking. “Where the hell you’re going and where the hell I am staying?” I asked angrily. Dad and mom look on each other.
“Pey, were going overseas” dad said
“Were? So that means I’m going with you?” I asked
“Unfortunately not”
“I have so much advance birthday gift from you, mom dad, the 1st is you said that our business gets bankrupt, Our house is on forfeit, You sold all our cars, We don’t have any properties left, Were poor, and now your leaving me alone? And not just that, you’re throwing me away?” I talked hasty and I know dad was trying to stop me. But I pay no attention to him till I heard him shout and slap me!
“Enough of it Peyton!” he said it with screaming voice,
I run to my room and locked myself and cry and I cry even harder when I notice that my room is empty and full of suitcase. All was there in my bed is my necklace with a pendant which stand for a secret key in my other room in the basement. My mom knocked on and enters my door. I looked away like I didn’t see her enter.
“Peyton I’m sorry for your dad” I act as if I didn’t hear anything. But I can’t help myself, my tears falls down and I wipe it fast so my mom wouldn’t notice.
“Dad never cared about me, never!” I burst out!
“Is that what you think? That’s not true”
“Ever since I felt that way, you and dad don’t even care!”
“Anak naman eh, please don’t think like that!”
“You can never tell me how to feel, you made me like this!”
“What can I do for you to make you ease?”
“I want to continue studying abroad; I want to go back to the America”
“We cannot longer afford that you know our situation Pey”
“Exactly we cannot afford going abroad anymore, but you and dad your going?
“Anak Hindi naman kami mag re-relax lang sa Abroad, mag tra-trabaho kami ng daddy mo dun, at kung sasama ka samin hindi ka naming mapg aaral dun,”
“Pey, do you know our situation now?”
“I KNOW I CAN FEEL IT!”
“It’s not enough to know the situation; you also have to understand it”
“Let’s end it here mom” I don’t want to continue talking heart to heart to mom I’m not comfortable saying what I feel.
“NO!” mom insisted, she wanted to end things clearly so she continue talking.
“We have to leave you it’s for your good!”
“I was fine with it! I don’t care if you’re going without me? It’s alright but the fact that you’re leaving me with nothing, that not fine with me! You’re going to try your luck abroad while I suffer here?”
“Do you want to stop studying?” mom asked me.
“I already did that when you asked me to go home”
“Peyton Please don’t make it harder for me!” mom begged me and her tears started to fall off.
I have no other option but to give up. Mom won, I am staying in my Dad’s Best friend in high school, and his name is Uncle Roy, Uncle Roy he was just starting to establish his own business name. That’s probably a reason why dad didn’t ask Uncle Roy to help him to get through his business difficulties.
When we arrived at Uncle Roy’s house, dad talk to him and say that this is the only thing he could ask from him and that is to take care of me. I got no idea why dad gives so much trust on Uncle Roy maybe because they were friends ever since high school, Uncle Roy and his wife welcomed me as if I am part of their family,
“It’s so nice to meet you hija, I hope you don’t need to adjust in here, make yourself become a family, alright?” Uncle Roy said in it in front of everyone
“I think we all should care for a tea mare halina kayo dun tayo sa lamesa.” Uncle Roy’s wife Tita Amanda suggested.
And while the maids were serving us, I asked “where is my room?” Tita Amanda and Mom looked at each other like they were talking by means of a look; I think they all expect my question. They know me, my attitude, my personality, I hope Uncle Roy and Tita Amanda will get used to it, but I’m planning to become more sensitive when it comes to them. That’s only because I am living in their home.
“2nd floor hija” Uncle Roy answered my question.
“Is it pink? Is it nice? Is it big?” I asked them with matching eyebrow rising. My dad obviously didn’t expect that question because he looked at me like he wants to slap me in my face again. I laugh secretly when I saw my dad’s reaction. I know he wouldn’t hit me in front of other people but he did try to slap me, luckily mom prevent him in reaching my precious cheeks that’s when I realize that Uncle Roy and Tita Amanda is not just other people; they were like families to each other, I stand up and say
“Ok I’m sorry; I just wanted to have a comfortable place while I’m staying here”
“Can’t you just be more polite?” mom tells me that with frowning face.
“Alright, next time” I said it with smiling face I insulted them with my smile. I just wanted to show to dad that leaving me is not easy, that I will become a burden to Uncle Roy’s family. Maybe in that way he would feel ashamed.
“Elsie, halika samahan mo si Peyton sa kwarto nya” Tita Amanda Command one of the maid, the maid she called is the one who looks at me roughly since I come inside.
As the chimay (that’s how I called maids) guided me. I look around the house and I was so impress by its Mediterranean style of furniture but rather than that, the house is small. In the 2nd floor there was entertainment area in the middle and 2 doors on both sides. The chimay guided me to the left door.
“eto kwarto mo seniorita” she said it with grimace, I am slowly getting irritated with that chimay name Elsie. “Ok get the hell out of my face” I said while flipping my hair.
I was just about to open the door when I heard that the other door opened I look back and saw a guy in my age giving quick look on me. Chimay Elsie is still standing beside me.
“Gandang araw seniorito” chimay greeted the guy
“Could you get my keys? Aalis ako eh” he asked chimay.
I was still looking on the guy but I didn’t get any response or a word from him, I expect him to notice me and greet me or to introduce himself to me , but I get nothing. It’s like I don’t even exist, well I don’t really mind whether he talk or not to me, but in some other way I feel strange, I don’t know why I was waiting for chimay to mention the guys name, maybe because starting this day I will lived under the same roof with that guy whom I don’t know. I would be more comfortable living in here when people here would not mind me. Chimay started going down stairs and I was just about to ask who he was but Slapped! The door close! I can tell he’s an arrogant man! 1st day in this house, definitely disaster but I will bring more to this house.
I enter the door which supposed to be my room, when I walked in I observe that the wallpapers is in white and pink stripes, the bed is in the middle, and on the left wall there’s a window which have pink flower-patterned curtain. The floor is in white soft carpet. The table is in the left side of the bed and under the table there’s an apple laptop in hot pink, a lantern and a few pieces of books. And there is also a couch; it is nicer than what I imagine even though my original room is much more certainly prettier than this. Well I didn’t really expect that they would customize the room for me. I admit that I should have to thank them for this.
Tita Amanda knocked even the door is opened. I looked at her smiling a little bit then she returned me a little smile too. “Can I come inside” she asked “sure” I said
“Can we have a little talk?” she asked that when we were both sitting in the couch. I am conscious about what will be the topic is,
“Sure” I answered even I’m not really sure about that.
“It would be hard for you”
“I didn’t get it, what do you mean?”
“You and my son, you have the same type personality, I hope you get along with each other like you become friends”
“Wait, is the guy on the other room is your son?”
“Yes he is, you and my son you have something in common, that’s why I would understand you much better. I am a much opened minded person hija. I don’t get mad easily.”
“What are you trying to point out Tita?”
“You’ll have to be more careful now that you’re not the same person anymore. I wouldn’t really mind if you stay like that, but it will be hard for you” she was saying something about his son; I didn’t really get what she means by that.
I am so mystified about Tita Amanda’s talking. I don’t really get her point throughout our whole conversation. It’s a waste of time talking to her. She left the room unsolved for me.
I know I have to be kind to Uncle Roy and Tita Amanda, I have to be plastic with them so I would leave a good impression to my name, I don’t want my name ruined, even I know when we become poor there’s no mud left in the ground because it all hits my name. I’m ashamed of being poor. But inside this house, having this room I feel like I still have everything in my hand. I ought to be thankful to Uncle Roy and Tita Amanda, Mom and dad made the right choice to leave me here. I thought that they would just leave me in some slum area with unpleasant people, but I was so wrong, I will still be a princess here when Uncle Roy tell me that feel like a family.
As I take a look around on my new room, I open the closet it has nothing but hanger. I go down and I stop in the middle of the stairs when I saw them having discussion with that guy, the one that Tita Amanda was talking about, her son, I don’t know his name no one has mention it. They all stop and stare at me. I grimace my face and broke the silence, as I walk down slowly and confident,
“What do we have here?” I asked.
“tsk.” I heard someone makes that sound, but I’m not sure who it was but I think it was the guy, and after a minute of silence.
“Peyton, I am expecting a change from you when we comeback. Watch your move, act like everyone is staring at you” dad stand up and bids his goodbye message to me, duh whatever!
“I’ll try dad” mom followed dad on the door but shekiss my cheeks before she goes.
“Peyton, ihatid mo ang parents mo sa airport Alvin ihatid mo sila” what? Did I hear Uncle Roy correctly? Or I just misheard it? But when I saw the guy named Alvin, (mention by Uncle Roy) playing his car keys, I knew that it wasn’t a joke. I tried to make an excuse to get rid of that situation but like what I’ve said I will be more sensitive, once again I lose.
The driver would be Alvin, whom I never talk; the passenger would be me and my parents that would be a bit wary situation, as we will get in the car I don’t know where would I sit, I feel relieve when my dad sits in the front passenger, I thought that I’ll be in that hot sit. While where on our way I remember to ask mom,
“Mom where’s my things?”
“What things?”
“My clothes, my jewelries the things I’ve saved from being rob by the bank?”
“We left your personal belongings in our house”
“It wasn’t our house anymore”
“You can still access your room, and get your things. That house is still ours it’s just that its place as collateral”
“Where’s the key?”
“Guard house” dad answered, I didn’t response; I would just get my things after we sent them on airport but how I was going to do that? I have packed heavy suitcase? I cannot ask Alvin to come with me, which would be uncompromising. However he presents himself to help me packed my things. I didn’t object to his offer I know he’s a big help, it’s like I’ll have a driver today.
As we reach the airport and send mom and dad to the departure area,
“Take care of yourself Peyton; I’ll call you once in a while alright?” I’m going to miss mom even though she always persuade me to the extreme thing that I didn’t want to do. My mom got the charm that I wish I have, but we have different personality, one thing that I inherit from my mom is beauty, but kindness, I never got that from her, more likely I am like my dad, unkind,
“We have to go” dad assumed, I never said goodbye or give him a kiss before he goes, I am so mad at him in view of the fact that he was never concerned about my feelings. They turn back one last time and I wave and give them a sweet smile,
“San ka nakatira?” Alvin asked me. It was the first time he talked to me since I met him today. We were going to my home to pick up my things, I am planning to seat on the back seat of the car again, I open the door and he said “I am not your driver, sit in front and besides you have to guide me, I don’t know your place.” He was being kind, but he wasn’t smiling at all. My first impressions to him is he is a man of a few words, and along the way we weren’t talking, I’m’ sitting in the hot seat and all I do is look on the window, “should I go left or right?” he was asking for the direction “Left” I answered. And by a moment we reach my home, my original home.
I stand outside for a second and realize that is was just yesterday I lived here then now I’m no longer a residence of the village.
I open the door and go straight to my room; I don’t want to take a look around on the house because it would just make me harder to accept the fact that I’m not rich anymore. I enter my room and once again I notice that the necklace was still in the bed. I pick it up 1st and wear it around my neck then after I pick up my suitcase downstairs one by one, until I got the last one. I got 3 heavy suitcase, I was about to call for help to load my things in the car, when I notice that Alvin wasn’t inside his car. I got furious where he was, I looked around and he was inside my house, he’s in the library.
“Trespassing” he got shocked and I laugh when I saw his reaction. “What makes you think you can come in?” I add. He was reading a book, the book that my dad’s love to read. It was limited edition compilation of greatest artist in the world. I think he’s interest is in arts. I know that he wanted to take the book with him, but I look at him strange. He put the book back to the shelves’ then he leaves the room.
“Wait!” I shout, and he looks back when he was in the gate, “My things carry it for me, it’s heavy!” I ask over.
“You bring it alone! You better make it fast before I start my car engine and drive away without you!” One of the hell arrogant men! He’s a shit!
I think his mad because I scare him in the library! Hahaha! it was fun making him funny! Straight guy who get scared? Pretty witty!
I start loading up my 3 suitcase in the compartment, and I glance once more to the house before I ride inside the car. Something pushes me to enter it once again. I hold into my necklace and I recall that I haven’t visited my room in the basement for long. But I heard the car blowing his horn! I got distracted and I saw Alvin go away without me!
“Wait! Putang-ina mo!” hit it! He left without me that cause me to say a hell word out of my mouth, I am so pissed off!
I have no choice but to walk to get home, Alvin’s home, I walk for about 3-4 hours to reach the hell place where Alvin lives. I sit in the sofa rapidly, I was running after my breath I am tired and I am pissed off! I called Elsie for a glass of water,
“Chimay! Chimay! Get me a glass of drink! Make it fast!” Elsie come over and asks me
“Sinong chimay seniorita?” she asks hesitantly! She didn’t get what I mean.
“You’re a fool! YOUR DEFINIETLY A FOOL!” I talked to her in rising intonation.
“ok seniorita kukuha na po ako ng tubig!” when chimay return she already holding a glass of water, she give it to me and I drink it, then there’s Alvin upstairs I saw him looking at me and I get really mad when I saw him, I come near him and I splash him the glass of water!
“Thank you for the ride!” I said to him! As he wipe his wet face.
“Anytime, as you please” he’s smiling and he’s making fun of my angry expression. I want to slap him in his face really hard but I never gone that far hurting other people physically!
“You’ll have your day” I said it more calmly and I walk though my door and ignore him.
“Maybe we treat you as a guest, but don’t you dare forget na nakikitira ka lang dito! And if you want to stay longer, kumilos ka ng tama! Dito ikaw ang trespasser!”
“Nice revenge!” I said. I know that he was mad because of what happen earlier today, but I am madder than he is, what kind of a shit will let me walk for hours? In fact I didn’t really do something wrong to him I just scared him and that’s all! Why it is a big deal to him? Is that the reason why she left me? He’s immature!
“You’ll see in the upcoming days, life is a hell here!” he said.
“I’ll make it hotter for better experience, maybe here you’re the boss, but don’t count me as one of your follower!” I answered bravely while lifting my head sideways. I know he is threatened.
“Thanks to your parents you have the freedom to live here!”
“Can you thank my parents for me? I haven’t thank them eh”
“Remember this thing Peyton, bear in your mind that now you got NOTHING! And all we give you was just a special treatment.”
“Whatever!”
Every word he said sink in my mind but I pretend that I am not affected by his word. I immediately go inside my room, lay down in my bed and I gaze in the region of realizing that all this was not mine, it was just a special treatment, it makes me sad but that’s not enough reason for me to cry, my tears are diamonds’ it is expensive. I know that the coming days would be hard because of that bullshit Alvin. Im getting what Tita Amanda means, that her son is more horrible than I am.
Alvin and I, we haven’t talk to each other pleasantly. I don’t know him but he become an instant enemy for me, I never encounter someone like him, I know his fine but there’s something that we have in common, I think it’s attitude, I can feel that he don’t want me to stay with them, he’s showing me that I have no right to live the way I live my life before, he wanted me to put me behind the bars of his rules. I know I got no power over him because I was staying in his territory but I won’t let him win over me.
Life is suspended for me in a moment when I open my eyes. I wish it was all just a nightmare that I can escape from, but it wasn’t, maybe I’m living a comfortable life but still I know my moves is limited, whenever I think of it I feel exhausted.
It was my 1st morning in Uncle Roy’s house I have no idea how they start the day, usual in my lifestyle the maid will deliver my food to my room and I just eat inside my room. I have no indication of going out, but then someone knocks my door.
“Who is it?” I asked. The door opens and there’s Alvin he’s knocking!
“Is this how you start your day here? Nang-iinis? “
“Relax! I’m still not starting anything” he said,
“So you are about to start?”
“I don’t start my day arguing, go down and have breakfast with us” I can’t believe that he’s inviting to have breakfast with them.
“NO!” I claim
“Dad tells you to do so!” well I thought he was inviting me, but he tells me that his dad ask me to have breakfast with them. There is something about Uncle Roy I can’t stand, he’s more firm than my dad, well I can fight with my dad because he was my dad, but I can’t just start fighting with Uncle Roy.
“What if I don’t want to eat with you?” I asked.
“Fine, but we don’t eat lunch here, so you’ll be eating on dinner?”
I am starving, I haven’t eat anything nice since yesterday, I really want to eat now but still I’m feeling uneasy, but I got no choice if I want to fulfill my screaming stomach I have to go down and eat breakfast with them. Before I faced them I turn around and make a deep sigh, “good luck to me” I whisper
“take a sit” Tita Amanda assumed that I have to take a seat in front of Alvin, even I wanted to seat beside him for the reason that I don’t want to see his face while I’m eating, I would be more lighten to be beside him rather than in front of him seeing his face every minute of the time, I will lost my appetite for sure.
But there’s a girl seating beside him, I don’t know who she was or what is her connection to Alvin, I don’t see this girl yesterday so I knew then that she was a visitor, a visitor in a morning? Duh it is an intruder of the morning! She was smiling at me and I return a frown.
When we start eating, Uncle Roy and Tita Amanda mention that they were going out of town celebrating their anniversary, when I heard that I thought it was corny, they are too old for that! It makes me want to throw up all the food I eat, but I don’t really want them to get my attention so I kept everything in mind.
So let’s comeback to the girl sitting beside Alvin she was comfortably eating, smiling and having conversation with Alvin I feel that the girl was Alvin’s girlfriend, I never thought that someone like Alvin could get a girlfriend? I mean he’s nice looking but if you going to look at his attitude I wonder what technique he had to get himself in a love life. In my case no suitor can stand me! And no one has ever tried! Well I don’t care.
“Who are you?” I asked because I can no longer stand the fact that I was eating with a stranger! Luckily Uncle and Tita don’t mind me except Alvin and the girl,
“Why do you care?” Alvin answered.
I was pretty disappointed when Alvin answered me that way; I was asking the girl in the right way,
“Why are you answering for her? Answering machine ka ba?”
“Lara, Lara Gibson” the girl answered.
“She’s my Best friend” Alvin added.
“Well I’m not asking,” I look on my food and continue eating
“But I can see that you’re curious” Alvin looked at me uncertainty.
“I am not interested in anything” I imply and clear.
“So why question?” we exchange answer as fast as we can then suddenly…
“NONE OF YOUR busine….” I didn’t finish.
“DONE! (Tita Amanada shout then she lower her voice and smile) It’s good to have a little NICE conversation while eating!” (The word nice wasn’t really in the right intonation, she pronounces the word deeply higher in her voice) we all shut our mouth for a moment.
I got no chance to turn one more answer to Alvin because Tita Amanda is already irritated so I just keep quite. I already lost my appetite but I didn’t eat enough to fill my stomach. Well I was just playing with my fork and so Alvin is having fun taking to her best friend named Lara they were talking about something I can’t relate on,
The whole conversation with Alvin is finished when Tita Amanda break off, but then the conversation with Lara was just about to start when she returned the same question I ask her a while ago.
“So you are?” Lara asked me smiling but I can feel that she is a plastic,
“Peyton Anada,” I answered not looking on her face,
“Since when you start moving here”?
“yessss-tarday” I pronounce it long because I’m bored.
“Well actually I move here from the states” I added. It sounds interesting to her like her desire to go to the states as I did.
"She moved back here because she has no money to spend, life in states is no longer for her!” I pause a while and let the words from Alvin’s mouth echoed in my mind again and when it finally does, I got my eyes bigger looking at him along with his reaction looking at me jokingly. I can’t stand to hear those words again and I can no longer stand to get embarrassed in front of Everyone. I’m was so ashamed and I can’t even say a single word, when I feel my tears are filling up my eyes, I hurriedly run away so they won’t notice me being weak,
EPISODE 2
"Her Bracelet"
