Matters of the Heart

Sixteen

THEY both ate lunch with his cousins and Shirley. She let them ask him questions and she didn't even barge in to answer. She still not fine with what she saw a while ago.

"Please, pass the honey, honey bunch," Shirley asked Donn with so much flirtatious in her voice.

This woman is so bitchy and a big flirt. Since she came in a while ago, all she did was to act cute and flirt with Donn.

Can I just drown you with this pulut-pukyutan? Or better yet, I'll put her inside these pukyutan!

Maybe she'll do that later. First, she has to eat.

She saw the pork-chop that was in front of Shirley. No matter what, she didn't mind the woman, she just wanted to eat. The food will just put into waste if she won't eat it. She intentionally made her voice louder.

"Please pass the pork-chop, porky pig." She tried to put some tenderness in her voice that to mock her off. She's even looking straight to Shirley.

Asti and Dicken laugh like crazy while Shirley look at her with so much hatred. Florence was applauding herself deep inside.

"So, how come you're here?" She asked haughtily. "I thought you're not Anette."

She straightened her body and snapped an eyebrow.

This crazy woman. If I know, her big boobs were just faked and even her nose which was like a beak of a duck. She's trying hard to have a pointed nose.

She raised her eyebrow on her. "I may not be Anette but Donn is in love with me and the one he's going to marry. How about you? What are you doing here? As far as I know, you're not part of the Saavedra family. And I don't think I also saw you on the list of names in our wedding invitation."

All of them didn't dare to go against her. She knew that Shirley was affected on what she said because she stood up.

"I'm full, excuse me." She said and leaves the dining.

Florence should be happy for her success but when Donn followed her after giving her a meaningful look, she can't help but be disappointed by it. She also felt a sharp jab of jealousy in her heart.

"You are something, Florence." Sapphire commented after a while. "From now on, I am welcoming you already in our family."

"Thanks." She just answered weakly. Her mind was with the two who left the dining. Here she was thinking that the memories of Anette were the only hindrance for her. She thought wrong again.

"Don't mind much about the closeness of Donn and Shirley, Florence." Asti said. "They were childhood friends that's why they were that close with each other."

"What I know was Shirley already like Donn even Anette was not yet in the picture and--- ouch!" Dicken shouted. Maybe Sapphire kicked him under the table.

"Actually, what Dicken was saying was that, you're the first woman Donn brought here." Sapphire, now, continued. "That only means you're the one Donn will gonna marry. That's one of the traditions in our family. Anette didn't even come in here first. Shirley just came in with us a while ago."

Florence let go of a sigh. Everything she heard was pleasant in her ears. But it still didn't change the fact that Donn is with Shirley right now.

"Go on, Florence." Asti said again. "Go and follow Donn."

"I agree." Dicken seconded.

She immediately stood up like there's something poke her butt. They're right. She can't just let go of everything after she let him go from an absurd agreement and just let him be with that woman. But before she leaves the dining, she picked three pieces of lumpia first.