Only Series 1 : One Night Only

Chapter 18 - Him

Chapter 18

Hindi malaman ni Ash kung saan pupunta matapos ihatid ang kapatid sa bahay nila. Fritz doesn't have his car kaya nang pumunta sila kanina sa Opisina ni Ria ay kotse niya ang dala.

He called Miguel and he's glad he answered after a few rings. He's driving with no direction right now.

"Hey mister I-have-all-the-time-in-the-world!" Birong sagot ng kaibigan nito.

Lately, he's been called that way. Madalang na lang kasi itong bumisita sa joint business nila dahil nga sa girl in the red dress.

"Dude, where are you? I have something to tell you, right now, and I might go crazy!"

Malutong na tumawa si Miguel sa kabilang linya para bang Hindi makapaniwala sa narinig. Nag echo iyon sa buong sasakyan dahil naka loud speaker ito.

"Fvck you! Walang nakakatawa dude!" mura nito sa kaibigan.

"I know. Kasi naman, you're damn serious, It's new." bahagyang Sumeryoso ang boses nito na pinipigilan ang matawa. "Okay, meet me at my unit. I'll just leave to Raine some documents that need to sort. Bring foods and drinks, di pa ako nakakapag grocery."

Raine is our secretary kaya Alam niyang mag-a out na ang kaibigan to meet him.

After the call, he dropped by at a convenience store to buy foods and drinks. Kumuha lang siya ng kumuha and then paid them at the counter. Agad na siyang bumyahe papuntang condo unit ng kaibigan.

It felt like a hour of waiting kahit twenty minutes lang siyang bumyahe at almost ten minutes naghintay. Miguel gave him the password in advance kaya nakapasok siya kahit wala ito.

"I'll be changing my password when you left. You might come uninvited." Salubong ni Miguel sa kaniya at nakipagkamay.

"Don't worry. I don't want to see you crying like girl when Ysha will knew what you've done." Banta naman niya sa kaibigan.

Well, Ysha is his current girlfriend.

"Well, I won't tell." napapailing na sagot nito na biglang Nahilaw ang ngiti kasi Alam niyang Tama siya sa sinabi.

"So what's the very serious problem you've got that you might get crazy, huh?" Agad na naitanong ng kaibigan.

Naupo na ito sa kaniyang tabi. Naroon sila sa living room. The foods are prepared, as well as the beers.

"Ria had a child. And God knows that little girl could be mine!" Agad niyang naibulalas.

"Wait, what?" shock was an understatement. That's What he sees on Miguel's face. "Dude. May asawa yung tao, malamang sa malamang, may anak sila. And besides, what's this kind of assumptions? Akala ko ba gusto mo lang siyang makilala? Ngayon na nakilala mo na siya, you're digging more of her! That's getting dangerous dude!"

"No, no, no, no! I saw the kid, kanina. Doon sa Opisina nila. And she, that little girl, looks like Aimee. You knew Aimee is a girl version of me, right? Dude, you knew, you have seen her husband in pictures. Pinakita ko yun sa'yo, But he, Hindi niya kamukha yung bata. I swear!" mahabang paliwanag niya.

Naiwan namang tahimik si Miguel. He looks like analyzing the things he said. He took a bottle of beer on the table and drink from it.

"Ipagpalagay nga natin na hindi nila kamukha ang bata, and posibleng sa iyo, then what?"

"I, I, I don't know? All I know is that I need to know the truth. She could be my child, Miguel." Hindi makapaniwalang sambit nito sa katagang CHILD. "Alam ba ng asawa niya na posibleng Hindi niya anak ang bata, dahil anak ko?"

"Granting she is your child. ano na? Kukumprontahin mo si Ria? Then what? After na malaman mo ang totoo, again, what? Don't tell me may balak kang kunin yung bata kung sakali? That could mean ruining their family Ashton."

"Hindi ko Alam dude! I don't know what to do! Gusto kong kausapin si Ria about all of this, but how? Mukhang hindi niya ako naalala."

That thought always makes him sad, Ewan niya kung bakit. He's too affected that Ria doesn't recognized him.