Chasing The Bad Girl

K1

I am enjoying myself with the view outside the car. Just to clarify, gumagalaw ang sasakyan and we're on our way to our company.

Wala namang ikinaganda ng view sa labas. Puro jeep, matataas na building , minsan may mararaanan ka pang squaters area, maiitim na usok, mga batang kalye, hepa lanes, iba't ibang sasakyan, malls, at si Aling Puring, nakita ko kasi yung Puregold.

I am just enjoying it. Somehow I am able to reminisce my past. Kung paano ako magkumahog sa pagsakay ng ordinary bus na kapag umandar na mapapakapit ka talaga sa lahat ng posible mong kapitan.

Kung paano ako malakad sa kalye ng ilan para mamalengke, maghanap ng trabaho o' minsan dahil sa kulang lang talaga ang pamasahe.

Everything's different now. I cannot explain how different. It saddens me everytime I realize how different it is now. I don't feel normal. It's like there is something inside me that blocks a lot of good auras away from me.

"May meeting po kayo sa mga Japanese investors sa Friday and Saturday sa Singapore po ang venue, then tomorrow my orientation po para sa mga employees ng Delacarte, tapos--"

I feel like someone is talking so I pull off my earphones and I turn to gaze my secretary whose mouth is half open.

"Were you telling something?" I asked him. Mukhang windang na windang ang itsura nito.

"N-no ma'am I-I'm so-sorry " I stared at him for a moment before turning my gaze away from him.

Barbero itong secretary ko. I heard everything he said dahil wala naman akong pinapakinggang music. Then he'll tell me he did not say anything? And wait! He did speak normally, he did not stutter not when I gazed at him.

The moment I walk inside the building of Delacarte, employees started to greet me. Just like the rest of the days, I did not give them any response. Dire-diretso akong pumasok sa loob ng elevator.

My secretary speaks again.

"He-here's your w-weekly schedule ma'am to-tomorrow you'll be the speaker for the o-orientation for the employees, o-on thursday Atty. Y-Ygo Samera would like to have an appointment with you and last the co-conference withe the Japa-nese investors o-on Friday to Sa-Saturday."

Thank God natapos siya! I really thought aabutin kami ng buwan bago niya masabi lahat ng appointments ko for the week.

Nasa opisina na kami when I chose to broke off my silence. This is a disadvantage of me. May katamaran kasi akong magsalita that's the whole reason why I hate attending meetings and conferrences.

"Regarding an appointment to Atty. Ygo, Please tell him that he's not suppose to talk to me if this is about the Seagull Empire."

"Pe-pero kasi--"

" Look, I can't handle additional responsibility. I can only find a banana and search for the monkey. If he is really persistent for someone to look after the Seagull, nandoon naman na si Jeremy, why ask for my help?"

That monkey! Where the hell is he?! I know what he's been throught but it doesn't mean that he'll hide himself on a jungle. Pati tuloy ako nahihirapan. He's suppose to handle his company! And now his lawyer is pushing a merger with my company, para iisa nalang ang maghandle even wala siya! Well Jeremy Monteverde is there but may sariling company yun and a family!

"O-ok ma'am I'll inform Atty. Samera. And one more th-thing ma'am."

"What?" I lazily asked while scanning documents at the top of my table.

"About the land you bought 4 years ago. The Brgy. Tomasino. The CEO of the Globals is actually--"

"He's still pushing his luck for that land?" I asked. My secretary nodded. I close my eyes to count 1-10 so I could release my frustration.