It's already past midnight, when a strange noise wakes-up a chocolate-brown haired little girl.
She irritably lifts herself up from bed and wipes her crystal-brown eyes and yawns as she wonders on what is that strange noise and where it is coming from.
"Yes, yes, I want to be updated on everything about her," the little girl's eyes got widen when the strange noise became clearer and it registers as her daddy's voice.
"Daddy?" She sweetly mutters with anticipation. Knowing that it's her most favorite guy in the world.
She cheerfully got up from bed and walks only with her toes and heel up, sneaking in excitement hoping to give her father a sweet surprise.
She slowly twists the doorknob but froze as she heard her father speaks again.
"How's Panini? Is she okay? How 'bout our baby?" She frowns from those words.
She knew that she's only her daddy's baby. She started to wonder who's that Panini he was talking about.
She slightly opened the door, out of curiosity. She took a sneak peak, and quietly went outside when she heard her daddy's foot steps away from the scene.
She haven't forgotten what she heard that night. She kept on wondering who the heck is his baby. She noticed all the changes in his daddy after they migrated in France. She seldom sees her favorite guy and can't even put a smile whenever she calls him.
But she keeps on being positive. She waited for her daddy and prepared him a cup of hot dark chocolate with lots of marsh mallows as what her daddy ever wanted.
She carefully headed to his office but the excitement faded when she saw her dad got asleep on his office table. But what catches her attention is her daddy's laptop left opened.
She frowns and got dumbfounded on what she saw.
It's a candid photo of a blonde little girl, lying on a hospital bed carrying a very small baby.
"Panini," she whispers as she read the writings on the pictures.
She got puzzled. She knows that girl in the photo is too young to be a mommy. Maybe that's just her sibling
"April! What the hell are you doing in my office!" She almost jumped, surprised in seeing her father glaring at her. She never saw her daddy looks so mad at her like that.
She started shaking in fear seeing her favorite guy almost kill her with his glare.
Her dad kept on shouting at her. But she can't make any movements. Her feet became numb and motionless it's like her feet's stuck on the floor and she can't hear nothing but her heart beat pumping fast.
Her daddy didn't utter any word anymore, he violently drags her out of the room. And warned her that if she enters his office again, he'll do much worse.
She can't move on from what happened that night. Her dad's face, her dad's voice and that candid photo. Everything went confusing for her. She became puzzled on everything. She sleeps every night and wakes up from of her dream that her daddy's screaming and shouting at her again--exactly like the last night.
"Tell me, James, do you have another woman?"
"Why the fuck do you have to ask me that stupid question?"
"Why the fuck can't you just answer my stupid question!?"
Another noise woke up the little girl with crystal-brown eyes. But this time she knows it's not a strange noise anymore--but it's her parents' shouting at each other.
She hurriedly runs at the door and slightly opened it to watch what is going on outside.
"The fuck, stop this shit, Miranda! I don't have a fucking time for this kind of waste!" Her dad shouted and was about to leave when her mommy threw some photos on his face.
"Is that what you call shit, James? Who the hell is that blonde girl, James?" Her dad became speechless on what he saw.
From a far, the little girl saw who's on the pictures and she is not mistaken, it's that blonde girl named Panini again.
She gasps. She knows, she also wants to know, who that girl is.
"Why can't you speak, now? Tell me! Is that your daughter and so does that baby in that picture? Who's that Panini? TELL ME, JAMES!" Her mommy shouted.
"Shut the fuck up, Miranda! April will hear you and the fuck, Panini is not my daughter!"
"So, that baby is your daughter, huh?" Her mommy concluded and her dad froze--don't know what he'll say next.
"C'mon speak up, James! Am I right, huh? Who the hell is Panini! The fuck, speak up!"
"Fine, you want me to tell you the truth?" Her daddy said as he cuts her mommy from nagging.
"That little girl is Panini! And that baby is her daughter!" Her daddy shouted.
Her mommy got dumbfounded on what she heard.
"What kind of reasoning is that, James? Who the fuck do you think will believe that shit? That girl's too young to be a mother! And the fuck, she looks like she's only 9, who the hell will fuck a nine-year--" her mommy stopped and gasped as she get everything and absorbed every pieces of the puzzle.
"You... You devil! You got her pregnant? You fuck a girl younger than your own daughter?" Her mommy blurted in disbelief and started to rampage and hitting her dad in so much hatred and disappointments.
April can't take what's going on and what she just found-out. She cried watching her mommy cries while hitting her daddy. It's like she's absorbing all the pain from her mommy's eyes.
But everything got more intense when her mommy pull out the gun from her purse and even though she's shaking, she managed to point it at her daddy
"Miranda, drop the gun!" Her daddy shouted in fear.
"No, you immoral! You disgusting crazy piece of shit! You stay away from me, asshole!" Her mommy blurted in tears--still pointing the gun at her daddy.
"How could you, cheat on me!? How could you take that? You have a daughter and she's been idolizing a pedophile? She has a nymphomaniac father--" her mommy's statement ended up with a fire gun.
April got shocked, so does her daddy--that's holding the gun.
He couldn't take all the insult from his wife that lead him to snatch the gun from her and pull the trigger.
"Mommy!" April couldn't take what she just witnessed.
She run as fast as she could to her bleeding mommy.
"Mommy! Mommy!" She kept on shouting at her unconscious mommy, trying to wake her up. She tilts her head to look at her daddy that until now still haven't sink in what he just did and shakingly holding the gun.
"Daddy! Help mommy!" She pleaded but her daddy can't hear anything but his heart beat and his conscience.
"Mommy! Mommy!" She kept on shouting at her mommy but no answer or even a blink of an eye from her. Just her blood flowing out her head and mouth is all what April gets from her.
"Daddy! Why won't you call for help?" Nanny! Heeelllp!" She shouted put of desperation.
"I killed her," her dad mutters while looking at the gun.
"I killed your mom!" He shouted and another fire gun ruled the whole room.
"Daddy!" April shouted. And she cries more harder seeing her daddy lies on the floor dropped dead. She cries seeing her parents dead and blood are everywhere.
"Mommy! Daddy!"
***
"Ha.. Ha.. Ha.." I woke up catching for breath and sweating as fuck. What the hell, that dream again?
"Ma'am, we have already arrived in our destination, you're the last one on the board," I lift up my back from my seat and take a look at the window. And now I remember where I am...
"We're here?"
"Yes, ma'am, welcome in the Philippines, mabuhay!" I smirked at the back of my head. Finally, I'm back.