Chapter 43

Nikita's POV,
"What?" Dad said shocked and Hanz's eyes still widened looking at me.
"I got drunk, then-t-then, m-something happened to us." I said to Dad in tears.
"Nikita ..." I immediately grabbed Hanz's hand to stop him from speaking.
"And why are you drunk?" Dad was still shouting angrily.
"What's happening here?" Mama suddenly jumped up but neither of us looked at her. Dad still looked down on me.
"Nicholas, calm down. What's wrong with you?" Mama approached papa and rubbed her back.
"You know?" Dad's baling at mom.
"A-which one?" Mom asked Dad again and again.
"That your child is pregnant!" Dad shouted again. Dad was just quiet and seemed to explode again.
"Pa ..."
"Now what? Why did you get drunk? When did you learn to get drunk? Did you also learn to go to the bar? How? HOW?" Dad shouted again.
"What are you saying Nicholas? A-what bar?" Mama asked confused.
"It was an accident. I-I got drunk and woke up in a hotel ..."
"P*tangina! I have a lot of trust in you son after all g-that's all?" I stopped talking when suddenly there were tears in my dad's eyes.
"Pa ..." I tried to approach papa to hug him and I didn't fail, papa just let me hug him.
"Pa, I'm sorry." I told him in tears.
"It's good that you finished your studies first." Dad said and wiped away his tears.
I feel guilty. All my life, my Father never cried like this before. I never saw him cry but because of my mistake. I'm sorry Pa. I hope you will forgive me.
"My fatherless grandson is a boy." Dad said so I cried again.
It would be nice if Kent could accept our son so he could get to know a father.
I'm sorry Pa but I love that man. I don't want her to be sad for the rest of her life because she's tied to someone she doesn't love. I don"t want my son to experience a forced family. It's for the two of them and it's for myself. I'm really really sorry.
"So what's your plan?" Dad said calmly.
"Maybe I'll work first so I can save for my childbirth." Dad said and I almost stopped crying.
"How many months has that been?" Said papa.
"2 months and a half po." I said and looked at my stomach.
"Don't stay up late. I'll give you the things you need from your mother tomorrow." Dad said and stood up.
I know, papa is still angry so he chose not to distress me so he keeps me from showing anger because he knows it will hurt me.
I'm sorry because almost everyone around me is the one who adjusts. They are concerned about my welfare and my situation.
Why did I make my father hurt? If only I had been hurt.
"All right, I'll leave you." Papa said and turned away. Mom followed him.
"Why did you say that?" I was distracted by what Hanz said. He was still there.
"Hanz I hope you understand me." Stooping I said.
"No Nikita. I can't understand you ehhh. Why didn't you tell the truth that that g*gong Kent is me ..." I covered Hanz's mouth because they might still hear him papa.
"Hanz, please." That's all I can tell him and I know he can really understand me.
"I don't know about you Nikita. That's why you're hurting ehh, you also choose to be hurt ehh." I cried again at what he said.
Yeahhh! My choice is the reason why I'm hurting now ehh. I chose not to tell Kent about it so I"m hurting now. I also chose not to tell papa the truth so I was hurt. It's also for him so it's worth the pain. I can endure all pain for him.
Haissst Nikita!
"You're right. I chose to get hurt but it's better for me to be hurt than him. This is right I think ehh." I cry promise.
"You're being selfless. You know what, for me, there's no right or wrong choice. It is us who conceive it because we think for the good. We wanted the best for others." He said.
"Psshh! Stay. Don't cry anymore ehh because I'm hurting you." Hanz said so I stopped crying as well.
"Why me?"
Thank you and I asked him too.
"What's the matter with you?"
"I mean, why of all people am I the one you love?" I still ask.
"I don't know. Since the day you saved me. Pffft! I still remember what you said before, you even said 'You want me to voodoo them?' Pffft! You're a witch. " He laughs and says that's why I got a poker face with him.
"You think I really bewitched them?" I told him while sober.
"Tsk! I'm not bopols you know." He said and leaned back on the sofa.
"My enemies called me a Witch because I was afraid I would vomit them if they didn't stop me. I even showed them a vodoo doll. Pffft! Hahahahah, that's my teddy bear that I removed two eyes and one hand. Then I sewed a sewing. button for fantastic. Hahahhahah! " I told him a story while laughing.
"Pshhh! You have a bad temper." Hanz said and laughed as well.
"He's Panot the Wizard. I'll buy some dried mayonnaise later ahh. Pleaseeeee!" I said and still puppy eyes.
I hope it agrees! Huhuhuhu! It tastes as good as eating dry dipped in mayonnaise. Waaaaaaaah! I'm craving for it.
"Yuckkkk! Why would all pregnants have weird taste of food?" Hanz shuddered so I stared at him.
"Don't. Don't buy it for me. I'll just buy it. We're no longer best friends, we're BFOs. BEST FRIENDSHIP'S OVER!" I told him and he was ready to stand up.
"Haisty! Yes, I'll buy you, Pregnant Witch. Just don't voodoo me." He said so I just laughed until we were both laughing.
Hahahahahah!
Lauren's POV,
I was drinking coffee at my balcony when someone suddenly called me.
Calling Ichiel ~
I accept this because my best friend will be angry if I don't answer it right away.
"Yes Chi?" My answer.
"Heyyy Gen, I'm home." He said so my eyes lit up.
"Oh?" I said.
"So what? Mall? Yieeeeeee, I miss you Gen. Come on, I'll fetch you there." He said so I smiled.
"Yeahhhh! I'll wait for you here. You knew my house right?" I said and got up to get ready.
"OK, I'll hang up." He says.
"Yeah!" I said before she ended the call.
I've been looking for something to wear and there, I didn't take long to choose. In fact, I'm not a fashionista type of person. I just chose blue jeans tas a simple fitted polo shirt with no sleeves.
[A/N: You know that? The one with the white collar bag has buttons. Sorry, DyosAuthor is not a fashionista ehh. Just what I can pull out of my closet, that's it.]
I got dressed and applied Facial Cream and then applied a little foundation and blush-on. I also put on lipstick. Light color only because I don't want to make a fierce look and I don't want too much lipstick. I'm not allergic to make up OK? I just don't want heavy make-ups.
I just took my black wedge sandals and someone rang the doorbell so I went down.
I opened the gate and as always, Ichiel has an artistic aura.
Hahahahah! I don't know why I became his friend knowing that we are opposite. That's cursed and very artistic. Kindness just comes out to me but when in front of other people the eyebrows are raised. She's a fashionista and I'm not. She's not a classy type of person. Once she doesn't like you, she'll never be nice to you.
What I really love about my best friend is being my protector. She doesn't want me to get hurt. 'When he finds out that something bad has happened to me, he will just punish the one who hurt me. She's a warfreak, in short.
"Waaaaaaah! Gennn! I really miss you." He said simultaneously running and hugging me.
"Pshh! Chi, I can't breath." I said because of the tightness of his hug.
"Tsk! So what's up? You've got a lot of things to tell me. Come on, hurry up." He said he pulled me to his car.
"Heyyy Chi. You don't need to drag me. I have my own feet you know." I said but he just didn't have a pack and I got in his car.
"So? Where are we now?" He asked after he boarded.
"Did you say at the Mall?" I said and arranged the bag I was carrying.
"Ahhh, OK." He said and drove off. "Wait, I don't know where's the nearest mall here." He asked.
Of course, he just arrived so he still doesn't know how to get around here in Manila since he has also lived in the States for a long time.
"Tsss! You can have your waze Chi." I said pointing at his phone at the same time because I knew there was a waze.
"Ahhh, yeah, sorry I forgot." He said and just smiled and started the engine.
So since the mall is just near us, we have arrived.
"Let's go. Let's eat first." Chi said I was also dragged to the nearest restaurant we could go to here.
Of course he had just arrived from Canada so he was still hungry.
The server immediately gave us the menu so we chose as well. I only chose a few since I ate at home.
"So? I heard you're engage to Kent." Smiling she said.
"Yeahhh!" I said.
"And how about that Nikita girl? Did they already broke up?" He said and sat the most social way in his chair. I also sat properly.
"I feel sorry for her. I know I hurt her. If I hadn't come back maybe Kent and I might still be together." Sadly I told my best friend.
Believe it or not, I really feel sorry for her. But I only did that because I love Kent. I can't imagine my life living without him.
"Tsss! You felt guilt?" Raised eyebrows he said.
"Yeahhh, but I love Kent. You know how I love Kent." I said.
"Psssh! You know what? I don't like that Kent in the first place. First love? Gross!" He said and yeahhh, that's bitter because he doesn't mislead. He didn't want to go astray because they just seemed to have a headache.
"But since you love him, oh woman! I just let you go." He said with an artistic tune of speaking.
"But to tell you Gennn! Why are you feeling guilty? Like duhhh! So you were ahead of Kent. You just took what was yours." He says.
See? Maldita is her name Guys! I don't know why he's cursing, he still doesn't know Nikita.
If Nikita and I weren't awkward, she might have become my friend. But I'm embarrassed ehh.
But my parents, I don"t want to disappoint them. They want Kent for me and Kent's parents want us too.
I love Kent but why am I feeling this? Shouldn't I be happy because I got Kent back for me? Because I don"t want to hurt people. But I don't want to disobey my parents, they know what's best for me.
"I'll talk to her." I said to Chi and he smiled.
"And why would you talk to her? Like Oh to the M to the Gee! What would you say? I'm sorry? You already hurt her, didn't you? Do you think she can forgive you just like that?" He said while still waving his hand.
It was right and our food arrived so we ate it.
I thought about what Ichiel said to me.
Of course! What can I tell him? It's amazing that after we hurt him, I'll have the courage to show up to him. I don't know if she can forgive us but I just want to talk to her.
But what can I say?
"Gen! I know you just want to apologize to her but not right now. She's in the state of moving on and whoever wants to move on doesn't want to see the person who hurt them. That's why they move on. forget the people who caused the pain they felt. " Chi said seriously so I just went.
"You're right." I just said eat lasagna.
"When will you go back to the States?" I change the topic.
"Ahhh, yeah, one month from now because I will meet the owner of the company who was Daddy's business partner before. They say, they will pass on their company to their son and I have to meet that son of them." He says.
"Oh? Edi, are you the same age? Yieeeee! That's funny." I said. I'm just hoping for him.
"Pshh! And what's up? As if I like that. Like duhhh! I haven't seen anything suitable for me yet!" He says.
Oh right? That's a high standard for men ehh so it doesn't mislead lightly. He might just hurt her. She said it was a pain in her ego that the man with low standard had hurt her whom Aphrodite envied.
Windy !!!!!
"Tssss! Maybe when you see that you'll be able to lab-and-press-sit there?" I even said that his face could no longer be painted.
"Eh if I throw you what I'm eating? You want?" He said that what he ate would be thrown away from me so I immediately signed peace because he might be right.
He hasn't been sanctified yet!
Nikita's POV,
*Tooot!*
*One message receive from Terrence*
I opened Terrence's text message to me.
*Hey Nik, come with me to the mall.*
That's just his text message to me. My foreheads frowned.
I haven't told Terrence about my pregnancy yet and I have no reason to tell him. I'm also going away because Hanz said don't let us go to the States first so we can forget forever. And about me and Hanz? I agreed to seduce him but as I said, let him let me be his best friend first because I don't want to learn to love him. What I want is for me to love him voluntarily because for me you loved him differently because you learned to love him and the one you loved voluntarily.
And I know you notice a lot of 'because' of what I said so please be patient.
Hanz is there at his work but he goes home to check on me.
I know it's so sweet that even if you don't love the person as much as he loves you, he won't leave you. The guy, even though he's busy, he really still has time for you.
Ekkk!
Hanz always texts me whether I have eaten or not. Even though he confessed to me and I agreed to seduce him, he still doesn't forget that he is my best friend. He's making pissed off, he's always calling me a Witch which I think until we die that's what he still calls me. He always teases me.
Ahhh just! The things he did to me when I was still a best friend, all I know is that he still does it but in a sweetest way!
OK, enough for storytelling and let's go back to reality. So that's it, I replied to Terrence.
What will that grass buy?
*Sige. Fetch me.*
That's my reply to him before I put away the cookies I ate with the new TV turned off. I went up to my room to get dressed.
By the way, the bulge in my stomach is pretty obvious because it's been three months and Hanz has decided that we will go to the States next month. I'm not supposed to work first. Papa is there so I won't stay first. Hanz and I are supposed to help with my childbirth expenses. At first I didn't agree but he said it was just help as my best friend. I still didn't agree until he said I would only pay him after I gave birth where I would work for their company as a Secretary. He said it might be E.A. he said I am but to make it fair for the others I have to work hard to increase my position.
I looked for a loose shirt but not the gangster one, the next one in style and leggings. Maybe we won't last long.
After I got dressed and put on cute Hello Kitty doll shoes I decided to go down, just in time our doorbell rang.
We haven't talked since Ball because I've been awkward. Is it your ex who suddenly kisses you and then gives you an award. Take note, he even asked for a second chance.
Geeeeez! If he hadn't left me before, we would still be here today and I wouldn't have known Kent who just left me.
But I don't like Terrence's brain ehh! Didn't he say, he loved Elaiza who was his former fiancé and now that Elaiza is dead then he will come back to me? What am I rebounding? But I know Terrence doesn't love me anymore its just that ... just that ... that ... EWAN! AS LONG AS I FEEL I DON'T LOVE TERRENCE ANYMORE.
(A/N: Hanep yang pandama mo behhh! How to do that po? Hahahah! D> ___ <bV)
So since the course of my life is still chaotic, I won't add another mess, maybe my baby will be ugly if I try to think even if I don't have a mind.
When I opened our gate Terrence appeared in front of me smiling.
Dati? I'm sure I'll jump with excitement when I see him smiling now but since that was before and we all know the saying 'Past is Past, never discuss' so I won't tell you about my echusan before because that was before. I now look plainly at him. I know I don't love him anymore.
"What's that?" He said at once pointing at me, more likely in what I was wearing.
What's with my look?
"What?" I said while still pointing at what I was wearing.
"It's okay. I thought you had a crop top ehh." He said once pulling my arm
Edi kita yung umbok 'pag nagcrop top pa ko? Eyyyyy!
"What are you going to buy and did you think to take me with you? What are you going to carry me with the pinam -----"
"Haist! You're still the same Nikita my girlfriend." He said while smiling.
Here we go again!
I just kept quiet because he would open our 'PAST' again when 'KAMI PA.'
"Nik, about the question I asked at Ball ---"
"Honestly Terrence, I'm happy about us now. I'm content with what we are now. I think we'll just be friends." Said Kohabang bent over.
"Nik, can't you give me another chance?"
"Look Terrence, your love is quickly turning to others." I said because I was starting to get bored.
He was silent but when he recovered, our car stopped because there was still a stop light.
"I-I don't know. I'I still love you." He said and me staring.
"No Terrence, you don't love me anymore. Maybe --- maybe you just want to find someone to love because you want someone to love you again." I said.
He was silent at what I said and also started the car because it was 'go light'.
"How did you say that?" Out lf nowhere he said so I looked at him but he still looked at the road.
"Elaiza I learned to love ..." He paused. "... I don't know what you have to love you on purpose. Is it bad to love the one you loved before?" He smiled sadly. "Is it wrong to betray the dead?" He smiled again. "And is it wrong for me to ask that my relationship with the one I love be more than just a friend?" This time he looked at me.
"Can't I ask you for a second chance? Nothing will stop us. My parents let me marry the one I love now." He said and I was surprised when he held my hand but the other one was on the steering wheel.
I fell silent and let go of his grip. That's right and we're at the mall. He parked of course don in the parking lot. He came down and opened it for me. We entered the mall together and I don"t know why we stopped here at a restaurant.
Did I think he was going to buy something?
"Why are we here?" I asked but he didn't answer me and just pulled me to a table and take note, we were in the middle.
"Our date." He told the waiter to approach us so I looked at him.
Did he marry me? Hokage tong highyup na to!
"I thought I'd buy you." I said and raised an eyebrow at him.
"There is, wait. Let's eat first before we go." He said but I just didn't answer him and just looked around.
I just don't notice that I see only couples. The design of this restaurant is romantic, so anyone who eats here, a man and a woman, will think they are lovers.
So what is that? Are we? Psssh! Di na pwede ehhh!
As I rolled my eyes I felt someone hold my hand. I knew Terrence but I just looked at him.
"Please Nik, please. Just one last chance and I will never waste it again." He said but I just looked at him.
"You can't." I said seriously and was about to withdraw my hand but he tightened his grip on my hand.
The food he ordered arrived but neither of us looked at the waiter.
"Why?" He said more and you can really tell him the sentence and sadness.
"Because I'm pregnant." I said without emotion and he was surprised so he let me go.
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