Free
“It can’t happen Cloud!”
“I’m doing everything I can dad!”
“You’re not doing enough, Cloud! Do something!”
I adjusted to the seat of the new scene. I turned to the kitchen. Where is manang? This is what we have been waiting for.
“Manang! They’re Cloud and Lea! Hurry up manang!” I shouted.
Manang ran next to me. I stepped back so it could sit on the sofa.
“What happened Lea?” Cloud asked when he saw Lea, he said nothing. She just hugged the man.
I continued to sip popcorn while keeping my eyes on the tv. This is the teleserye that manang and I watch every afternoon.
There are as many as two TVs here in their living room. The cable and not. At the top your cable is at the bottom it is not. Manang enjoys the local show and teleserye so he can’t use the tv above. The two are not watching either.
Hating brother, two diseases. That’s the title. The actress loved the two sisters. He chose Hero because he was the one to get married just in case he got caught with another woman. Cloud, on the other hand, was just waiting for him clearly, because he had been waiting for him for a long time.
“I-I don’t know what to say, Lea…” Cloud said after Lea talked about Hero’s witnessed infidelity.
It sobbed in his chest.
“Why is this happening to me, Cloud? Is it karma because I loved you two? I didn’t do anything wrong but why is that ?!”
Could kissed Lea too tightly. It’s really unfortunate Lea, she really loves Hero but she just cheated on him.
I looked at manang who was sniffling beside me. It cried at the scene.
Letse! Who wouldn’t cry! She saw that the man she loved had a woman! I stopped chewing peanuts when I realized that Lea and I had something in common apart from L being the beginning of our name. That’s to see another woman with a lover --- what am I saying ?!
Letse naman Lineah! That’s just the effect of the teleserye so what’s what comes to your mind!
The scene is different again, now the stars are in the conference room. Their older brother arrived. They are a rich family, the two brothers are like Theron and Thander who have big businesses.
“What is happening?” Leah’s father asked.
The father of the two came over and sat across from it.
“She saw him with another girl.”
Cloud’s father stood up.
“What kind of problem is Hero going to give us now ?! The more problems we have, the more he will add! He’s showing even more that he doesn’t deserve to be the heir!”
“Call the wedding planner! Lea is getting married tomorrow!” Leah’s father said.
“Who will Lea manang marry?” I asked about the commercial.
“Probably Cloudy! Cloud and Lea are the stars so they will definitely end up together in the end.”
“Let’s do something, man! I don’t know because Lea is forcing herself on Hero, that’s crazy! She’s something for Cloud! If I’m the only one to choose Cloud, I’m not!”
“Who’s Cloud?”
“The one we’re watching in the teleserye iho.” Manang Lidya replied to Theron.
Miraculously, it came out of his office. He was there all day. I glanced at him. Body fit wearing this blue T-shirt. Her body was more beautiful because of that, especially her chest.
I didn’t finish looking at his whole body when the teleserye returned.
“I can’t, dad! Aren’t you ashamed yet ?! I’m not going to get married! If Hero doesn’t want to, I’ll accept! This arranged marriage isn’t good! By Hero! That’s wrong! “
“Lea I hope you understand us—”
“I understand you want to save the business peep there is another way! It doesn’t include Cloud and me tying us up. Yes I loved him but it’s different now. It’s wrong for you to put us together because I can only hurt him.”
The intensity of the scene of Lea and her father’s case suddenly moved to another scene. They finished talking. What is on TV now is Cloud and his father.
“Dad, I can’t”
“Why Cloud?”
“He loves Hero Dad, he loves my brother.”
“Don’t you love her too? Don’t you deserve Lea?”
“Dad it’s not the—”
“I know what you did to Lea. Don’t you even want to make up for the stupidity you did to her life? You used her Cloud! Kidnapped and exploited!”
“How dare you do that to her ?! Are you two going crazy huh ?! You want to be giants somewhere and get their business the wrong way! I’m not right ---”
My forehead furrowed as the TV screen blacked out. I looked at Theron in the back, holding the remote.
“Why did you kill? That’s so nice!”
“You shouldn’t be watching that. It’s nonsensical and unreal.”
“Are you unreal there? You’re the one ---” I didn’t finish what the man was going to say, realizing that manang Lidya was right next to me and he didn’t know how I met them.
“That’s mine!”
It avoided the remote when I tried to pick it up. Letse naman! It’s just that I’m busy here, he’ll ban it!
“That’s what I’m cooking! I’ll leave you first, Sir.”
Theron asked Manang to run to the kitchen. Theron preceded me to speak.
“Go to my room,” he said.
Are we going to have sex? It’s too early. Can’t it wait for the night and want it now?
Huh?
What?
Why?
Is that so?
Don’t you think so?
Do you understand?
“Does multiple orgasms enable you to hear Lineah?”
The heat crawled down my cheek. It’s Theron! ‘That’s what I think. How many more times happened in the kitchen. I was always awake drunk, every time I went to the kitchen Theron and Thander were there, sometimes just one of them.
Even though I also forced Theron a few times to try what he did to Honey before, he wouldn’t agree. Manang Lidya almost caught us several times. Thander is always hanging unlike Theron who was the first to survive.
I also fell in love with coffee because of what we did. It tastes better when it’s in Theron and Thander’s body.
“Do you want me to carry you to my room, Lineah?”
“Turn it on!” I stuttered.
We’ve been sitting on Theron’s bedroom sofa for over twenty hours. Only when I chew popcorn is the noise apart from the movie we are watching. He rarely has free time every afternoon so, it’s funny because he chose to watch the two of us a movie instead of taking a break. Yes it has time to have sex with me, every night or morning. Not in the afternoon because that time was for his business.
Its warm palm remained on my thigh throughout the show. The first one is over and we are just watching it. He let me choose what to watch. What used to be action is now romance.
I glared at Theron at my side. My chewing on the pop corn slowed down as we both stared at each other. His piercing eyes stared at me. Even though Im drowning in his stare. I didn’t look away. I want to drown in his gaze, just in case I reach the deepest part and get to know him better, not as Theron who just winked at me.
I need more time to get to know him. I don’t want to leave yet.
He looked down at my lips. Next I swallow. Its palm brought a strange heat to my thigh.
I stared at his luscious lips. I rested my hand on his knees. He looked down at me, and immediately looked up at me.
He leaned forward. He stopped, and was only inches apart. He brushed his lips on mine.
My breathing get heavier each time his lips hit me. I wanted to bite his lip but his cell phone didn’t ring.
He left the room to talk to the caller. I heaved a deep sigh. My shoulders slumped.
Letse naman! Who called that? It’s a nuisance!
More than ten minutes since Theron left, he still hasn’t come back so I just took some popcorn to the kitchen because the bowl was running low.
My forehead furrowed as I passed Theron’s office. The door is a little open. He was standing near his desk, it was dusty. His eyebrows met while the caller was still talking. They seem to be talking seriously.
I could not hear what they were talking about so I came over and peeked.
“Did you transfer it to our names?”
What are they talking about? Theron nodded again.
“Good. Our plan is successful.” He said.
Is their plan a success? Most likely it’s about business. Maybe they got someone to become an investor.
“She’ll be free soon.”
