"ANDREA AMARA MONTES"
Three Years Later…
"COME on, get inside, Andrea. Wait for your Uncle Marius here," that was what Mama Cecille told Andrea. Lana's three years old daughter.
That was when Andrea turned to Lana.
“Mo---,” everything that the little girl was about to say was cut off when a familiar sound of an engine car stopped in front of their house.
"Uncle Marius!" Andrea's cheerful cry as she enthusiastically runs towards the gate.
Mama Cecille voluntarily followed Andrea. While Lana was just smiling watching them.
Everything seems like only yesterday.
It seems like only yesterday when she was so scared to confess to her aunt that she was pregnant with Andrea.
Now, three years have passed quickly, and really in her heart, she has no regrets she raised Andrea. Her daughter that in fact, was the result of her long-held fantasy with her father, Andrew Scott.
Over time Andrew’s career as an actor has remained good. In fact, he has won awards many times in recognition of his skill and acting prowess.
But it wasn't like when she was just fantasizing about the young man. Now she is not very updated on his career unless she heard or see it on the news on TV or radio and of course social media.
"Mommy Uncle Marius has ice cream, look!" Andrea told her then ran to her to give her half a gallon of chocolate ice cream.
"Coffee?" Lana asked her best friend who had just arrived.
Marius shook his head. "Are you guys ready?" the young man asked.
"Yes," she said as she took the ice cream and put it in the freezer. "Are you sure Mama you don't want to come to the mall with us?" Lana to her Mama Cecille.
Mama Cecille shook her head. "I'm still finishing sewing, Lana, next time I'll come with you," she said.
"Bye, Grandma!" Andrea who kiss the old woman's cheek. "I'll buy you something," she promised so Lana couldn't help but smile.
*****
"ARE you dating Rhyza Cervantes, Andrew?" from examining himself in front of the large mirror in his bedroom Andrew was stunned to hear that voice of sister Samantha.
Andrew laughs weakly and then opened his mouth to speak. "None of your business," he replied picking up his favorite men's perfume then spraying it all over him.
"Oh, she's pretty but I wonder if," Samantha stopped in mid-sentence to keep him hanging of course.
Andrew's eyebrows met as he faced his younger sister. It's just the two of them together but Samantha really likes to bully him. Although he wasn't pissed at her, she still couldn't stop himself from riding on his sister's antics sometimes.
“What? Keep going,” he told Samantha.
Samantha shrugged then went inside his room and picked up a familiar blow-up picture standing on top of his chest of drawers.
"I wonder if she's as sweet as this fan of yours," his sister is referring to the sweet message written on the back of the frame.
"It's simple but I can feel her sweetness and her love for you. You know, Andrew, if you're not just famous and rich, I probably won't have a hard time being convince with the women you dated since the beginning,” she continued.
Andrew was immediately stunned by what he heard. At the same time registering a beautiful face in his mind. Then laughed softly and quickly dismissed that.
"I have to go," he said picking up the car key on the console table.
"Okay, see you at dinner?" Samantha followed him with that question.
"Nope, I'll be staying in my condo tonight," he said meaningfully to his younger sister who just raised an eyebrow at him.
He was in the car when the message alert tone of his phone rang. He thought it was Rhyza. The beauty queen he is currently dating. But he just laughed when he found out that its Samantha.
“I kind of like this L.A.M fan of yours. I hope you meet in person someday,” was her message to him.
Andrew just shook his head and laughed and then threw his cellphone on the passenger seat. Then he started the car engine.
Samantha wants him to see that woman who owns the blow-up picture that is in his bedroom right now.
But if you think about it, whoever she might be, she left his photo in one of the two bedrooms of the house bought by his aunt and former manager Tina Silverio.
Tina Silverio passed away two years ago due to breast cancer.
Anyway, his "fan" leaves that, meaning that the photo is no longer important to her.
Why would you choose to leave something important to you? Unless you want to forget it or it hurts you so much?
A bitter smile tore from Andrew's lips when he remembered the former manager who also became his mother figure in the long run.
In many cases, she teaches him what he better do. Steps that will not ruin his career, his image.
He has to admit that there are chances that he was almost a robot who follows everything Tina wants back then. But on the other hand, he also admitted that she is one of the big reasons for his success.
When she died, part of him was like a bird lost in a cage.
But also because he loved her like a second mother, he was hurt too much.
It was like the pain he felt when Blair, the only woman he loved so much, has gone from his life. The woman he dreamed of bringing home to the Philippines to get married.
Tina's children first offered him the house she had bought before she passed away.
And that was the house where Samantha actually saw the blow-up picture that she even brought home just to give that to him. And because he appreciates his deceased manager and aunt, Andrew did not hesitate to buy the house that, in fact, had just undergone minor renovations.
When Tina died, it was Patricia who held her. At the thought of that name, Andrew immediately smiled.
Business with pleasure is what the young lady actually wants from him.
Beautiful, young, and very aggressive in bed.
He is just providing and giving Patricia what she needs and vice versa.
Patricia is also aware of the women he dates and she is okay with them.
It's fine and nothing wrong with her that he is going out and seeing someone else.
Because everything between them is obviously and purely sex and body heat.
