UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Chapter Ten

Flash Back

 We plan an escape and set everything in motion but when it is time for us to escaped, she is late. I waited for her but she never showed up in our secret meeting place, instead Don Alfred came and take me back to their home. My mind is so messed up, I did not talk to anyone for days because I am hoping to talk to her first to know what happen to our plan and why she did not show up in our meeting place. I want her to explain to me and promise me that everything will be ok, but she never come. No one would tell me where she is, I just heard the helpers talking about packing her things to send it in a private boarding school. That is when I realized that she left me. The pain of losing my parents then losing her is unbearable. Andrew and Greg are twin brother of the Prez family and they tried to make me laugh every time I feel sad and help me to cope up day by day. I am grateful to both of them for sticking with me even in my crazy days. I had no one so I always trying to run away with my own but I always got busted. Most of the time the twins are helping me with the plan but it is almost like the Don knew our move so they got punishment instead of me.

 Don Alfred and her wife offer to legally adopt me but I refused. They are both nice to me but seeing them and living with them will always remind me of the death of my parents and Nicole’s abandonment.  They don’t want to force me but they don’t also like me to be in the poster care so we had an agreement. They will send me to the boarding school the city to study and in return I will not try to disappear again. We agreed that when I reach the legal age, I can decide whatever I want to do with my life but until then, they will do the parenting thing. I decided to look for a decent job but because of my young age no wants to hire me, Don Alfred offered me a parttime job in a bakery his friend own near the campus and I gladly accept it. I want to have a degree but I don’t want to use a single dime from the mafia. Most of the girl my age that time is either busy in partying or too hung over to think their homework or projects. Me on the other hand is focus in studying and working so I graduated with flying colors. I worked my ass off very hard because I want to create a beautiful future for myself.   

When I reach the legal age, Don Alfred offered me my father’s chair in the mafia. He said that a bright woman like me can contribute a lot and in return, I will have a resources and power. The offer is good but I already set my eyes on one goal and that is leaving the mafia life behind me. So, I respectfully declined the offer then asked them to do their part in the agreement and that is to let me decide on my own. After that night, I flew to the next state. I already find the apartment where I will live and also enrolled in the near university. I find several jobs to cover the rent and bills because all of my savings is allotted for my tuition fee. I already working three jobs with crappy pay but still the money I earn is not enough. Don Alfred offered to pay for my college tuition fee but I refused, I want to finish my college on my own. I know it is stupid to refused their help but I really want to be as far away as possible in the mafia and me accepting their money will not do that.

I barely finish my 3rd year in college and I don’t have money for my enrollment for I decided to skip a year to work fulltime and save money. I decided to quit all my jobs because the time is long but the pay is smaller that the average 8hrs job. I was hired in the bakeshop where the work hour is morning then I got lucky and also accepted in the bar near my apartment where the shift is at night. The pay in both jobs is good so I tried so hard to focus on work and just work. But then again, I met Chris. He is a handsome fellow who happened to be my regular customer at the bar at night then also become my regular customer in the bakeshop. He is a newly assign policeman in our area so I see him a lot. At first, it is just a convo between a bartender and customer, then it became a funny banter with each other then in the longer run the talk about dreams and future, “our future”. We become a thing, and in nine months’ time we know each other we decided to move in together. I’ve never trusted anyone since the night Nicole abandoned me and our dreams, until Chris came. Everything seem to fall in to places, I had money for my last year in college, I still had my apartment, I still have two gobs and I have Chris. He fulfills the gap in my heart. I never tough that I will meet someone like him, he supported me in my dreams, he dints not push me to open up my past, and he stood by me in my hard time. I really though he is the one who I will spend my life with. Little I dint know he is hiding things to me. Things that may affect our future.

Chris was rush to the hospital because he fainted in the office, I am his emergency contact so the I came to check on him. I went to his room and I find a woman sitting in his bedside. She is crying while holding Chris hand, I came closer to ask who she is. She introduces herself as Beth the WIFE. The blood in my vein dried up and I can’t move. He is f*****g married. and he hide it to me… I should not trust him; I should not trust anyone. I excuse myself then run outside. I lock myself in my apartment and call in seek in my jobs... Am I that gullible? Why is everyone hurting me? why?