Baby Daddy For Hire

"Hey Baby! What's up?" I asked Luke with a wide smile plastered all over my face. Luke is a long-time boyfriend of mine...we've been together dating since junior high school. We attended prom together... We always celebrated each other's birthdays, and now we are in our senior year, graduating. Luke and I practically grew up with each other since our dads are also friends. They ran a business together back then, which is why Luke and I became close. "Took you long enough," he said coldly as I sat down in front of him at the coffee shop. My smile instantly faded as I looked at him, looking so cold and serious. "What's the matter? Why'd you call me here?" I ask, feeling nervous. He looks so serious that I couldn't read his mood right now, and that makes me feel uneasy. "Listen Isabelle..." Napalunok akong bigla sa sinabi niya.... It's the first time I heard him say my name. He used to call me Issa or baby, but now he calls me by my full name, which is unusual. "Is there a problem? Come on, you can tell me..." I said, trying to hide the tension I felt between us. "I ask you to come here because I wanted us to take a break," he said while looking at me straight in the eye. "Take a break? You mean go on a vacation?" I ask, pretending not to know what he meant. I know exactly what he meant because I've noticed the changes in how he treated me recently...he started to get cold towards me, avoiding my calls and not talking to me for days. "No Issa... I meant I wanna break up with you... End our relationship!" he exclaimed "Break up? But why so sudden? Did I do something wrong?" I ask, trying to stop my tears from falling. "Because I don't think I love you anymore..." My heart sank. "Why? Was it something I did? Something I said? “I'm sorry... Just please let's fix this!" I pleaded. "I'm tired of you...That's why I asked Jessica out. I mean Jessica and I have been dating for months now, and I think I'm in love with her." I was taken aback by what he said. I didn't expect him to say that. I know that he and Jessica are close friends, but I didn't think that they would cheat on me. "You were cheating on me?" I ask with the hint of pain in my voice. "I'm sorry...I didn't mean to hurt you, but just look at you... Jessica looks so much better than you! And you're also clingy and boring...always talking about school stuff when we are together! I'm sorry, I just can't be with you anymore!" Sobrang sakit ng mga sinasabi niya na para bang humihiwa ng dahan daan sa puso ko ngunit nagmakaawa pa rin ako sa kanya. "Luke, please...don't leave me! I will change my look...I won't talk school stuff anymore...just please..." I cried, begging him to take me back. I know that I didn't look like Jessica. He's right, Jessica is so pretty. She's the cheerleader, she's very popular, and I know that I can't compete with her. "I'm sorry, Issa... I just want to enjoy my life, and I can't do that with someone so boring like you. "That hurts, like a knife stuck in my chest! With that, he left me there shocked and confused. Gulong gulo ang isip ko. Litong lito ako sa mga nangyayari. Pinipilit kong unawain ang mga nangyari pero tila hindi gumagana ang isip ko. I started to walk home even though I had a driver assigned by my dad to drive me from home and school. My tears started running down my cheeks... Feeling heartbroken, I just walk and walk and walk....until I later arrived at home and immediately heard my dad crying and begging my mom. "Please, honey, don't leave! I promise I will do better! Just Don't leave us..." My dad cried, begging my mom not to leave, but my mom seemed to have made up her mind already. "Mom, where are you going?!" I asked.. My mom looks at me coldly as if I am not her daughter. "I'm leaving! I can't take it anymore! I can't be with your dad while he struggles with his company.. I know he will eventually declare bankruptcy, and I cannot live being poor! I deserve so much more.... I deserve to be with someone who can fulfil my needs!" Mom shouted as she shoved me and walked past me. "What about me? What about Dad?" I ask, hoping that she would change her mind, but she just looked at us without even a hint of guilt in her eyes. She turned around, leaving us as she drove away in her car. My father and I begged her not to leave, but our plea fell on a deaf ear. I wanted to go after her... I wanted to stop her... I wanted to run and make her come back... But my knees weakened and I dropped to the ground, trying to process what just happened. Did my boyfriend and my mom just leave me? Did the two most important people in my life just leave me? Why? Am I that boring to be with? Am I so annoying to be around? Am I not important enough to them? How can they leave me like that? Sitting there on the ground feeling helpless beside my dad made me feel so alone. My tears wouldn't stop pouring down my face... I felt so weak... I was so confused... So Shocked... So hurt... So heartbroken! For days I prayed so hard, hoping that they would come back to me... I wish that Luke would realize that I'm the one he truly loves and he's just confused... I wish that my mom would realize that we are her family and that she loves us more than money... I prayed to have a whole family again... I wish that I could see my dad smiling again... I prayed that the pain would just go away... I prayed and prayed.... So hard every night.... But I think no one is listening... "Why won't you answer my prayers?!!" I shouted in my room, asking God why He wasn't answering me. I watched my father sob every night. My heart felt like someone had stabbed it with thousands of knives. Seeing Dad like that broke me. I can't even explain how painful it is to watch him fall apart. That day, I realized that no one could help me and that they're not coming back anymore, and that same day I promised myself that I won't go through this pain again... I won't let someone hurt me again like this! Never again!