Chapter 5
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I don't know how I managed to get away from everything.
All I know was I woke up with my phone ringing, bombarded with multiple notifications, messages, and missed calls.
I am wearing nothing but Azi's dress shirt I walk to my purse to answer the call. I look at the man peacefully sleeping on the bed, he is so cuddly for his big and muscle body.
"You are so screwed up! I am at the parking lot of the hotel where you are located! Get out of it now before the media get you!" Bern shouted, "And use the stairs!"
My mind came to the reality of the show we left on the restaurant yesterday. Yes, yesterday. It's freaking three in the morning now!
"Okay. F*ck. I'm on my way." I turned the phone and gathered my panties.
I'm so nervouse and doingmy best trying to find my clothes but then I realized he removed it on the front door! sh*t!
I was about to run when a felt a pain betweenmy thighs.
"Ouch." I whispered, cursing under my breath. I feel so sore!
I walked fast but with small steps to the door of the room.
That's when my eyes landed to the man sleeping, tangled with the sheets with red stain on it. I bit my lip. I had the chancd to look at him, memorize how he look before a felt my phone vibrated again for another message so I have to run fast now.
As soon as I worn my designer clothes, O run to the stairs.
"You and your lusty mind, Crissa Cate! Now I can't walk properly!" I hissed under my breath as struggle to run down the stairs.
This is so frustrating! I just got my v card swiped to a Delborja, and now I'm running like I'm cinderella!
I only have the time to breath after I settle down on Bern's car.
"I told you to use him and reveal himself as your long time boyfriend, but I never thought you'll really do it!" Bern shouted.
"Stop shouting already! Let's get out of here!" Leecy from the front seat shouted as well.
"Netizens never got the truth right," Magie started, "Now they counted the Delborja youngest as your third man!"
"When he is actually the second! For pete's sake!" Leecy exclaimed slapping her forehead.
"I don't even have a man, correction to that!" I shouted too.
"Not now that you are tainted to be a slutty model and queen wannabe! My goodness, Cate!" Bern fired back, "The waiter said that they saw the Delborja youngest having lipstick all over his face—!"
"All over his face?! It's just the side of his lips!" I corrected.
"Does that change anything?! You two are still seen making out in a VIP room of a restaurant!" Bern shouted angrily.
"That filthy mouth of that waiter! I will sue him!" I shouted.
"Do it and you will have another issue coming up reason for you to be out of this industry!" Bern shouted so loud as he pulled the break on my condo.
I feel like my soul left my body as silence ate the car. Only the hard breathing of the four us can be heard.
"The CEO was so mad an hour ago telling me to pull you out of Manila as soon as I found you. Any minute now, the medias will come here to find you and get you a statement for all the trouble you made," Leecy broke the silence, "What's you plan now?"
I breath in and out raking my brain to think of something good. Something ideal and something that will save my ass.
But. Nothing.
"H-how about my last photoshoot?" I gulped .
"Do you think you can still continue doing that even after all of this?" Bern pointed out, "You had your name burried deep down the casket. You even pulled a business tycoon with you."
I closed my eyes thinking of Azi. He's probably awake right now. Maybe he's trying to find me... or not?
"Did you have s*x with Calder Delborja?" Leecy asked straightforward.
"Leecy," Bern warned.
"What? I just want to know! She have a hicky on her neck! And we have to know what's coming next now that she's all ruined." Leecy explained.
From.the front seat, Bern and Leecy look back at me. Even Magie who's beside have to stay still to wait for my answer.
That's when everything went straight to my brain. How f*cked up I've become. My tears fell.
"Shit." Bern cursed shaking his head.
Magie immediately hugged me, "Oh, Miss Ma'am."
I cried and cried until I felt satisfied.
My mom will definitely be making a way either to make my clear name, bluffing all the news circulating just now to stand to her words of me marrying an old businessman or worse. She will use this to her advantage. She knows how rich the Delborjas are. She will definitely make this fire burn even more to get more attention.
I should've have seen this coming! But I never thought that this will circulate wildly!
"I have a villa on Francy's resort. It's far from where people usually stays and swim, plus, Francy will give you extra guard and safety." Bern concluded, "You will be safe there."
"But Francy is in a relationship with the Delborja eldest." Magie pointed out.
I sighed and come in to my senses.
"She's my friend, she'll put me on priority." I answered, "I'll... I'll call her."
I sighed and look at the blue sea and white sand infront of me as I sip my chamomile tea.
"Should I thank Francy for having a peaceful back view of this vacation house?" I whispered to myself.
Francy offered me a house separated but walking distance from her resort. She said that it's not safe to live in a privat villa when almost businessmen and celebrities are occupying them.
A two-storey wooden house with a rattan hammock is hanging on the terrace from the backyard, the sea and the white sand is the view. The front seems like a normal wooden house but never in your wildest mind thinking that there will be a beautiful view behind it.
"And a beautiful and sexy ex-model is living in it for two months now." I put my feet on the ground walking to the wooden path walk until I reach the wooden gate.
I opened the wooded gate and step my feet above the white fine sand. Sigh. Relaxing.
"No phones. No social medias. No visitors. No guests. No one to talk to. Just. Me—" I said as I heard two loud barks, "and my dogs. Calder! Babies!"
I kissed the top of the head of my huskies. Their tails excitedly wiggle. "Did you have fun playing?"
Cal talked in siberian husky ad if I can understand him.
"Yes, baby. Hmmm. You did have fun, huh? Can I join?" I asked excitedly.
They bark of joy and run as fast they can as I run after them giggling and laughing.
A downside of my fall is this. Living in a place far from everything. Far from my life before.
The dark with neon led lights of night bars, the flashing lights of camera from photoshoots and fashion shows, and the laughters of the people the trully loves me. It all faded now that I have nothing but my two loving dogs and this peaceful beach.
I have to love it. I have to compromise. This is where my feet took me after a while of flying with the fame.
My popularity did not saved my ass from all the bad things that were thrown at me. Instead, it pulled me more down to the mud face landed first.
As soon as they left me and cal and der here, I know nothingabout thenews outside. I wasn't given the chance to talk to my mom, to my other friends, and to my agency but a signing off video message to my fans were all I had before I left.
"Hi to all of my fans out there. To all my filipino fans and my international fans, I hope you're all having a great day." I started to chant my scripted video message to my fans.
With my pretty face slightly slapped by Magie to have a natural pink cheeks and my natural puffy eyes from crying a lot that same day, I faked a cry to make my fans believe whatever words I will say.
"I know, news about me trending the past few weeks in all social media. Been called hateful and unacceptable names from netizens, I tried to keep my silence. To keep my truth." I sighed dramatically recalling what's next on my next script, I shed a tear.
"I never, ever expected anything to blow up like this but I can't stay here and watch them call out my boyfriend after I was seen to be spending time with him." I started the drama, "I can't... I can't fathom the pain I felt thinking that we were being bashed when we're about to get marriend."
"Yes, this is the truth and I will say it once. I am not marrying that old hag just like what my mommy said. She's been implying for wanting me marry an old dying cow when I love and marrying somebody else! All of it were my mom's way of pulling me down. She doesn't want a young rich man for me! He doesn't want my Azi for me!" I cried even more.
Lies after lies after lies. I don't care anymore.
"The guy I wan seen with in a bar was none other than the same guy I was seen yesterday in a restaurant. Azim Calder Delborja. He's my boyfriend. My supposedly soon to be husband... but... but..." I cried like mourning for someone I don't know who.
A heart that died along with this fictional tale they made? Be my guest.
"I can't pull him to the mud. I can't take every single day with him knowing that these people wronged us and I am the reason. That... that when he have to break the engagement with me, I obliged. I accepted it." Just take it deep, Crissa. We're about to end it.
The last straw of my acting skills. I have to pour it all out. With my pretty face and believably acting skills, they will all crawl back to my side.
Act more. Look more sad, miserable, defeated, broken, and depressed. Do better. I will have their sympathy after this. I will clean my name after this.
I smiled sadly, still with tears running down my face.
"So now I'm here to end this all with a temporary good bye." I sniffed, "I have to heal and to find my worth after all this chaos. I have to go back to my old self before this. Before I met him."
I breathe in and slowly breathe out. I saw Bern moved near the camera. Waiting for my last words so he could turn it off immediately.
"I'm resting from modeling and from social media starting today. I hate and don't want to do this but this is for the best. Thank you for all the people who stayed by my side and for believing in me. I promise I will be back for a better me," I said, "But for now, I'm signing off. Sorry, thank you, and... good bye."
I smiled the pain. Pain... hmmm... funny.
I know that this video message, the truth— lie rather, I told everyone is not the best move to fix the situation.
But it's three of one. Three advantages and one disadvantages of that video message.
One, I cleared my name and not be called as gold digging b***h, sugar baby, and all the names; two, put my step-mom on pedestal and make her pay for all the trouble she caused me; and three, making these people with lack of judgement believe me and side me.
But the downside is that... one, Azi will be hated to death.
- Writer
