SO CRUEL BUT LOVE IS LOVE TO THE END

Episode 3

They call the event Karma to the treachery of Lorenzo! Barely years before my Auntie died, one afternoon on a visit to her home, she confided to me she never loved my uncle…

I was shocked and later realized, in one of our quarrels with her daughter years back, she cried and appealed to me not to transfer but understand her attitude and I must know, one cause of her irritability was her emotional trouble with the truth that she was not the daughter of her known father!

This was my Uncle Lorenzo’s life as I had known in my younger years but, unknown to me were two old UGLY MACHINATION DONE BY HIM THEN. Aside from that, my mind rewinds back to one nasty event where my Uncle told me to act and testify as a false witness to a robbery that did not took place. It happened this way: His second son was then in the business of wood processing and I was one of his sidekick! To make it run efficiently he needed a delivery car and apparatus to process the woods and so he borrowed from a hardware- owner- friend and got it.

After few months operation, collection of the indebtedness comes and so his friend sent people to collect but he never paid and in fact avoided every time the people comes back and so the friend got upset and instructed to remove the apparatus and retrieve back the Car as well which was idly parked inside the compound! They got it but my Uncle Lorenzo intervened and so he destroyed some parts of the building inside the compound to make it appear it was illegally forced to do robbery and for the false crime, he made me a witness!

Like any bad intention, it did not prosper because the judge knew the truth that it was a drama invented by my uncle Lorenzo…his manipulation skills somehow leaked to rumor hungry people and it reaches the judge and so it was trashed!

Just few years recently, the family heir of my Uncle sold a 4 hectare lot in the city for twenty two million pesos. Quite a sum of money! My relatives told me of the news with sorrows and anger on their faces. Me too was sad and upset because the lot was owned by our Grandfather hence, all of us must have a share. We were duped by Uncle Lorenzo as far back as in 1938. He hood winked- managed to woo our Grandfather to sign something; not knowing that a big part of his property was transferred.

After the war, since my parents lacked financing for my brothers education, my Grandfather told us to re survey the area and divide it fairly but it was not finalized for reasons unknown to us. Sadly, we did not know yet that early on, the same lot was already transferred. Most smelly and foul, my Uncle Lorenzo did not inform my father, aunties, nephews and nieces!

Even in his death bed Uncle Lorenzo kept it a secret and I came to know it only when I researched the document in the Land Registry! It was one of his foolish ill- achievements while alive and I learned also that even his own brother and sisters were deliberately denied of their rightful share of their lands! That was what he did after he attained Manila Education much ahead than the rest of the provincianos in that part of country!

His wrong doings though did not pass unpaid to some extent because his family lived abnormal lives so far from common- happy- decency and five of them left the planet from illness but the doctors were puzzled as to their causes. For example, my Auntie had lingering illness from Psychosomatic defect in her brains and sadly died unhappy of her marriage life. Her eldest daughter had scandalous past having had an illicit affair with another man apart from his legal husband and later died with questionable reputation. The husband followed through after years of suffering from car accident while on duty as a policeman. Then just years back, Joe passed away a lonely man like any gay individual and left his wealth with no direct heir of his own. And the younger brother suffered stroke and his heart failure led him to death leaving his various ill gotten wealth to his orphaned kids who most did not finish college degree! And four years ago, the daughter of his wife but not from him died of a very rare causes; who suffered long and expensive at the expense from a gay brother who, in one occasion told me; the doctor said, she has no defect but won’t eat and so she became flesh and bones bedridden till she died.

I missed her so much because we were so close to each other since childhood and playmates, classmates at that, we grew together knowing the same fad and fashion, music and had love experiences we shared intimately away from other people and among relatives.

Soo scandalous was his crime when no less the LOVE LIFE OF ONE OF HIS SISTER HE TRIED TO MANIPULATE AND SUCCEEDED and this is the painful narration of Bro. Tyrone:

And as days went by during his part time job as a bookkeeper in one of his clients where Carmen, has also had work she dutifully attended to, they became close friends and became lovers and like any sweethearts; they had wonderful romantic companionship for a number of months and few years and just so unfair, an evil inspired cruel event ruined their beautiful relationship! They separated later on with sadness and pain in which they suffered for a long time!