All About Love, s*x & Money

Prologue

Present

You remember asking yourself as a kid "what do I want to be when I grow up?" and you wanted to be a doctor like most kids would say but you ended up being an engineer, the IT guy, a dropout but a businessman, or a nurse because that was in-demand before, as the media in the Philippines wanted you to believe in the early 2000s but today nurses are applying for customer service jobs or trying to get away of the country because nurses are paid better out their, and today no one talks about how the Philippines was so hyped of being a nurse before. 

The point is, today is 2022, and it worked out fine for me in the past 20 years, but on a different level and it's about mentality, career, emotionality, or I don't know maybe s*x appeal and I didn't see this coming, I started out as a kid who got bullied for being skinny, dumb and doesn't know the difference of you're and your I've always thought that I'll become a loser, but no, life doesn't work that way unless you let it, today doesn't matter, what matter is how you handle each day and if something gets messed up, you fix it, you move on from it, and you learn from it but when things gets f*cked up..........

Damn.... I'm f*cked....

I was driving my way back home, speeding across the expressway, there is no traffic but there is heavy rain going down with my hazard and fog light on, I remembered an ex-girlfriend, she told me before that turning on a hazard light can be dangerous because cars behind you would not be able to understand if you're signaling a turn or switch lanes, Oh Yes!, it wasn't my Ex, it was Tonny's.

I came to my senses again with these never-ending random thoughts, I remembered why I was rushing home and now reaching for my phone. I was trying to call Ali, I've finally decided to take responsibility to clear things out for everyone, but I think it wouldn't work out fine because I messed up big time, I thought I was crazy but it's just all about me. I mixed up my priorities, I mixed up my beliefs, I was mixed up with how Tonny and JR defined the world.

Ali answered the phone angrily and confused:

"What in the actual f*ck is happening, Aris?!"

"Where the f**k are you?!"

"What the hell Aris?!"

"Just f*cking tell me, who the hell is Tonny and JR?"

I replied trying to calm her down:

"Ali, please relax, I'll tell you everything but right now where are you?"

Ali responded:

"Don't you tell me to relax! I'm in your house and there are two women here looking for Tonny and JR"

"Are you with them? Coz they're having the same tone as I am!"

I replied: 

"I'll be there, I'm already on my way, you guys relax okay? bye, I'm driving"

So I took a deep breath as the cold weather is already coming inside me, my heart was pounding not just because Ali was shouting at me, it's because this time they're looking for JR and Tonny. 

From the looks of it, she was talking about Claire and Lisa, they're probably in the living room now, since Claire has always had the keys at home for some certain "Tonny reasons", a little awkwardness should have surfaced already, maybe because they've realized who each other are, or maybe they're just their silent, waiting for me to come, or perhaps waiting for everybody to come, but this is the actual reality I will accept and it's not about money or s*x, it's about love getting mixed up. 

Well, weird things happen if you spend too much time trying to figure out what lies ahead than actually seeing it for yourself. Things get weird when you try to be yourself and sometimes try something new just to discover the deeper potential in yourself. This is all about how Tonny, JR, and especially me f*cked up the story that we tried to unite and in the end love, s*x and money just don't add up together.