My Sexy Secret Agent

C2

Mama, and aunt Lucy hugged me when I arrived at our ancestral house. I looked up at the house that was built during the Spanish period. This house is two-storey and quite big. The Alde brothers lived here. They live by the Alp spring of more than five hectares and by my late grandfather's pet chickens.

"Mom, it's Francesca." At the same time, Aunt Lucy introduced me to Lola Siling.

I smiled but Lola Siling frowned.

"Why didn't anyone tell me that Daniel is a hill?" Grandma was smiling at me.

"Well, it's been a long time." Teddy caressing.

My cousin looked at me and shook her head while standing up the angry Lola Siling. The last time I saw her, she's not like that.

"I think mom's Alzheimer's is getting worse." Aunt sighed.

I can not believe. Maybe it's been a long time since I've been back. As far as I remember, Lola's memory was still sharp back then. But in fact, that is the most common disease of the elderly. Lola is ninety-seven years old and her head is full of white hair.

"Oh, Craig, take your stuff with Chesca upstairs. It's in the room next to yours." Mom ordered my sister when she saw the luggage I was carrying.

I squeezed my hand and looked again at the house where the pillar was moving, "Mama, I won't be here for long."

Mom frowned and pulled me to the sofa in the living room.

Mom and Aunt Lucy sat on either side of me. Uncle and papa looked busy in the backyard.

"I want to go back home." When I agree.

Our house is concrete and somehow it's fine. Dad works for the government so somehow we were able to get out. Along with the money we receive from Alegria, that's just right. But now that he was forced into early retirement due to his grandmother's condition and the fall of the Alps for unknown reasons, our life has turned a bit sideways.

"Ches, if we have no choice, we might sell the house." Mom said.

"Ha why?" My eyes widened at what he said.

I can not believe. We have been in that house for a long time and I never thought we would come to this decision.

"What's really the problem, mama? Why does it look like we're about to sink into poverty?"

Mom and aunt Lucy looked at me. Tiya spoke first who now seemed to be struggling with how to tell me everything.

"I sent Teddy home. The Alps, Chesca, we don't have that title."

"How come it's not, eh, it's ours, right?"

Aunt immediately shook her head. "Mom mortgaged it to the Dela Merceds about 15 years ago."

"HUH?" My jaw dropped.

"Yes." Auntie shrugged her shoulders. "But that's not a legal mortgage. Your grandfather and Don William Dela Merced were friends. You know your grandfather was a gambler. That's why he was forced to mortgage the Alps. There was no case back then because the two were friends. But now that he's dead the two of them and we surveyed the entire land again, we can't get the rights then because the title is gone."

"Where?"

"What, Chesca? It's with the Dela Merceds."

I'm not good at popular surnames here in Alegria. I was not born here and I am not familiar with the people who live here. All I know is that the common occupation of the people here is farming because of the fertile soil and wide plains and mountains.

"So? If we ask-"

"Your grandfather's debt of 500 thousand pesos must be paid before it can be obtained from the Dela Merceds."

I saw depression in the eyes of my mom and aunt. I swallowed. That much money?

"Now that their cattle ranch has expanded, the Dela Merceds are also surveying their land. You know that the beginning of the land of the Dela Merceds is just the edge of the Alps, we heard that they will include the entire Alps Spring in the survey."

"It's terrible, Tita. Isn't Tinago enough for them? Ssss." Craig was shocked.

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He immediately looked down on me. I also gave him a bad look.

I snorted at Aunt and mom, "What can I do for the Alps if I'm here?"

That's the puzzle in my brain. I can't do anything. I'll just be a burden here in Alegria's farm because I don't know anything other than eating.

I tapped my cellphone when I saw that my signal was only one bar. There are messages coming in but it will be difficult to send another message. On a network, it's pretty okay because there are two signal bars and I can text well. My load is going down.

"Come on! Yuhoooo!" Teddy shouted.

He and Craig decided to just go for a walk because mom was almost furious with me because I didn't want to enroll in community college. Yes, I like to be practical. But now that I've separated from Clark and realized that he was right, I wish I'd just let him help me study, I've lost my appetite for it.

'm irritated. Because Craig, who hates the farm, looks like a chameleon who has blended in here. Both Teddy and him were wearing shorts and white sleeveless. Teddy has a ball cap while driving in their old pick up.

"Brother, don't be sad. It's fun here in Alegria." Craig said that to me with a touch of sarcasm.

"Yes. That's it." Teddy pointed to a wide soccerfield. "That's where the people of Alegria play soccer."

I watched the men playing soccer there. In the distance I saw a church.

"That's where they go to church."

"Obviously." I dreamed.

The roads there are sparsely populated. Maybe the largest gathering of people is at the soccer field. I guess that's the center of Alegria. There is a market in front of the church where it is crowded because the entrance is near.

"Craig and I are going to go shopping first. You? You want to go shopping?" Teddy asked.

"Why should I shop, hey, I'm not going to study here."

"You don't have a choice, we don't have any money for Manila." Craig said lightly.

We got out of the car.

"I'll just wait here." I said and leaned against the car door.

They both nodded and left. I fold my arms and watch the people rioting for Jologs stuff. Yes. I could see from where I was standing that girls my age were fighting over a dress that I couldn't understand the design of. As soon as I was far away, I could already see the ugliness of the materials used here.

I laughed to myself as I thought I would die before staying in this remote area. I straightened up when I suddenly felt my floral sleeveless top being torn.

"Leche! Teddy's pick up is rusting!" I ordered to get away from there when I saw a hole in my clothes.

I bit my lip and looked at the size of the hole in my dress.

"s**t! This is going to be loved. It's really stupid. Bad trip." I whispered while still looking at the hole.

"Oppps, sorry!" A man in a jersey laughed.

I don't know if he meant to bump into me or if I was actually blocking his path. But on his face now it looks like he did it on purpose. He has an evil smile and is still winking.

"Ew. Jejemon." I whispered to myself.

"I'm Koko by the way." At the same time, he held out his hand to me.

I bit my lip because I was laughing. Not out of joy but out of mockery of his name. Coco? Coco Martin? Koko Crunch!? I almost burst out laughing so I bit my lip even more.

I just nodded and accepted his hand.

"Chesca." My order.

"Koby, come on!" A man also wearing a jersey shouted.

"See ya later, alligator."

I just shook my head. Jusko. To hell with you! It's really corny. He winked at me before turning around. Little by little my jaw dropped when I saw the back of his jersey.

"La Merced." I twitched.

I couldn't get him out of my head until Craig came along saying this…

"I bought you this notebook and you might change your mind. I don't know if you like plants or dogs-"

"Leche!" My face was hot with anger. "Said no!"

"Oh, well, there's nothing we can do! I've already bought." He put down the notebooks inside the car.

I was still angry as Teddy took us for a walk around Alegria again. I didn't do anything but be cheap and pay attention to the ugly things of Alegria.

"What is this? A pothole? Isn't it cemented? Doesn't the cement reach here?"

As time went on, I hated Alegria more and more. It wasn't so bad at first, but now at the same time as I miss Clark and his air conditioner and his smelly car, my suffering here in this lifeless place, I can't do anything but shake the offer to live here student.

We were in the Alps when I felt a little better. As long as my stupid brother doesn't talk to me, I feel better.

"Dad fired someone the other day. So cleanliness is not maintained very well." Teddy took honey from the leaves that fell on the floor of the spring.

Many people still come and bathe here. But Teddy said that the Dela Merceds might ask for a split of the income by the time the survey of their land is finished.

"Why are they surveying the land?" I asked as I watched the children bathe in the warm water of a lagoon. "By the way... I saw a Dela Merced earlier in the market."

Teddy snorted at me. "They are surveying the land because they are going to transfer the name of the entire rancho to a special heir."

I nodded, "Who is the heir."

"Maybe the one you saw earlier. He's the only Dela Merced."

I brushed my hair and raised an eyebrow.

"That's arrogant, huh?" I said.

"Hmmm. Maybe. I don't know. I don't associate with that." Teddy laughed.

"If only I were a woman..." Craig's voice immediately made the lungs of anger heat up in my system. "I will make that Dela Merced fall in love. And I will make her spin. I will tell her to just give us the land. Hmmm. Or I can also find the deed with the title of the land in their house and bring it home to us."

Craig and Teddy gave me evil smiles. I shook my head and tormented the two.

"Don't involve me in your stupidity." My order is straight.