Rules of Love (UNDER EDITING)

Chapter 40

Hello, this is the last chapter of Rules of Love and if you're still here reading this I want to thank you a lot for supporting and being with me during my journey. To be honest writing Clyde and Dulce's story was kinda refreshing but hard as well and I still don't know if I portray them how I want them to be portrayed. As much as possible I want to finish this story clean but I think I failed on that but still thank you for all of you. I do hope that you have learn something through reading this and I do hope too that you like this story how much I like it. I'm not gonna say so many goodbye because definitely this is not the last book I'm gonna write, so please just be patient with me. Not gonna make this speech too long, enjoy reading the last chapter of Rules of Love. Epilogue next.

Chapter 40

Clyde and I are seating next to each other while her stepmother was seating in front of us. Nandito kami sa isang restaurant malapit sa condo na tinutuluyan namin ngayon ni Clyde. We're supposed to go to the mall and buy some kitchen stuffs para ilagay sa bahay na ipinapagawa namin sa Batangas, balak kasi talaga naming umuwi don sa weekends para bisitahin nadin ang mga pamilya namin and eventually para sunduin na din sila para sa kasal namin na magaganap sa isang linggo.

While we're walking bigla na lang akong may nabangga kaya agaran namin siyang tinulungan and it turns out nanay ko pala yong nabangga ko. Noong una hindi ko maintindihan kong bakit natigilan si Clyde nang makita yong nabangga namin hindi ko kasi talaga siya nakilala, she's far from the woman I knew years ago. She looks paler and halata na talaga ang pag edad niya. She's not the women who I use to see before everything falls apart, she looks thinner and sick.

As soon as Clyde sees her agaran niya itong tinulungan so I help her too but I didn't touch her, just her belongings na nagkalat dahil nga nag kabanggaan kami kanina. We enter the restaurant na malapit and here we are just awkwardly seating and looking with each other wondering kong sino ang unang mag sasalita.

I was just staring at the menu when suddenly someone holds my hand that is resting at the table, I look at it at nakita na ang nanay ko pala ang humawak non, gusto kong bawiin ang kamay ko pero hindi ko nagawa bagkus nakipagtitigan ako sa kanya. Naputol lang yon nang mag paalam si Clyde na pupunta siya nang rest room na alam ko naman na idinahilan niya lang. Gusto lang niya talaga kaming iwan dalawa dito para makapag usap kami.

Bago siya tuluyang umalis ay hinalikan muna niya ako sa noo at bumulong.

"I'll just be outside, text or call me if anything happens, I love you" After that ay tuluyan na siyang umalis at lumabas leaving me here alone with my biological mother.

As soon as Clyde is nowhere to to be seen ay agaran kong binawi ang kamay ko na hawak ngayon nang nanay ko tapos ay tumingin ako nang diretso sa kanyang mga mata.

Kita ko na ang pag ka dismaya niya dahil sa biglaan kong pagkuha nang kamay ko, what will she expect? I'll hug her because after all these years nagkita kami ulit? Well, I'm not gonna do that. Yes, I did really said na kakalimutan ko na lahat but that doesn't mean everything arounds us will change or how I should act in front of her change. It doesn't work like that.

"I see na kayo parin pala ni Clyde, I'm happy for the both of you anak" Kong dati baka naiiyak na ako sa sobrang saya kase finally tinawag niya akong anak pero wala na ako sa nakaraan nasa present na ako, I know her too well and I knew what she's trying to do right now.

"You can stop pretending now, nasa labas na si Clyde at kahit ano mang sabihin mo sa akin ngayon ay hindi naman makakarating sa kanya" Nagulat siya nong una pero nakita ko din maya maya ang unti unti niyang pag ngiti na para bang hindi siya natutuwa sa sinasabi ko.

"Fine as if I wanted to keep pretending that I love you, you and your freaking father is the reason why my life is ruined right now. Sinira nang Papa mo ang buhay ko noon at nong binuo ko ulit sinira mo naman" Hindi na ako nagulat at nasaktan sa lahat nang pinagsasabi niya kase kahit noon hindi naman niya sinubukang itago ang pag kamuhi niya sa akin at sa Papa ko, she always despises us ang hindi ko lang maintindihan ay kong bakit kong kailan siya tumatanda pabata nang pabata ang pag iisip niya.