I HATE YOU◕◕

The Past 3: Unwelcomed Reveal

Sun was setting spilling the golden rays apparently couldn't take it anymore, as both mother & son hasn't left their place one is crying lying on the cold floor & the other is against the freezing wall crying because of their tilted fortune, both yearning for each other's warmth.

Ming's eyes were dried now he couldn't even understand how suddenly his life has changed, how the light of his life changed into sheer darkness. He didn't knew what he could do or what not.

"Ming" a silent call fell on ming's ears and he didn't even needed to turn to see who is calling him,

"Ming, I know you are angry & you probably h-hate me" the voice was louder yet it was breaking,

"But please listen to me first then you can hate me all you want" she pleaded & sat near the boy maintaining an appropriate one arm distance, to which the boy just turned his face away clearly not interested in seeing her face, which for obvious reasons pained her.

"I was nine when my father sold me to marcos for two bottles of beer" just after listening to this ming couldn't help but to snap his head back to his mother in shock only to see a blank expression on her face.

She wasn't even crying like before, she had some weird vacancy of expression covering her face, filling Ming with dread of what he will hear further.

"As I was too small & petite they could only use me as house help so I was appointed to clean the whole whore house under marcos . They started giving me drugs to increase my body's ageing as only by cleaning the house I couldn't pay those two bottle's price completely." Anong chuckled bitterly as a lone tear slipped off her eye,

"Till I was 12 my body looked like a girl of 16 years so they sent my first customer, a 40 year old man, to me when I was sleeping and he--- h-eee" she couldn't complete it as she couldn't stop the whirlpool of emotions building in her, ming didn't knew what to do, he hasn't seen his always smilling mother ever cry like hell broke and now she is.

"After that night till two years I always tried to stop my misery but I couldn't muster the courage to either escape that hellhole or this world. Then one day suddenly a doctor was called and he told me that I was pregnant" she took a deep breath and then started,

"That was the day, the very first day when I realized how it feels to be happy," she had a soft smile ghosting on her lips as she turned to him & continued,

"I could feel you breathing in me, with me. Everyone told me get rid of you but I don't know how the courage came in me and I decided to stand for you. I still remember how I stood against all of them, they kept trying different things but I didn't bulged from my decision. And all this paid when I saw you smilling in my arms".

"After your birth I again started to dream, dream of your better future, about how I could get you out of that hell. About how you will have everything I never had, about how you will be able to live a normal life not a life like some insect in gutter. And then I decided to make a deal with marcos and bring you out of there. He gave me permission to continue the work from afar in return I will stop protesting, and then I took you here"

"Why don't you leave all this?" anong couldn't help but chuckle bitterly at the boy's innocent question.

"Its not easy, the place that I am in has no exit, one can enter by their wish but they can't leave here easily. The stigma that I carry will only wash off by my death now" her eyes were looking at the void of the sky as if asking the gods for help, she turned to her boy and this time her eyes were glistening with hope.

"This is why I want you to study, you to live the dream that I could only yearn for. I want you to shine so bright that my darkness will hide" the boy could understand her language not only from her tremblingly speaking lips but also by her teary eyes.