Stay with me

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It's been three days. 

I haven't left this room since last friday. 

I have a very important presentation at work due this afternoon but all I think about is her. Her excuses. Her lies. Her betrayal. I got up and took a shower. zombie mode. I have to be at the office at 9. My bestfriend Sally will be waiting for me and a lot of big things are at stake. My promotion, the future of the company and the fate of most of our employees. We have been preparing for this for a long time. I have to close this multi-million peso deal. I need to. 

I have always been responsible. I graduated valedictorian in high-school, magna cum laude in college and finished my post graduate business degree with flying colors. I have always been the smartest and the brightest. When my father passed away, my mother, my two older brothers and I were not allowed to see him. We were his second family and in the rich chinese culture, we do not exist. From then on,  I promised myself that I will succeed with everything that I do. That I did. I was offered full scholarship from all of the prestigious university here and abroad and when I graduated, the top advertising firms lined up to hire me. And ofcourse being the top notch that I am, I have chosen to be part of one of the biggest Ad Agency in the country, JBD Corp.. But just like in reel and real life, shit happens. One bad deal led to another and today we are at the brink of being bought out by our once successor in the business, Wells Advertising. I will not allow this to happen. I am a strong willed woman. What Jade wants, Jade gets. But now, hours before the probably most important presentation of my life, I am siting here, having my morning coffee and thinking about how she, time and again, has managed to give me this unbearable pain. Best timing. As always.

Just like every superman or woman, I have my kryptonite. My addiction. My Achilles heel. This one person that continues to hurt and break me but I can't let go. My strength and my weakness. Sally would always tell me: "Nung nagsabog si God ng katalinuhan, may baon kang malaking timba kaso nung nakita mo na sya, nabitawan mo ata. "  But what can I do? She is  the love of my life. My joy and my pain. My Althea.

Authors's Note: 

May magbabasa ba nito? pls lemme know what you think. thanks.