MY STEP BROTHER, THE BILLIONAIRE #Wattys2017

ONCE UPON A TIME

Juno (2007)"In my opinion the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

- Mac
Author: This story has not been edited. This is one of the stories I wrote when I was still starting with WATTPAD. There grammars that has not been corrected, flaws that I have not noticed when I was weiting it. My Tagalog must have been so mababaw and excessive use of "EHs" ...please ignore them for now. Don't worry maganda naman yung story. Naka 400k plus reads nga di ba? And should you want to rudely correct me, i DM/PM niyo. Don't write it sa comment section. Idedelete ko pag nakita ko. Pasensiya na sensitive writer here...tsaka, LIBRE NAMAN MGA STORIES KO.

Once upon a time in far away land there lived a young girl named September. She is a fair young lady with braces and freckles. The young lady lives with her mother, a dentist. She is nothing like her daughter. The dentist is beautiful and tall. Damn she's even so sexy. The dentist is a widow. One day, a handsome King came to sweep her off her feet and they fell in love....oh damn, I can not even think of that without barfing. Ugh!

Okay my name is September and I am the princess in the story. Well I pretend that I am the princess and my mother is the queen, but then well in reality, my mother is a dentist and I am twelve.

Three days ago my mother got married to a rich man, billionaire, Dante Antonio. Okay they met in my school actually. You see, my Mom is the famous Dr Marie Claire Sison, dentist of the rich and famous. She's twenty eight years old. Okay maybe you are counting the age gap between us. She had me when she was sixteen. My father was her classmate at Senior High. My grandmother helped in raising me up but she is not so well now. She's old and she stays in the US with my Mom's sister. I learned that when Mommy got pregnant with me at 16, no one in the family blamed her for it. They said that they loved me when they saw me. My aunt is older than Mom and she is married now with triplets. They are aged 6 and my grandmnother adores them too. Not that I mind but my grandma likes it there in ther US so instead of her visitng here in the Philippines, Mommy and I visit her there. My aunt just lost her husband Uncle Bill to the war. He is a West Point graduate and a young Army officer. His tank got blasted off during a patrol in Afghanistan leaving his triplet sons and my aunt. Maybe that is also a reason why Gramps likes it there and Aunt Bea, welcomes the presence of their parents as help.

I am now lying in a strange bed in a strange room in a strange house. Tito Antonio took us in his house. Siyempre saan naman kami titira kundi dito sa bahay niya. My mom and I live in a condominium at the Mckinley Hill in Taguig and its a pretty big place for the two of us. But since Mom is just a millionaire and she got married to a billionaire, naturally we follow the husband.

I go to school at Poveda, a freckled face with wire braces and plays the drums. I'm just a wierdo who looks so weird and has not ambition in life. Actually I would like to conquer the world someday.

"September, bangon ka na diyan at kakain na."

That's my yaya, Yaya Mercy. Masungit tong yaya ko na to eh. Siya na lang palagi ang nasusunod. Lumaki na ako sa kanya actually pero masungit wala nakakalapit sa akin na boys sa akin. Well, wala naman talaga lalapit sa aking guys at ang type nila yung mga ala Barbie and hitsura. Eh hindi naman ako mukhang Barbie. Kaya safe. Pero itong si Yaya parang Nanay na eh. Well like every Yaya in school, buhat niya lahat ang gamit ko hahahaha yan ang maganda I don't get to carry anything. I also have my own driver, si Kuya Dennis. Actually itong si Yaya at Kuya Dennis nagliligawan sila eh. Si Yaya mas bata lang kay Mommy ng two years. Mommy got her when I was 3 years old na.

"Di ako nagugutom eh. Pwede bang banana na lang ang kainin ko Yaya?"

"Hindi pwede. Nandun na si Rafa hinihintyay ka niyang kumain. Bilisan mo at baka magalit yun. Mukhang suplado huh. At ang tawag pala sa kanya dito eh Senyorito Rafa at ang itatawag daw sa yo sabi ni Cora eh Senyorita September pero ang haba kaya sinabi ko ang nickname mo. Hahahaa"

"Anong nickname?"

"Berta"

"Yayaaaaa"

"Joke lang. Sige punta ka na dun at naghihintay na ang hari. Baka puntahan ka dito. At hindi ko pinalitan ang pangalan mo sa kanila. Pabayaan mo silang kanda hirap sabihin ang pangalan mo."

"You're mean yaya."

"Magpalit ka muna at nakakahiyang lumabas ka dun na naka pajama.

You see, the strange house did not come with Tito Dante only, who by the way is the nicest billionaire that I have met, not that I have met a lot but he talks to me. He never ignored me. When I met him for the first time he was nice to me already. It felt like he was really my dad. He made me feel like he really is my dad. My dad by the way is ajerk from California who never in my twelve years of existence came to see me. I heard he is now a big time lawyer in New York. But I really don't care about him. I got his blue eyes according to Mom.

"Good morning Kuya."

"I have been waiting here for hours. The food is so cold already I might not be able to eat now. Breakfast is 7 am and we don't eat unless everyone is here."

"Eh di sana hindi mo na hinintay si Everyone."

"Eh feeling kasi ng ibang tao diyan na sila si Everyone kaya hinintay ko pa."

Shut up September or this will never end. Just apologize.

"Sorry hindi ko alam."

Ang sungit ng mamang to. Akala mo naman guapo. Pero in fairness September, Rafael Antonio is sobrang guapo. Never ko itong na meet before the wedding kasi nag aaral siya sa USA. His mother died giving birth daw sa kanya sabi ni Mommy. And he is studying Engineering sa Harvard. Bakit hindi business ang kinuha niya? What does he wanna do build buildings or houses? Sabagay builders din naman ang isang business nila. Or baka naman wala lang. Akala ko pa naman nice itong lalaking ito. Sa wedding ko lang siya nakita. Nung lumipat kami dito wala siya nasa lola daw niya siya. Ngayon lang siya dumating? Eh teka di ba sabi nila di kami kakain kung wala si everyone? Bakit ngayon ko lang to nakita?

"Teka, kung hindi pala tayo kakain ng wala si Everyone, bakit hindi kita nakikita sa dining table? Bakit ngayon ka lang kumain dito?"

"Hindi ako si Everyone, ikaw yun."

"Grrr nakakainis ka ha. Akala mo kasi anak ka ni Tito Dante magiging nice ako sa yo?"

"Eh di hguwag kang maging nice sa akin. Okay lang naman yun eh. You do not matter and I don't care."

"Don't care mo sarili mo. Hmp!"

"Di ba sa Poveda ka nag aaral? Bakit ganyan ka magsalita? Parang walang class."

"Whatever."

DANIEL LISSING as RAFAEL/ RAFA