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Jose hangs his hand on Weston's shoulder and they walk away from the place. “What did you do to make him apologize?” Jose asks. “Nothing serious. By the way, who are those guys?” “My buddies.” “Thought you said you don't have friends,” Weston says. “Yeah. They are more like a family. We Big Boys care for each other and take each other's backs.” “By smoking this early morning?” “Come on, man, we're just chilling out.” “Smoking is bad.” “You sound like a nudnik,” Jose mutters. Weston takes off Jose's hand from his shoulder. “Quit smoking, it isn't good for your health.” “Damn it, man. Is that why you're wearing a face mask? So you don't get any cigarette in your lungs?” Weston stares at Jose for some seconds. He wants, for the first time, to tell someone
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“Hey,” she says. The other two nods. Clearly hearing her from the covert earpieces.“Clear,” Weston says.She gets out of the car, walks to the gate. She presses the doorbell. The gate opens and a man comes out.“What do you want, ma'am?”Lorette gestures with her specially painted manicured red fingers for the man to come closer, as expected, the man looks around, a grin on his face.“Is your boss in?” Lorette asks.“Yes, but…” he gulps hard. “You're hot.” “What's your boss up to?” “Who knows? He got home late this morning, drunk as hell, best bet is he's still snoring on the bed.”Lorette smiles at him. The man kicks his lips. “You're my type,” the guy says.“You too. I kinda like people who are attracted to me.”“We could be of benefit to each other.”Lorette glances inside and frowns. “Won't your boss find out?” “Don't worry about that, babe
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Weston looks at the man on the ground. His coming here is totally useless if he can't get the man to sign the damn letter.If the man dies without this letter circulating, it is easy for the cult to get another leader. So, what the hell is the gain if the fire burns this son of a bitch? Weston tucks the paper in his pocket. He drags the man outside. The whole house might as well burn down, but this man isn't burning until he (Weston) gets the letter signed.Before Weston manages to drag the man to the sitting room, fire already engulfs the kitchen. Weston kicks the man severally until life is desperately begging to say a goodbye to him. It's getting do damn hot now.“Either you sign the letter or not you're going to die, the amount of time and pain only varies depending on your damn choice,” Weston says. “I'm not signing any fucking…fucking…letter…” “If not for your stupidity, come to think of it, of what use is your
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Weston glances at Lorette through the mirror. Their eyes meets and she looks away.“Lorette, let me help him apply it before he bleeds to death.” Santiago collects a plaster from her. All the way, Santiago complains about how Weston is driving like a snail, about how they will actually have to spend the whole year on the road before they gets back to the campus.“Who taught you how to drive?” Weston asks.“A game app,” Lorette says before Santiago can answer.“No. You're wrong. I got a first class driving tutor. I can show you the exclusive contract the man signed with me,” Santiago says. “The man did a very bad job,” Weston says. Santiago snorts. “I've been driving since I was ten and I have never had an accident.” Talking of accidents, they hear the screening of car tires. Next, a scream. Then total silence.All of a sudden, there are screams and running feet some distance to where their car is. <
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“Your bad for lying, dude. The CCTV recorded everything,” Weston says.“I'll see you in the cell. Probably…um…” he tilts his head sideways. “I should be able to bail you out.” He smiles at Weston, gets inside his car and drives off.Weston walks back to the car. He gets behind the wheel. “Guys, I'm going to jail.”“What?!” Santiago and Lorette shout at once.“What the fuck are you talking about?” Santiago asks.“The guy framed me up.”“You're not seriously trying to say you are going to jail when you know nothing—fuck!” Santiago grips the seat belt as Weston overtakes a car.“Lorette, can you help me find out where the woman and that girl are?” Weston asks.“What?”“Should I do it myself?” Weston asks.“No…but…you're kidding about going to jail, right? Just a call to the chief of police can clear all this mess.”“I actually want to see who the hell is going to come to arrest me. Also,
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“Well…” is this even necessary? “I managed to see the scene and asked around.”“Oh…normally, we don't treat patients without their guardians or family members' consent, but I took the risk before I'm also a human. You have to pay the bills first,” the doctor says. “About the woman, she should be transferred to the normal ward within the next one hour.” Weston lets out a breath he isn't aware he has been holding all these while. “How much is the bill?” Weston asks.“You can enquire at the reception.” The doctor walks over to the girl. He smiles at her, examines a few things before going out. Weston turns to the girl. “I'll be back.”“Did you call Dad?” “Um…don't worry, he'll be here soon.” Whatever patience Santiago and Lorette had been holding in since they stepped in the hospital explodes as they get out of the ward.“Do you know the girl?” Lorette asks.“No.”“Wait…this doesn't make sense
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Weston glances at the cop. He smirks. “You should get a shave, sir. This look doesn't suit a cop at all.”The cop stares at Weston. He seems like he's trying really hard to get a comeback from that head of his filled with crime cases. He nods and looks away.“Murderers who aren't remorseful are my biggest buddies. Will put you in your place soon,” he finally says.When they get to the station, the first thing Weston expects that they do is to interrogate him, but hell no, they push him inside a damn cell. “You're finally where you'll get humbled,” the cop who handcuffed him says. Weston looks around the cell. There is a guy lying on the ground. At first, Weston thinks the guy is asleep but the guy sits up. He doesn't take his eyes off Weston.“You're cool?” Weston mutters.“I sure am,” the guy says sarcastically.Weston clears his throat and sits on the ground. The floor feels rudely hard against his butt. Rea
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“That's bullshit.”“I have lost all hope of getting out of here. It's kinda cool here. There is really no discrimination in this place. Once you're here, everyone thinks you're a bad guy, so we're pretty much the same.”Weston can't help but be amused at the smile that falls across the guy's face. How a person can laugh in this guy's situation sure surprises him.“And the craziest part is that you get free food. It's bad, but since I really don't work for the food, I can't complain.”“They could have at least asked that you'd be bailed,” Weston says.“Yeah. They told me to call anyone I know to help me bring eight thousand dollars. Even…” the guy laughs. “Even if you start to sell my family beginning from my great-grandfather, we can't amount to that. Unfortunately, my mother is the only one available, so…” the guy laughs again.Weston bites hard on his lip. He must help this guy out of here. “I've been wanting to ask s
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Weston glances at the guy. The guy's eyes are already closing in sleep.“I think you should sleep,” Weston advises.“Huh? I'm not feeling sleepy.” But his eyes say differently.“You're sure you're not going to be bored?” He asks later.“I'm cool,” Weston says.The next seconds, the guy rests his head against the wall and is snoring.Weston looks at the guy for a few seconds. He smiles. He sighs. His head automatically switches back to his problem, why he's here in the first place. Throughout the night, he thinks about his plan and how to execute them as soon as the day breaks.He must have slept off but he has no idea. He opens his eyes to the shouts that seem like some argument. “If you're tired of your job, bloody resign!” A voice bellows.“I told you, sir, he's crazy. He'll end up dragging us all down if we don't do anything about him,” another person says.“How could yo
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“I have now,” Weston drops the picture frame on the sofa and carries Hannah in arms. “How is that? Did they disappear and come back?” She asks. “Daddy, how do people become people? I have not seen anyone jump down from the sky. Are there places where people go to pick babies? Daddy…answer me…” she whines as he carries her in the car. “Which of them should I answer first?” “When I grow up, can I become an actor? I will be on the screen. Will you watch my movies?” “Of course. Why won't I?” About two hours later when Weston drives to his parents house, Hannah is sleeping in the back seat probably tired of rambling for hours. He smiles as he parks the park and wakes her. “Have we arrived?” She asks, looking at him sleepily. Weston nods. “Big pop and lala are waiting to see you.” He helps her get out of the car and holds her hand. He's barely climbed the first step leading to the house when his mother rushes
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Later that evening, Weston is in the sitting room, watching Lorette and Hannah have one of their long funny conversations as they prepare for a visit to his parents. “When I grow older, I want to be a museum tour guide,” Hannah says. “Didn't you say you want to be a make-up artist some minutes ago?” Lorette asks as he helps her into her shoes. “I can do that as a side job. When I don't have clients in the shop, I'll quickly go to the museum,” Hannah says. “What about the online cooking tutorials? How are you going to have time for that?” “Oh…that? Daddy, I can shoot videos at midnight, right?” Weston frowns. “When are you going to sleep then?” “I can sleep for two hours.” “Two hours?” Weston asks in horror. “Yes. I am going to shoot the cooking tutorial videos for like two hours. Another two hours, I'll use it to shoot videos for my dance clas
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Three days later, Weston knocks at the door of a hospital room before going in. The patient on the bed raises his head. He stares at Weston then at Hannah whom Weston is holding.“You're okay?” Weston asks before realizing it's the dumbest question to ask a person on a hospital bed. “Yes…?” Jose answers. Weston can't really tell if Jose is trying to play dumb too or he doesn't know what he's saying. “Hannah, meet Jose, he's one of the best friends that daddy has,” Weston tells his daughter. “And, Jose, this is my daughter.” Jose's mouth parts slightly. He closes it a few seconds later and smiles. “She…she looks young.” Weston chuckles. “Young? What's a five year old supposed to look like? Old?” “I…sorry. I mean. Shit. You have a sure way of taking me by surprise.” “You think so?” Weston strides to Jose's bed. He drops the fruit basket in his hand on the table. “Last time I checked, you did some
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“Hey, Santiago,” his godfather says once there is an answer at the other end. “How are you, sir?”“I…I'm sorry.” His godfather shut his eyes. “What the fuck did you do again? I already told you I got Weston and Lorette covered. I have Weston's kid with me, I'll use her to—” “That's not it,” his father cuts in quickly. “I…um…I told Weston about Dylan.” For a lot of seconds, there is silence at the other end. “Where are you?” Santiago's voice is unbelievably too calm for the revelation. “Home, of course.” “Let's talk face to face.” Then the line goes off. The phone falls from his godfather's hand. He runs his hand through his grey hair. “You have a kid?” “Am I supposed to answer that?” “If I knew you had a kid, I'd have abducted her and used her against you. I had no idea at all.”What? Is he out of his mind? His godfather raises his head and looks at Weston. “Once San
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Weston can tell from the look on her face that there is something more. He waits for her to tell him. “I stumbled in on San and his father arguing one day, San was kind of telling his father to keep shut if he doesn't want his ass in the pool.” Weston waits. He's sure she isn't just telling him just for telling sake. There must be something more. He waits a while longer, forcing his damn brain not to think his daughter is five and she's with fucking Santiago. “He hates it when people snitch on him,” Lorette adds. “Kind of…he…” she lets out a deep breath. “Sorry. I just…I had no idea I'd be telling this to anyone.” For some seconds, she stops to get her emotions back together. “Even if San tells me something as little as what he ate last night that nobody knows about, he doesn't want me to tell anyone. When…I think we were sixteen when I first realized it. He told me he was fooling around with a girl and I kind of jokingly told the girl to tak
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Weston stops the car and runs his hand through his hair. “I begged you, apologized to you, did all sorts of things but you still didn't agree to get married to me, so why do you keep asking about your daughter?” “When did you apologize to me?” There is silence at the other end before Ivy starts to talk. “Okay, since you want to hear it, I'mma tell you. If there is anything I regret, it's having Hannah. I thought you would dump me for some other women later if I didn't have a child for you since you don't really seem all that ready to get married to me. I needed something to assure me you're not going anywhere and getting pregnant seemed like the best deal.” Weston bites hard on his lower lip. “You must have figured this out but I stopped using contraceptives without telling you. But I'm starting to realize it's all stupid now. If I knew Hannah was going to be a burden to me, I wouldn't have gotten pregna
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With rage, he dials Santiago's number. “What the fuck do you think you're doing?” He shouts. “Hey, you wanna make me deaf or something?” “Whatever shit you're up to, you should know better than to involve my daughter.” “What can you do?” “Where the hell are you?” “Not so easy, bro. Not so easy. I need to spend some time playing with Hannah and getting to know her before we come to an agreement of what to do. Till then, stay anxious.” With that, the line goes off. Weston dials the number again, it doesn't ring. Obviously, Santiago blocked him. He dials another number. “Find out where that fucking bastard is.” “Alright, sir.” He dials his father's number. “I need to find out where Santiago is.” “Okay. Is everything okay?” “No but I don't have the
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Weston comes out of his car. It's been more than thirty minutes since the cop pulled him over but he's not responded to him since then. The other cars he pulled over before Weston's are long gone and the cop doesn't seem like he has anything he's doing at the moment. “Excuse me,” Weston calls the cop’s attention. The cop glances at Weston. “I'll attend to you soon, I'm quite busy.” “If you're not going to come check whatever it is that you want to check, I might as well start going. I didn't do anything wrong in the first place.” “You didn't do anything wrong?” The cop scoffs. “Was that how you were supposed to put on your seatbelt? Was that how you were supposed to fasten it?!” Weston frowns. “What?” Is there a certain way to fasten seat belts? “Come with me,” the cop says, already walking to Weston's car. They get to the car and t
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“Daddy was smiling in the picture Abigail gave to me. And, daddy only smiles when he is with people he likes.” Santiago chuckles again. “How old are you?” “I am five years old. How old are you?” “Me? I'm the same age as your father.” “Daddy is…um…twenty five. You're twenty five?!” She asks in surprise.Santiago nods. “Yeah. Why?”“Daddy said monsters are old, like five hundred years old. And Father Richard said only monsters kill people. Does that mean you're a young monster?” The smile dies off Santiago's face. “I'm not a fucking monster.”“‘Fucking’? What does that mean? Do you have a dictionary? I'll look up the meaning.” “I mean, I'm not a monster. That's the meaning.” He glances at Hannah to see her staring at him. The glasses on her face feel like some gadget she's using to scan his thoughts. “What…” he clears his throat. “You can't see without your glasses?” She sighs. “It's a lon
