Chapter 68: Chapter 68

I'm just HERE in the room lying down, I've been wanting to get up but it's tiring.

I sighed and forced myself to get up, I have to cook so we can eat. I looked at the time and it's 1:09 pm, that's why I'm hungry now because what time is it?

I came out of the room and saw Ate Kelly sitting while using her cell phone. I'm sure they don't plan to look for a job tomorrow, they're just playing games, wandering or maybe cellphones.

"Hey, Yana, I'm hungry, there's nothing to eat." he said suddenly but his eyes were still on the cellphone.

"You're hungry, you shouldn't have said anything."

It raised an eyebrow at me. "You're right there, why am I the one to say something?"

"The bones in your body are complete, Sister Kelly, so don't expect everything from me."

I said goodbye and cooked a dish, I still cooked vegetables. I really meant it so they could get used to eating it, I don't want you acting.

I looked at his phone, I suddenly thought of something. "Can you do online selling?" I asked and he looked at me in surprise.

"What?? I don't want to get tired!"

"What's the use of your cell phone? Just text your boyfriend or maybe a friend? To go on Facebook or maybe just play games? Sister Kelly, it's better if you sell online so that your cell phone is actually more useful."

"Why would I do that stupid thing!" He yelled at me and tortured me even more.

I scratched my ear before speaking. "It's not stupid Sister Kelly, it's not stupid to call it because we'll make money, instead of just texting your friends which is useless--"

"Don't talk to them like that! they're not worthless, they make me happy!!” His eyebrows meet now.

"Yeah, right! It's fun to have friends because they're with you in the fun, but the question is, are they with you in sadness too? Because from what I know, true friends are always there when you need them or whatever happens, whether it's sadness or happiness, they're always there by your side."

"When you need help are they there? Do those you call friends Ate Kelly feed you? are you sure they really think of you as a friend or maybe it's just in your mind that they are your friends but they really aren't."

"You're overdoing it Yana!"

"I'm just telling the truth Sister Kelly, I'm just now telling you to stay away from those people because they are not good for you. Don't wait for them to take advantage of you, don't let them make you plastic..."

It stood up and faced me. "Stop saying that!" His fist is now clenched while he looks at me now.

"You do not want to believe? just then I told you that I heard those people talking about you but you don't want to believe," I fixed myself and washed my hands.

"Then let's go, I'll prove to you that those are plastic." I pulled Ate Kelly out of the house.

"What! Where are you going to take me!?" He tried to remove my hand so I tightened my grip on his hand even more.

"Where you and your plastic friend often hang out." I answered him.

we rode a jeep and stopped at a basketball court, I saw in the distance what Ate was talking about as her friend.

We circled behind the women, we could hear their voices from far away. "Why didn't you take Kelly with you?" The man asked.

"Can you please not mention his name, I get irritated when I hear that."

"Yeah, right. Me too, every time he comes with us and when he sticks to me I hate it, you've seen their house, haven't you, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of bacteria there. Gosh, he's still our friend until now." The woman with long hair said boldly.

I glanced at Ate Kelly who was now staring at her friends.

"She's right, she's not fit to be our friend because we're rich, she's just poor and do you notice those clothes, bags and ect... they're all fake, right? So disgusting! Where did she even buy those things?"

"I have to admit that she's fun to be with, I like her attitude actually but my parents don't like her! My parents told me to stay away from Kelly because maybe she's only after me for money."

"You bastards." Ate Kelly's weak promise was heard.

"I agree with your parents, he's just poor so he probably looks like money. That's what poor people are like, right? Those who look like money."

They all laughed while Ate Kelly still looked at them together.

My blood suddenly warmed because of the last thing he said. Are we poor people who look like money? That's really how you think of us?! You're like Stephen, it's better to be together with the plastic and pretentious ones!

Ate Kelly walked and went in front of them, they looked at her with wide eyes.

"O-Oh, Kelly have you been here before?"

"Why are you here?"

"I just miss you, so I came here just in case you were here and I was right."

"We miss you too, so much..."

"Owws really? Hey, why did I hear that you're still glad you're not with me?" They were all silent.

"Hahah what are you talking about Kelly, why are we--ouchh!" The woman moaned when Ate Kelly slapped her.

"Why the f**k did you do that! Are you crazy Kelly?!!"

"How dare you slap he--" he didn't finish those words because he quickly slapped him on the cheek.

"I heard everything you were telling me, you plastic friends!!" It's rude to them, I'm just here on the side watching them.

"Friend? Hello? We're not friends Kelly, we never treated you as our friend! You totally heard what we were talking about and you know that we probably don't want you, so just leave and don't talk to us anymore." He said flatly and even flipped his hair back.

"You're the one who still has the guts to say something like that to me!! You even called me a fake?! what do you want us to reveal a secret here! I know your nose is fake Wendy!"

"Wait a minute, do you know that your Irish friend is transgender? And you, Lily, probably don't know that your boyfriend is cheating on you and Halley is cheating on you! Jason, if you can tell me that I look like money? Because you're rich and I'm poor, we can't be friends? Maybe you thought I didn't know you came from a poor family, you were just adopted, right?!" I'll see if they look worse at Ate Kelly after she said all that.

"What more do you want to hear about the secrets you keep from each other?" Sister's challenge.

"Okay fine, I admit that my nose is fake, but what's so bad about it? It was our money that was used here, is that you Kelly? You think I don't know your secret?" He grinned.

Secret? What kind of secret is that?

"I know that since you were a child, your father used to hurt you...it's the three of you, your mother and your brother. hmm, you were 10 years old when he raped you until you were 15 years old when you got pregnant but your father stabbed you in the stomach so you were caught, your mother who didn't know that your father was raping you every night and Your brother makes you kneel in salt while beating your feet, back. As for your mom who always teases you, chokes you, pfft... she hurts you for no reason? Okay, what the f**k is all I can say, your dad is crazy, isn't he? Good thing you didn't inherit or get infected from him."

I bit my lip at what I heard, I looked at Ate Kelly whose hand was shaking and I could see her tears.

T-Is that all true? Does their father do that to them? Sister Kelly's experiences are even more painful than mine...

"But I really laugh at the part where you don't have food for 3 days, you only drink water and then they feed you greasy food or something else. Do you know what you lack? when you love your father, because you have never experienced being loved by a father, that's why when your mom remarried, Alyana's dad, you loved him because he was so kind to you, he loved you both as if it were true It's just that he loves Alyana more because it's his real daughterthat...""T-That's enough!" Ate Kelly stopped but continued to speak."That's why you started to be jealous of your brother and your mother, when Alyana's father died, you thought it was his fault, so you took all your anger and annoyance on him, you blamed him for everything--"

"IT'S RIGHT!!! SHUT UP WENDY!!!" Ate shouted and covered her ears.

"Don't say a word when you're done! Is that all you know?! Let me tell you that's just a summary, you don't know anything about the other things we've been through before so shut up!! Do you think it's funny? if you were here in my situation I'm sure you wouldn't be able to handle it, I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of my sister and my mom because we all made it!"

I can't help but cry while looking at Ate with tears flowing, this is the first time I've seen her cry, this is the first time I've seen her like that.

"Leave it alone, let's not waste time with that bastard. Let's go!" they smiled and looked at me before leaving.

I slowly walked towards Ate Kelly and was about to hug her.

"W-Don't come near me!"

"A-Sister..."

"Is this what you want huh, A-Alyana?! Is this what you want to happen!" His tears just keep flowing, he wipes them away but his wet cheeks and eyes still don't disappear.

"It's okay for me to do plastic surgery, as long as I have someone to be with, as long as I have friends!"

I already told you that it's not called a friend! he shouldn't call them friends!

"Sister! Do you think you deserve that kind of friend?! Think about it! They are not the only people in this world, you will find many others there!" I promised and pulled his hand to help him stand, he immediately shook my hand.

"You won't know how I feel because you're not in my position Yana!"

We went home and Ate Kelly was just dumbfounded, I couldn't tell what she was thinking.

"Let's eat." I said.

"Hayst, vegetables again! Where did you and Kelly go? And why did she look like she was crying?! Did you do something to her?"

He really loves his twins.

I sighed before answering. "I did not do anything."

"Eat there, I'll just go to Ate Kelly's room." I stood up and went to his room.

I knocked on the door before entering.

"Get out of my room." He said as soon as I got inside. I didn't listen to him, I closed the door and stepped closer to his habit.

"Sister--"

"Don't talk to me Yana." He is bent now and his eyes are in a different direction.

"Sister Kelly, eat first."

"Told you to leave the room!!" He shouted at me.

"You might get sick if you don't eat." I held his hand and tried to make him stand up, but suddenly he shook my hand.

"What the hell! I feel so sorry for you, you should do that to me now, act like you're of no use to me! do the same as I used to do to you, slap me, twist me or maybe strangle me!! That's why Yana is abusing you because you're so kind to the point that it's okay to hurt you!"

I stopped because of the last thing he said. I knelt down to meet him.

"Now I've learned that if I fight you, I won't hit you, twist you or even strangle you if you didn't do anything to me, I won't hurt you for no reason Sister... do you know that it's possible if you three do what you did? mine? but don't worry because I won't do that because I know how sick you are, why would I do that to you if I myself know how hard you are."

I'll see if her tears are about to fall, but before they fall, she wipes them away.

"I really hate you Yana! b-Why are you like that! You're so kind that I feel so bad... I really liked you when we first met, I like you as my brother..."

"I just felt jealous every time I see you and your dad. the way he cares for you, I envy you because you have a father who loves you so much, who takes care of you, I just want to experience that. I know that I'm very selfish to the point of thinking if we should be the only ones to be loved by papa, that only the three of us should take care of him. I want to lose you because I feel that without you we are happy, it's like a whole family but because you are there and in other people's eyes, mom is just a second wife, they even say that mom just kidnapped your dad..."

"That's not true because my mom never steals from anyone, even though we're so bad, but she's not a thief."

"Who said mom is a thief?" I asked him seriously.

"When your mother died, two years passed before my mother and I met each other, so how did they say she was a usurper!"

"Aleng Wena, Jennifer and Aleng Rowena, they are the ones who said that mom is a thief, they always gossiped about my mom." Those are just next to our house.

Get ready for me tomorrow.

"Come on, let's eat. We're the only two who haven't eaten yet, don't tell me you don't want to, do you know that my stomach has been hurting for a while because of hunger." I finally pulled him out of the room and saw that they had just finished eating.

"Son, what happened? Are you sick?" Mom worriedly asked Ate and she just shook her head in response.

While we were eating, we heard a knock on the door...

"HEY KAREN WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PAY YOUR DEBT!! YOU HAVEN'T PAYED ME FOR WEEKS WOMAN!! GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSE AND FACE ME, DON'T HIDE FROM ME!!!!" It is still constantly knocking on our door and still screaming.

Mom walked to the door and opened it.

"I said next week I will pay! I don't have any money yet." Mom is talking to the girl.

"Who is that?" I asked Ate Kelly but she didn't even answer me and looked away.

I frowned. "I am asking you."

"Mama borrowed money from him and Mama gambled that money." Ate's answer made me shake my head. When will he stop gambling? Gambling will never do you any good!

"THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID LAST WEEK AND YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A JOB!! I DON'T KNOW WHAT I ATE AND I LENDED YOU MONEY!!"

no matter how much money is owed or no matter how many days, weeks, months, years it is not paid, what he is doing is not right. If he charges, he should fix his dealings with the borrower. Why? Pork owes you that kind of deal huh? Borrowers are people, not animals, so they should be treated right.

I drank the water before standing up, I approached them.

"You're so loud, we can't eat properly because of your loud voice."

He frowned and looked at me. "WELL WHO IS IT? your child?? AH, IS SHE YOUR FRIEND, OYY THAT'S YOUR MOM WHO BORROWED ME MONEY AND A MONTH AGO SHE STILL DIDN'T PAY ME EVEN A PESOS." I rummaged in my pocket and found something.

I held the old man's hand and placed the peso in his palm. "Oh, this peso, don't be mad at that, mom already paid something, but at least."

"Pfft..." noticed if Kuya Keil was holding back his laughter.

"YOU ARE FOOLING ME?!!!"

"Do I look like I'm cheating?"

I'm not a cheater because I'm the one being cheated.

He threw the peso hard on the floor. Just because it's a peso doesn't mean you can throw it away.

I don't even know how to appreciate mom's first payment tsk, thank you I paid pesos, you said even pesos right?! So, I'm still bad now, right?

"How much do you owe mom?" I asked him.

"Even if I tell you, you still won't be able to pay it now because you don't have any money!" I frowned.

"So, why are you charging now if you know we don't have any money?" It's a mess when I talk to him, my head hurts from him.

"I'm asking you how much my mom owes?" When I repeat.

"130k! Oh, what do you have money to pay now huh?!" I held my neck, seriously did mom just gamble with that much money? What's that? Just a gamble and it's all gone? The size is great!

I went into my room and took money from the bag, he gave it to me, so he must be saying that I look like money, right?!

When I went out, I gave the old man money, he stared at the money in surprise. "Oh, you can go now."

"Where did you get this money?"

"I stole it." They all looked at me in shock.

"Just kidding, of course you don't care where I got that from."

Mom sent the girl away and I sat down again, mom was about to enter her room...

"Say thank you." when I listen

He looked at me confused."What??"

"Don't you even have a thank you for me?

"Sa...sala...s-thanks."

Is it really that hard for you to say the word thank you? That's just one word.

"Did the handsome man give you money?"

"Ah, is it Stephen? yes, he gave me money. That's why I was kicked out because they say I'm flirtatious, a cheater that looks like money."

"Who's flirting? Is that you, Aly?" Kuya Keil's groin suddenly.

"He said that? I thought he wanted you...how much money did he give you?"

"Give you money?" When Kuya came in again but I ignored him.

"Why are you begging? If you're only begging to spend on useless things, I won't give it to you."

"I was going to borrow money from you, because I owe money to Lily and Wendy, I was just going to pay them back."

"Why would you borrow money from me when I can give it to you, right?" I will ask.

"10k to Lily then 13k to Wendy,"

hey, they are terrible if they borrow, it would be okay if it was 10 pesos and 13 pesos, but is it really a thousand? What do they think about money? Stone that can only be seen around?!

"I'm Aly, give me too." I looked at Kuya.

"For what?" I have a serious question.

"I will also pay my debt."

"Who are you?"

"50k." At the same time, he shook his head.

My jaw almost dropped, you owe me money and then you pay me back. It's like I planted corn and then you harvest it.

"The next time you take out a loan, you will have to pay with your own money because I will never give you money if it only goes to your debt, if you take a loan you should know how to pay." your language I'm really trying to be calm.

"Sh*t! That mosquito bit me!"

"You wash the plate now Brother Keil."

"Huh why?!"

"Is that still being asked? You're cheap, aren't you?" I said before getting up and going to the room.