“HOW can you tame the heart of the person who is long been tame by you?” The innocent thought of the ten years old Sam. Asking his best friend and little target to be bullied by him, Cath. “Is that even a question?” Cath asks back wondering as she couldn’t understand his thoughts. “Just where have you heard such words? Movies, TV shows, or from some random person?” She asks, somewhat mocking him with those words and thoughts that Cath thinks to be too deep for their current age. “You know Sam, sometimes you are kind of silly.” She then teases which didn’t annoy Sam like he always does. But instead, he stands and opens his arms wide. Looking at the green meadow before turning back to her and declaring. “In the future, I will build a grand restaurant in this place and name it after your favorite flower. In that way, I can secretly tell everyone that it is meant for you.” SWEETLY remembered those words and the past. Cath couldn’t help smiling at the fact that Sam didn’t f
FRIEND. The word that keeps on repeating inside Cath’s mind. Making her frustrated for the reasons that she couldn’t accept and never will be. “Sir, ma’am. Your orders.” The food starts to arrive with the people around them with wide eyes and couldn’t believe what they are seeing. “I can finish this, all of it.” She firmly stood with what she had said with a bit of irritated and angered tone upon Sam’s expression that is doubting her. “You said it.” Sam just agrees, didn’t want to argue with her noticing her frustration that he had no idea why. “Friend.” She whispers to herself and just enough for her to hear. The same word that she couldn’t let go, of and is making her frustrated and irritated by Sam by the minute. “Come on Cath, get your head in the game.” Once more reminding herself of her little ritual at hand. That honestly amuses Sam while pretending that he is not hearing her say a thing. “Okay.” Cath t
FINALLY calming herself, but decided to do the thing that she initially came from in this place. Cath fixed her face and calm her heart. Went back to their table like nothing ever happened. “I’m sorry about that.” Noticing the change, but not the change that everyone will initially think. Sam ignored it for a while and was somehow glad that she isn’t intoxicated anymore. The best part was he made everyone shut their mouth to gossip about them. “Aren’t you hungry?” Cath’s question and offer for him to join her, made him smile yet, is doubting her attitude. For suddenly throwing her upset mood that he is glad about, but then, on the other hand, is kind of disappointing him. Knowing that is something wrong that he doesn’t like. “Cath---” He wanted to ask, he was supposed to ask her about what’s bothering her, yet he is cut off when Cath’s phone rings. “Lindsey?” A bit alarmed as Sam doesn’t want to be dis
“ONCE I’ll tell you, then it means that you cannot escape from me anymore.” A threat? But more like a confession. Two things are running immediately inside Cath’s mind after being pinned and cornered once more by Sam. “Just what do you think you are doing?” She is left with that thought and quickly asks Sam about it. While she is trying to make sense of his previous words she is screaming to herself that it wasn’t like what she is thinking about as a confession. “You sure become an expert in hiding and denying. Aren’t you, Cath?” Caught her red-handed, and Sam just brutally slap her with the fact that she is running away from the very start. She is tongue-tied by the moment and worse with her wild heart that is once more shaking all her revolve out the window. “De-denying? W-what! Just what are you talking about?” She stutters before stepping on with her right foot forward, yet Sam only sees it as her another way of being in denial. “Tsk!” Smirking where he finds her cute
“SO, you are the twins’ new nanny?”Erika asks, not to clarify that fact that she already knows but to warn her about her certain position in the family. “I am.”Cath casually replied with a smile and doesn’t mean any war or to start a heated argument. But with Erika’s disappointed tone and piss expression behind her fake smile. It is not that hard to notice and read that she is angry about what Monique just told her a while back. “The kids like you very much, and I do not see why?”Her critic, Erika started to critique. Trying to go under her skin, but Cath knew otherwise how to distance herself against the kind of entitled girlfriend like her.“Tell me Cath, how did you know Sam?”Intrigued but in truth is just buying some time after Sam and the twins left the two of them for a while and went to buy some food. Before they start to went all over the amusement park with Erika who literary insisted to tag along. “We are childhood friends.”Cath once more casually answer her question
“I hate him.”Monique murmurs crying while hiding behind a tree crouching. “Monique!”Cath calls out worried. Knew that the little girl is wrong for saying those words, but still, it is not the right way for Sam to scold his daughter like that. Especially since the twins have been so much for the past years. “Monique!”She calls out again with Cole holding her hand and looking around for his twin sister. Suddenly, Cole tug took her attention and pointed at the tree not that far from there. “She’s hiding there?”With a definite nod from the kid. Cath smiles and immediately run to the place and sees Monique crying with her head in between her knees. “Monique.”Coaching down to meet the eyes of the little girl, Monique raises her head crying even more upon seeing her. “I hate him, I hate daddy, Miss Cath. He doesn’t love me. He doesn’t love us.”Monique cries, a bit rebelling against Sam. That at some point made her see herself and her past with the little girl. Only that at that ti
“WILL you stay with us for this day?”Felt like her world is about to break, along with her heart which was somewhat being poked with a thousand like needle pain. Cath wanted to scream and protest. Scold herself and even more for what she is thinking and feeling right now. ‘COME ON CATH, FIX YOURSELF AND GET YOURSELF IN THE GAME!’The multiple nth time, she convinces herself. But then she couldn’t help but felt betrayed by what she is seeing in front of her. “Look! So sweet.”Gossip and compliments that she didn’t hear from the restaurant. “Aren’t they two perfects together.”She tries to ignore it. Cath tried to and her best, but she can’t. Looking at the two of them and even though how much she wanted to come in between, she can’t as she had no right to do so. “It’s okay Miss Cath, for us you are still the perfect one for daddy.”Monique consoles her with Cole on the side nodding in agreement. Where she is a bit taken aback by Monique’s calm behavior for the moment even though
“HONESTLY CATH.”Words that raise some red flags inside Cath’s mind. Sam’s tone and look scare her differently knowing that he will about to ask her the inevitable that she doesn’t want to hear from him. Right now, or ever. “Tell me the truth,”“I don’t think that we should discuss this thing right now. The twins are missing and they should be our priority right now.”She immediately cut his words and insisted for the reason that Sam wouldn’t have right now. “Are you running away from me?”Sam finally asks. The thoughts that have been running inside his mind the moment that Cath claims that he and Erika are a perfect match. A lie that he knew and wasn’t even that hard to read from Cath’s expression.“Running away? From who?” In a bit of a panic, Cath composes herself and asks the question back. “You? Tsk! Why would I even do that and even think of it?”She firmly stands on her words, but she could hardly look back at Sam’s eyes. Her lies weren’t that hard for Sam to notice.“Then,