Chapter 15 - First Displeasure Ever

"Heh! He acted like the Prime Minister of the whole world implying that I am an idiot.!?"

"Let's see... Even if he would call me.... Wait.. You... I shall turn your world upside down! ." Then she switched off her mobile phone with all her might.

She was right with her prediction. He rang her before his airbus took off from the ground only to be disappointed with the recorded voice 'to try his call later'.

He couldn't be distracted since the life of the passengers and their life is within his hands. He tried to forget the cold and distant treatment to him by his wife.

He discarded his negative thoughts and changed them to positive insight that upon his arrival at home the moment his flight would return to his country he would make her smile.

He was so excited when he landed to his destination to stay in a private room where he could have called Leonor once more to soothe her displeasure against his decision on monitoring his second child's gender preference.

"Alas, until now, her cell Phone was not switched on. This woman is trying my patience. It's up to you if you refuse listening to my lovable voice."

He undressed himself with his uniform and remained naked on the upper part of his body. Below, he just left his undergarment with his sweatpants covering it.

He slouched on the coach, switched on the television and started to press the button for the selection of a channel with a movie that matched his preference. After several selections, finally, he found one.

Watching movie from a television was his speedy means of sleeping. Aware of such effect, he programmed the remote in a sleep mode after an hour. However, he was already snoring softly after twenty minutes of watching.

He was peacefully in his slumber when he dreamt of his wife and him.

He was chasing his wife who was running away from him. No matter how fast he was, still he failed to catch up with her. She was faster than him that even though he had the incredible superpower to fly to hold and hug her tightly, he was still unable to stop her from sprinting away.

His dream seemed to be a television drama series that without any

explanation, he suddenly found out that

the setting was already along an endless seashore. When he didn't give up running after her, he realized that they

were already at the sea water, still a non-stop chasing after her was going on and on.

He was very happy that he was almost going to hold her hand, when all of a sudden the scenery changed. From the sea water, they were already climbing to a twin hills with soft porous sand that rolled him back down at its foot. No plants had grown on it, not even a single weed could be seen.

He was so helpless in catching her only to notice that his wife was already offering her outstretched arms to pull him on top of that hill.

He was so tired that he was out of breath, heavily panting. At that part of his dream he was awaken with inconvenience, feeling the heat all over his body only to find out that he forgot to switch on the air conditioner.

The coach was wet with his perspiration. He went to the water

dispenser to drink a lukewarm water before turning on the air conditioner.

His sleep was only five hours. Again he turned on the television, pressed the sleep mode in its remote controller after sixty minutes and focused his eyes to watch another movie. Without knowing the time, he was once more back to

sleep after fifteen minutes.

That time, no more dream disturbed his four hours of deep

sleep comfortably. When he woke up, he

called for a meal delivered in his room, took a bath while waiting for it.

The meal had exactly arrived when he had done taking a bath. After his meal, he changed to a fresh uniform, checked out from that hotel, flagged a cab to drive him to the airport.

While waiting for his time to take off

from that place going back to his base, he turned on his cell phone that he recharged in his hotel room. Several missed calls from his three children popped out on the screen. No call nor a

text message from his one and only

Leonor.

It displeased him that made his chest seemed to be in constriction due to disappointment that she didn't take her initiative to communicate with him.

He had to talk to her eldest child to

inform her mother about their house rule

not to prolong any disagreement nor dispute between one another. As members of their family, they, too, were under its jurisdiction with rules to abide.

They were not exempted to such house rule even though they were the parents of their household.

Time to fly, time to forget that he was upset. After that flight he could have begun to resolve his sulking feeling against his wife.

Before soaring, he texted his daughter that she had to talk to her mother about her violation against house rule number one.

He flew leading his crew being the PIO-Pilot in command, beside him was his FO-First Officer or Co-pilot. They had to bring their passenger safely to their

base.

Their non stop flight from New York City to the Philippines was only sixteen hours and forty four minutes. After the long hour of travel, they would at last be on land.

Sixteen hours and forty four minutes was four hours and forty four minutes more than a half day. At four at dawn early morning of the next date, he would be at home. He was fortunate that his arrival was Saturday morning and the next day was also his off duty. .

Upon his arrival, he never forgot to

greet his children which they reciprocated with a kiss on his right hand and a hug. He directly went to their dining room where he ate some fruits and drank warm water before going upstairs to their bed for him to sleep.

His wife seemed invisible to his sight as she did not bother to give him even a glance and continued setting the table for breakfast.

Before his eyes closed to sleep, his daughter went inside the masters' bedroom that he and his wife occupied.

"Dad, about your complaint against mommy, we'll do it in the afternoon since you're going to sleep."

"Have you informed her?"

"I would tell her after breakfast."

"Okay, thanks and lock the room."

His daughter left and descended downstairs to dine together with his mother and his two siblings.

During meal time, they asked their mother about their father's arrival. She told them pretentiously that he told her that he was going to sleep after eating some apples and bananas and drinking warm water.

Kelly and Alken were unaware of the cold War between their mother and their father.

Lizbeth was waiting for the two to leave the dining room. When they left

she told her mother to be in the family court room at three in the afternoon as there was a complaint against her.

Her mother was surprised as she did not expect her husband to make their eldest child the judge. She did not also expect that he would divulge their

speechless dispute, and non- verbal nor written communication.

"I'm into it, then."Her mother agreed confidently

Kenneth woke up after everybody had eaten their meal for their lunch. Through the intercom, he asked Alken to give him a glass of warm water. After drinking it, that was the time that he went to their bathroom for sanitation.

He didn't bother to wear his house clothes of a pant and a sando (a shirt for men without a sleeve.)

He went downstairs to eat his lunch with only a robe that clad him. He was done eating just on the dot when her daughter called him to be in the study room that served as a family's court room when an issue between and among the members had to settle a disagreement.

Their daughter was seated behind the table. Up front, Leonor was seated on the chair at the right side while Kenneth was seated on the chair at the left side. Both were facing each other.

"Good afternoon to both of you my dear parents whom I would like to be neutral between your Displeasure for each other. Honestly, I have never expected that a dispute between you would crop up."

Then she continued.

"A complaint from Kenneth Allen Lacandula against the misconduct of

Leonor Ayo Lacandula had reached to

my attention. The complainant would be the one to air out his grievances before the defense would answer him."

Now, Mr. Complainant, you may proceed with your accusation against the defendant."

While their daughter was still busy talking, he pretentiously scratch his chest by opening his robe's side edges(left and right) far apart, exposing his chest unclad up to the garter of his undergarment.

Before talking he looked at Leonor penetratingly that seemingly scanned her soul.

"I don't understand the cause of your coldness with me. First, you didn't wake me up with your kisses and hug. Next, you used to accompany me to be in our car, but you didn't. Third, you turned off your gadget for our communication. Fourth, you didn't initiate calling me upon reading the missed call that I rang for you. Finally, you disregarded my arrival at home as though I was an invisible human being."

"It seemed that you were fully prepared as you enumerated your complaints against me.? Were you ever aware that during our last conversation you treated me like I was an idiot? Served you right for not communicating with you."

"Leonor, I am not yet in my senility stage. I did not treat you like an idiot even once. Had I ever told you literally that you were an idiot?"

"Kenneth Allen, it was expressed impliedly not explicitly." She replied without looking at him.

"Can you repeat what I said that day to infer that I treated you like an idiot?"

"I'm sorry.. I cannot repeat what you've said that day. I forgot about it."

"Leonor... Since the day I've met you I never thought of you to be an idiot.

Because if you were, then you would not be falling in love with me."

Listening to his words, she turned

her eyes to Kenneth only to be affected by his exposed abs.

She bit her lower lips and revoked her eyes from his abs turning away her eye sight from him as she bent her head by looking down the floor.

She was embarrassed to herself and to her husband and she became anxious that their daughter might be able to detect the effect of his husband to her.

Quietness prevailed in the room.

Not one among them attempted to be the first to break the momentary silence.

It was suddenly broken when Lizbeth Mae giggled naughtily.

"Your actions were like teenagers."

Again, they remained mum to whatever was in their thoughts.

"Having been vested with the power of a judge, you may now listen to my judgement."

"Mrs. Leonor Ayo Lacandula, this court finds you Guilty"

"You are going to apologize from your husband, and find an effective means to appease his displeasure."

"Court, dismissed"

Lizbeth swiftly left the two alone for their untiring romance to make up for the three days that they did not communicate with each other.

Young as she was, she started learning from her parents that true love is forgiving.

"They're cute lovers. Our parents are cute lovers." It was only in the mind of Lizbeth Mae Ayo Lacandula