Chapter 1 : Run Away

It was dark at night, Rosa looked at her smart phone nervously. She had been planned for almost half a year for this moment but when the moment had arrive she can't stopped the pain in her heart. Her white face was pale, her eyes was red and her right forehead was swollen. She didn't care about it, she had been used by it. Her phone buzzing and immediately she answer the phone.

"Is he come back tonight?" a female voice come from her phone.

"No. He hasn't. Laila, I already packed my bag. When will you arrive?"

"Are you sure about this?" Laila asked with worried.

Rosa snort. "You want me to have a mental breakdown? I promise my mother that I will live happily. This the only way will make me happy again." She had a smile in her face but her tears are about to well up. She grit her teeth to hold her tears from falling.

"I will arrive another 15 minutes." Laila close her phone.

Rosa inhale deeply and slowly walk towards other rooms, there were a small bed and a baby crib in the room. She sit on the small bed and look at the boy who was deeply asleep. The little boy is 4 years old, his face was very similar with Rosa. Even her black shining hair is same as her. She look at his peaceful face with a lot of complicated feeling, slowly she kiss his forehead gently.

"Raul… Raul, wake up." Rosa whispered to his ears.

Her little boy stretch his arms and pull a pillow nearby to bury his face.

"Wake up Raul. Don't you want to meet and play with Lily today?" she said with a low voice.

The boy quickly sit up and he blink many times to open his sleepy eyes. "Lily is coming today?"

Rosa pat his head with a smile. "Lily mother will come and pick us out and you can play with Lily. Come here lets change your cloths."

Obediently, he let her mother changed his cloth. When her mother change her little sister cloths on the baby crib, he quickly pack his toys to his begs. After a few minutes, a red SUV car arrive in front of her villa.

"Raul!" A cute little girl voice shout from the car.

Raul hug his mother right legs, feeling shy. Rosa pat her son head with a smile. Two door was open, Laila come out from the car and look at Rosa with a tears in her eyes. She saw Rosa swollen forehead and can't help to hug her pity friend, squashing a little baby in the middle. A man come out from the driver seat, he smile a little to Rosa and come forward.

"Let me help you." He take her luggage and put into their car.

Laila wipe her tears and try to smile. "Rosa, whatever you want to do, I will support you. Remember, I always be there for you."

Rosa smile. "I know. That's why I ask you to help me now."

It was still dark, early in the morning, the car had park at the entrance of the airport. Rosa had send an email to Laila, and told a lot of things that her son can eat and can't eat, she list every detail of her son routine ad favorite food. She also list how to coax him and how to make him happy.

She look at her son sleeping beside her. He has a robot in his arms, hug it tightly. She look at his face, imprint it in her head. Slowly she lean to his son and kiss on his head without wanting to let go. A tears fall heavily, her friend who next to her pat her shoulder.

"I promise… I will take care of him." A chocked voice come from her friend.

Rosa lift her head and hug her friend tightly. She buckle up her baby carrier on her neck and quickly she get out from the car.

"Thank you, Juan. Thank you, Laila." Rosa take out an envelope from her baby backpack, pull her diamond ring from her finger without any feeling and put inside of the envelope. "Give this to David. I will contact you when I arrive at ABC country."

Before she left, she look at her son for the last time. Afraid that she will change her mind, she close her eyes and turns herself towards the airport. With heavy step, she hug her baby tightly in her arms, her tears fall without stopping. Her baby who was sleeping before had woke up, as understand her mother feeling, the baby didn't cry but her little hand hold Rosa pinky finger tightly, where Rosa had put her hand on the baby head.

After 12 hours in the airplane, finally it landed safely. The little chubby baby in her arms was very obedient. It cry only when she wants to eat and change her diapers. It was hot in the evening at X country. Before she turn on her smart phone, a sound not far from her calling her name. Rosa can't hold her smile and laugh when she saw her sister was running towards her.

"Rosa!" A big warm arm hug her tightly making her baby cry, annoyed being squeezed in the middle.

Rosa pat her little baby back. Rosa look at a beautiful middle age woman in front of her. She is her half-sister. When her sister found her, she was 15 years old, her sister wanted her to live with her in this country but because it too sudden, she refused. She hated her sister at first because her father had abandon her and her mother at previous country, XYZ country. Then she hate her father more when she get to know that her father had married 5 woman and have a lot of other children.

Since then, she swear to herself that she will not marry like her father who had abandon his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, she had swayed by heated love in her young age and married a wrong man. She can't help to blame her mother for giving a jinx to her own daughter. However, her mother die last year, she can't hate her and blame her anymore.

"What is your plan?" Rosa sister ask while slurping a cup of coffee. They had arrived at her apartment, her baby was sleeping in the room that her sister had provide for her.

They both sit in the dining room. "I planned to live here and I will apply some job, so you should not worry about me." Rosa is independent girl. Since she only live with her mother before and they are poor, Rosa had been used to work since young. She had many part time job before and she likes it. She likes to gain experience, meet new friends and learn many other things. The important is she love making money with her own hard work.

"How about your daughter?"

Rosa bite her lower lips. "I will manage it."

"Rosa, I know you hate it if I say I will help you find a job." She sigh "My husband has some headache with some business, when I heard it, I can only think of you."

"Olivia…" Rosa creased her forehead.

"I know you hate it and think I made it up or something. However, this is truth, you can ask my husband about it. It is just a small business, it was own by my husband friend. However, he is a lazy bum and the business never had a profit for these 2 years. My husband don't know how to stop invest from it as the owner is his friend. I believe, you can help it. It really need your help."

"Its more complicated. I will be very busy to manage it. How can I take care of my daughter than?"

"You daughter is very obedient baby. She can follow you to work and you no need to worry about it. I also know some aunts' there that will gladly take care of your baby."

Suddenly a cry sound come from the guest room. Rosa quickly stand up, before she could go to the room, her sister stop her.

"Think about it, ok? You can start your new life on that place. I have a good feeling on it." She persuade Rosa.

Rosa left her sister and run towards the room. Her baby was crying on the bed, her chubby face searching for her mother in the empty bed. Quickly Rosa jump to the bed and kiss her baby.

"I'm here. Don't cry…"

The baby stop crying and rolls to her body. Rosa wipe her baby tears and play with her chubby cheek. Her baby has a white skin just like her but her brown light eyes and brown hair was similar to her husband. She hate it. She hate it more when she found out she had a 2 month baby on her stomach and her husband claimed that the baby wasn't his. They had been fight that year and her husband rarely come home so his husband suspect her to have an affair. She ask for a divorce but he never agree to it. Left her in the dark for a months, the baby come out and confirm it was his daughter, he promise her that he will change and love her like before. However, he never change and they never stop fighting.

She had been stayed by him because of her son. He was still a baby when she found out her husband cheating on her after a year of her first marriage anniversary, he always promise to change but never did. For not wanting her son to be abandon like she and her mother before, she stayed with him, praying that his husband will change and love her only.

Rosa hug her baby tightly. "Raul, I'm sorry for leaving you… I'm sorry." A tears fall from her eyes when she remember her son.