Chapter 13

John's P.O.V.

I'm staring at Myra's pictures on my phone.

She is so beautiful, I’m really happy that she is having a selfies here on my cellphone. But then she found out the truth.

The truth is... I like her since I first saw her. I like everything about her, the reason why I don't entertain other women even though they are also beautiful.

Everything that happen on us was my plan.

When I first saw her on the school campus, I immediately fell in love with her and I feel something about her. I feel like she is a very unique woman, as if she is the only one that I can see and she is the woman I want to marry.

I waited for almost 3 years for her.

Even my college colleagues tease me that I'm gay because I don't have a girlfriend in my age. I don't care what they say.

I really waited for Myra to graduate and I deliberately dropped her on her demo to offer her a one night stand. Then everything go on my plan, I really want to get her pregnant. In that way she will come to me. Now it has happened.

The one I have been waiting for has come, I always watch her from far away. I saw her struggles in studying, I even stalk her while eating, walking home and hanging out with her friends. I still remember their graduation picture. I really want to tell her that she is so beautiful when she’s wearing make up.

I even followed her to the market at her Mom's store. I used to love her even more, Knowing how good daughter she is. How much she love her Mom and how much she love her Dad who passed away.

In my class, I didn't even bother to wake her up when she fell asleep in my class, Everytime she was sleeping I wanted to approach her and stare at her and I also wanted to hear her snoring.

No one knows I love Myra.

The important thing now. She’s now mine, only mine.

I went into my room and I heard her cellphone still ringing.

I approached Myra and saw her asleep, I turned off the ringing on her phone and laid it on my table.

"You are so beautiful, from any angle" I said and combed her hair with my fingers.

I think I’m really destined to be obsessed with her like this.

I bring my face closer to hers and gently kiss her lips.

"I miss your lips" I whispered.

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Myra's P.O.V

I woke up when I feel the coldness of the surroundings.

I looked at the aircon that was on and it was still 18 Celsius. I hugged myself in coldness.

I looked at my cellphone and check the time. It was 8 o’clock at night, I had a good sleep.

"I want to stand up!" I moaned angrily.

"I'll try, take it easy, just hold on baby!" I said and rubbed my stomach.

I got up and started walking slowly, Out of the room.

I saw John lying on the sofa, he had no upper clothes on and he was sound asleep. The electric fan was facing him.

I walked closer to him, I could see he was sweating profusely. He really endures staying here even it’s hot. This is his house but he's not the one who gets cold in the aircon.

I took his dress that rested on his stomach. I wiped his face wet with sweat.

Later he woke up, making my eyes widen.

"Myra? Why are you standing? I told you to stay!" He said angrily.

"I just checked you, why are you enduring the heat here?" I asked.

"You just used my room" John said.

"We can share, because it's your room, I actually really feel shy because you’re sacrificing too much. I don't want to see you having a hard time because of me, I feel guilty" I said.

"All right, I’ll sleep in the bedroom" John said and we went to the bedroom.

I was lying on the bed, I saw John take a blanket and lay it on the floor.

"John? You probably won’t do anything bad to me, won’t you? You can stay here beside me because this is your bed" I said and moved slightly for John to have space.

"Are you sure?" John asked and I nodded.

He stood up and lay beside me and I saw him closed his eyes.

"Are you going to sleep?" I asked.

"Isn’t it obvious? Sleep well, baby needs rest at night" John said.

I pouted, I can’t sleep.

"I have a question" I said.

"What?" John said while his eyes were closed.

"Where is your family?" I asked.

I just stared at John and waited for his answer.

"Why did you ask?" he asked back.

I lay down and turned my back on him. I thought he doesn’t like to share his thoughts.

"They're gone" he said so I faced him again.

I feel sadness in his words. I want to know him because he is also the father of my child.

His eyes are still closed and I could see his sharp nose and long eyelashes. How I wish I had a long natural eyelashes.

"What happened to your family?" I asked.

"Do you really want to know?" He asked me.

"Of course" I said, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling.

"Mom died because of abortion of my sibling" John said make me feel surprised.

"Abortion?" I asked surprised.

I grabbed my stomach.

"Actually I should have been dead too, My Mom also tried to kill me back then, but Dad stopped her" John said and he smiled.

"Why does your mother do that? Why does she not want to have children?" I asked.

"My mother is a beautiful woman, she is very sexy, her body is in perfect shape. She loves to participate in pageants and she is a model. That way Mom makes money. She met Dad at a pageant until they had something, they first love each other, until Mom gets pregnant with me" John narrate.

"What happened next?" I asked.

"Mom gain weight, her friends cursed her during her pregnancy because only my Mom got pregnant right away. Mom was afraid that she would look ugly so she would have aborted me but my Dad stopped my Mom, Mom stopped modeling until I was born" John said and turned to face me.

"Are you not yet sleepy?" John asked me, I shook in response of no.

"When I grew up, Mom made herself beautiful and sexy again, but she was no longer selected in the models because many parts of her body turned black because of me and stretch marks, when she got pregnant again with my sibling, we were surprised to see Mom laying on the floor and full of blood, We took her to the hospital, my sibling died because my Mom lost a lot of blood and it was just a fetus, then my Mom couldn't take it anymore, she also gave up, She died. On my time, long time ago there were not as many technologies in our time now so Mother did not survive" John sadly said.

"I’m serious, I don't want to have an abortion, I feel sorry for your brother who didn't have a chance to live, I don't want that to happen to our child” I said and caressed my stomach.

"Finally, you also realized, you know I experienced living alone, I was waken up in real life when I was in high school. Dad left me here in the Philippines and then he worked in U.S.A because there was a big offer that can help us living, I was alone in life for so many years, I experienced a lot, I was barricaded, I fought, I didn’t go to school, I was addicted to alcohol and cigarettes until I met a woman who inspired me, my first love, but it didn't take long and she also left me because of another man who was more flush than me, who’s living alone" He told me.

"She's too rude! What a gold digger, who is that? I want to know" I sai and frowned.

"Teresa, I haven't seen that woman for a few years, let it go because it’s already in the past. Then my Dad remarried in U.S.A, they had a daughter, Dad hid me from his wife because he said his wife would leave him when she found out that my father had another child. So, My Dad has no choice so he just sends me money for my studies" John said, I feel pity for him.

"You’ve been through a lot, it doesn't look like you did" I said.

I thought he’s just an ordinary man, I didn’t know that many bad memories happened to him.

"Really? he loves his family more than me, until I finished studying and worked, I never had a time to love again because I was busy making money for my life, thanks to Dad because I had things like this now because of him, but since my Father left, until now we have not seen each other again, he is happy with his family so we don’t have a communication. What’s important is now, I’ll have a child. Finally, I’ll have a family" he said and smiled.

That's the reason, he loves our child so much because this is the only family he will have because everyone has left him.

Poor John, he’s not really a cold hearted. Promise John, we will be your family, our baby will love you.

"Your story inspires me, and at the same time makes me sleepy" I said and yawned.

"Go to sleep" John said and touched my head and combed my hair using his fingers.

I closed my eyes and went to sleep.