SCENE: 18

"So when did y'all find out about the disease that Lola has right now?" I asked when I felt the silence we all had in the middle of our dinner.

I'm not showing disrespect but I just want to have something to talk about since I wasn't in here the day that they talked about and planned for it. Shane didn't inform me though, nor called me for that exclusive talk.

No one answered as I just smiled to myself for receiving nothing from them after asking a very sensible question. Did I just really ask something that made them upset and insulted?

"Marico…" Ramon called as he held my hand.

"Hmm?" I asked and glanced at him before facing my mom who's giving me a sign not to talk about it again.

What? What's the point of having dinner right now and didn't talking about issues in this family or some emergency of our beloved grandmother. They should inform me also, I'm an illegitimate granddaughter, and I deserve to know what was going on in this family too.

Even though I don't care about this family situation. I want peace and that peace is leaving them behind and not wanting to have or receive gifts from them. Except for my parents who do have the right to have and support me.

Although I don't need their help that much, because I have work and I want to help them instead of helping me. Thriving is good when it is all because of your parents and their hard work, but it is more good and exciting when you make a living while living.

"Lola, how's your feeling right now?" I asked once again and focused on my plate without glancing at them.

I know that they are already staring at me but who cares, I was just asking how Lola's feeling right now. Maybe she needs something or wants something that we can offer and we want to help too, I want to help too.

"Marico I think—,"

"I'm fine Marico, how about you? How's your day my little princess?"

I was shocked when she finally recognized me. She even remembered my full name and even asked me about my day right now. Well, I must say that this day is so hectic and people are giving me a headache.

"Oh, Lola I'm all good and the day of mine? HAHAHA," I uttered and laughed a bit before speaking again." Well, my day isn't that good, because something happened but I could still say it's fine." I fakely smile at her and put back my eyes on my plate.

I said I'm t too close to her because I didn't grow up in her house nor lived in her world. Dad's mother is more the best for me because she didn't spoil me of everything but told me to be patient and keep on waiting for something to come for me. Because waiting is the first and most important process people should do when life sucks and is undecided yet.

Tita Beth is looking at me right now, now the big cat war is about to start again and I'm so sure I won't go home without winning the throne. She thinks she can beat me after insulting my parents in front of the crowd that hates her much because of it.

She's the reason why my parents were also at the top and she's always down just because of her attitude. It also affects her own family, right it really affects her family and because of that, she doesn't even know that her husband is having an affair with someone.

But then, I can't blame my uncle for having an affair with someone if this is the kind of woman she married. Maybe this is his way of escaping from his wife who's full of toxicity and a lot of insecurities in the body.

I know my uncle just wants to have a better and good family just like e. But he couldn't experience that because he can't divorce his wife to choose the other woman she had an affair with right now. Everything he'd done for their life as a married couple is all because of his wife, but I must not lie that uncle should distance himself from that other woman.

Things between his family, family is complicated but he still managed to be good to his wife and the family. I know he became a puppet of his and my grandmother, even so, he still treats every one-off us as his family.

He opened up his problems to me because I was a trusted person to him. Uncle even told me about his beautiful daughter who works with me in the same industry with the same manager. But unlike her daughter,  I'm a veteran and she's only new to this industry which made me excited to train her too well.

A very young and naive girl who comes out and sees how complicated her life is because of her father who's a married man despite that she didn't drag that issue and make money by just asking his father for money to support their living. Instead, she went out of their home and showed everyone what she's earned to herself that she can show to the crowd.

The beauty she had is unique and rare, that's why I choose her to represent the flag of our industry and the management rather. I didn't expect to find out that she was the daughter of my uncle, a daughter of sin but still a good and remarkable thing that happened to my uncle's life.

I must say she has the best father, almost the best father but because he's married to my auntie Beth. He cannot support the child he had and the result of the love he got for that other woman he mentioned to me earlier.

"Ah, by the way. When will the wedding be?" I asked and changed the topic.