Flee Away

"Again Zav," her mother reminded.

"Yes mom. I told you Zav. And as I have always told you Zav," quickly she said.

The lines were already marked in her mind and she had already memorized it. She quickly took place before her mother would say it again.

It isn't that she just want to restrained her mom from talking. She deliberately preceded her mother what to say next but just as a joke. Her decision was final. She left Hacienda Mondragon. And going back to Manila was already her plan that Miguel did not know. Just the morning after their first night as a couple.

"Ma'am how can I explain this to Don Rafael?"

"What you're going to tell him clearly is that you don't know. And only my mommy was on board, you are with on the travel."

Zaviah's decision was closed. She will never change it. The driver wanted to appeal but it did nothing. They had already left Hacienda Mondragon when they noticed that Zaviah was also on board. It's still early in the morning. And surely in the morning at sunrise they will on EDSA road. Her mother sighed.

"Is this what you planned before you even got married. Am I right?" her mother asked.

"You will know everything about this some other day."

She answered sparingly to her mother. Not to let her mother know her whole plan or else her mother herself would call to Don Rafael to take her back to the Hacienda. That's why everything must be left unsaid to her mother until to the time it can be open to share. She had no problem with her grandmother.

"Are you really decided? It can't be changed? When do you plan to go abroad?" Her grandmother Trinidad asked sadly.

She remembered her grandmother asking her. It felt sad but supported what she wanted to do. Everything was ready for her departure. Everything including money that her grandmother provided.

"Let me just ask. How did you get out of the room without your husband noticing?" her mother asked.

It can't believe what her beloved Zaviah was doing. Yet it can do nothing. They will travel for about two hours when they arrives to their house she will surely ask all about it what is happening.

"What is it mom?"

"Oh! Zav. Is that your spouse that you are thinking of. Have you ever thought of the right thing to do now. I'm asking you, how did you go out of the room without your husband noticing that you are leaving?"

" It is not Miguel but grandmother Trinidad. And to answer you asking how did I got out of the room. I just got out while he was sound asleep."

"You mean your grandmother Trinidad knows this?"

"Yes mom."

Her mother couldn't even ask another question again. It has come to her mind that there is no direct reason she could get from Zaviah. Then her mother closed its eyes to get even just a nap, while she stared at the vast woods along the path. The woods she never forgets. She leaned back as her gaze faded and thought.

"You just thought he loved you. But be fooled. It's up to you."

Miguel was the man that Celestina was referring to. When he spoke to her in a department before the day of her and Miguel's wedding.

"I don't care if I'll be fool around. It's none of your business. Are you worried too much? Yeah, I know Miguel will be the legal owner of Rancho Villaverde after we get married. And the Mondragons will also gradually reclaim part of the land you claimed. You are a savage and cunning. I will deliberately marry Miguel to end your happy days. I know you can't hurt me as long as the man who will be sooner my husband is around.

"Zav! Miguel is calling. What will I do with his call?"

She returned to the right trance. Her presence of mind got back to real. As her mom patted her and said that her husband is calling. Her mother doesn't know whether to answer or let the phone ringing.

"Just ignore it mom."

"No Zav. Maybe now he can't talk to me. He can't ask me why and where you are. But your husband will make a way."

"He has nothing to do if you won't answer him. Just tell him you don't know where I am."

Her mother got confused. But it really has nothing to do with the her decision.

"O--kay. Huuh!"

Unintentionally her mother was letting out a faint sigh. Silence intervened between her mother and the phone stopped ringing. It was a ten times missed calls saved on call logs.

The sun is about to rise.

She sees it rising from the East as when he looked out the window. They are about to arrive. She is thinking what she must need to when they come to their house. Take a shower and leave right away. She was sure that her husband would follow her in a few hours so she had to hurry. She has not yet told his mother. Again it would surprise her mother and get worry about where she is going. Her mind was so busy with so many worries she fell asleep without knowing it.

"Zav- Zav. We're here."

Her mother waking her up and even tapped her on the shoulder. She was still unconscious but also woke up in a trance as she remembered everything. She got out of the car immediately. And followed the mother who had already gone to the car compartment. She hurriedly took their things to get the driver stuck as well. But her mother offered the driver to eat breakfast. So she didn't say anything. She will just help her mother to cook breakfast right away and so that the driver can leave after eating.

She had already carried belongings inside to their house. In the living room they first left the driver and they both went to the kitchen.