59 Gaile's End 7
"D-Dad..." Gaile seems like crying.
"Did you come to scold me?" She asked in resentment.
"How could you be so weak, Gaile?"
"Do you think committing suicide will solve everything?!" Mr. Fuented ignored his daughter's crying expression.
"Dad, I don't know what to do anymore." Gaile's voice trembled as she prevents her self from crying.
"I couldn't sleep, there are voices in my head, telling me how useless I am! I can hear little voices and I feel like I'm going insane!" Gaile started to cry.
"It is just your imagination Gaile! You're creating it by thinking of all your failures!" Mr. Fuente seems like he doesn't care about what Gaile felt.
"You're just like your mother!"
Gaile looked at her father, there is a pain in her eyes.
"Dad, why do you always compare me to my mother whenever I made a mistake?"
"Why do you always say bad things about my mother?"
"Why do you hate us?"
'Gaile never felt her father's love for her.
Yes!"
He may give her everything she wants, but not the love and support of a father.
"Why do you hate my mother?" Gaile asked again.
"Don't change the topic Gaile!" Mr. Fuente raised his voice.
"I am not trying to change it, dad!" Gaile raised her voice too.
"Ever since I was a child when mom is still alive, I've never seen her happy!"
"She always cries because you're treating her rudely and you're doing the same to me!"
"Can't you just say you are proud of me for all my achievements?"
"I did everything to make you proud but no matter how hard I try, It is still not enough for you."
"Dad, I tried to get Tim, I thought that making Tim as my husband will make you happy,
I even tried to set up his wife, just to get him. But I couldn't do anything! He love Kira and it is hard to defeat true love!"
"I couldn't accept it. I couldn't accept that no matter how successful I am on my career, you as my father never showed me that you are proud of me. And I couldn't accept that I could never make you proud of me because Tim has already chosen another woman!" Gaile has burst into tears.
Mr. Fuente was not able to say a word after hearing Gaile's word.
He just stood there and did not give a reaction.
"I'm tired of everything, dad," Gaile spoke again.
Mr. Fuente lowered his head and blinked his eyes a few times, he felt guilty.
He thought, is he that worst?
He has not been a good father!
" I'll just go outside." Mr. Fuente said and then he turns and walks out of the room.
He headed to the car park and have a stick of cigar.
He lighted the cigar and puffed a cloud of smoke.
Gaile's word flashed into his mind, " Do you hate my mother?"
Mr. Fuente fell in deep thought as he thinks of the past, a long time ago.
(flashback)
"Richard, I'm pregnant." Emily, Gaile's mother said while crying.
"What?!" The young man Richard blurted out with his eyes wide opened!
"Richard, you are the father of the baby in my womb," Emily said.
"No!" Richard denied.
"You are the only one who touched me, Richard!"
"Don't try to deny it!" Emily got furious.
"But Emily, you know that I have a fiancee!"
"And what will you do to me?!"
"You were the one who took my purity and made me pregnant! Are you just going to turn your back away from me and our unborn baby?" Emily asked in tears.
"It was not intentional Emily! We were both drunk that night!"
"But we still did it." Emily insisted.
Richard thought to abort the child but Emily won't agree.
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The news has reached Richard's fiancee who is at S Province.
" Ara! Ara, please! Listen to me!" Richard chases his fiancee Ara.
He held her hand and prevented her from walking away from him.
"Ara, let us not cancel our wedding!" Richard begged.
"And what will you do to that woman?!" Ara's voice raised as she pulls back her hand from Richard's grip.
The tears started to form in her eyes.
"Ara, I don't love her!" Richard replied.
"It is you, it is you whom I love you!"
"If you love me, you should've not cheated on me!" Ara said bitterly.
"Ara, it was not intentional! We were both drunk that night and we don't know what we were doing---" Richard was stunned when Ara's palm landed on his face!
"Stop those lies, Richard!" Ara said with her gritted teeth.
"Do you think I am stupid to believe your story?"
" It's not that you don't know what you were doing, it is because you let the temptation engulf you!" She added.
Her entire body is trembling due to anger.
"A-Ara..." Richard was out of words to say.
"You have a big responsibility to that woman and the baby in her womb!" Ara said.
"No! I am not marrying her!" Richard refused.
He held Ara's hand again.
"It's you who I want to marry," he said,
Ara pulled back her violently.
"We don't feel the same, Richard!" She said sternly.
She wiped her tears and looked at Richard with her blank expression.
Richard's heart shook!
It is the scariest expression of Ara!
"W-What do you mean?" He asked in a faint voice as she avoided Ara's gaze.
" I don't love you anymore!" Ara said without holding back.
"W-What?" Richard's world seems to collapse!
"I love someone else," Ara replied,( A/N: she sounds convincing, but Richard didn't know that Ara was just lying.)
"I don't believe you!" Richard refused to believe.
Ara looked at Richard straight to his eyes, " It is true." She said.
Richard felt like he lost his strength as he meets Ara's gaze.
"W-Who?" Richard is eager to know.
"Kino," Ara replied coldly.
"K-Kino?!" Richard repeated.
"Yes!" Ara said.
" Kino is always at my side at times when you are away. And I fell in love with him." She added.
Richard's shoulders dropped as he stepped back.
"W-Why!"
"Why does it have to be my best friend?!" Richard's voice is full of hatred!
He was betrayed by his best friend!
Mr. Fuente took a deep breath as he stopped thinking of the past.
There are two people he blamed for losing the woman he love!
They are Kino and Emily!
