Chap 19

It's still early in the morning when a maid came and woke her up, saying she need to prepare for the charity event. When other women met her, they all wanted her to meet their sons but she said she's already taken and pregnant too, that gains a glare from her mother. But she just ignored it.

"Mare, good news." A middle age woman came rushing at their stall. She was helping on fixing the stocks for the charity event in their stall.

"What is it?" Her mom asked.

"The president of Golden Hands Foundation in Australia came today. She just wanted to visit and see how the charity works here."

"The president of the foundation was the one here? That's good news. We always invite her to come into our event but she sent representative as always. What change her mind this time?"

"I think she's also looking for a foundation here to help. Maybe we can give her the proposal on building a school in the rural areas that doesn't have a school yet."

Her mom was voted as the head, of the 'Kabataan' Foundation in their province and she heard about the propaganda on building school to rural areas that doesn't have one yet.

"She's here, mare." The woman nudges her mom and they look at the crowd that was coming near them. A sophisticated middle age woman came to their stall. After smiling and shaking hands with other people who greeted her. She was like running for presidency.

"Hi, you must be Mrs. Ofella Alcaraz?" She finally met her mom.

"Yes, I am."

"I'm Melinda, nice to meet you. I've read the proposal that you send in our foundation, about financing on building school not just here but in other part of the country? We were actually planning on extending our foundation here, so we thought that maybe joining with your foundation is our first step."

"Really? Thank you. It will be a big help for us." Her mom said gladly.

"Yeah, my son actually asked me to decide about it. He told me to extend our foundation here. When he decided to stay in this country, he said that there are lots of children who wanted to study but can't because of financial problem or the school is too far from where they live. I didn't listen to him at first, but when I saw your proposal, I changed my mind."

"Your son is staying here in the Philippines?"

"Yes. He fell in love with some place here so he decided to stay here for good. And I think he's planning to marry a Filipina too. Can't blame him though, he still has a blood of a Filipino anyway. I actually ask him to come today, maybe he's just a bit late." She said as she wandered her eyes around and landed on her so she gave a coy smile on her.

"Oh, this is my daughter, Frey. She sometimes helped me in our charity work." Her mom introduced her.

"You look familiar." The woman said to her but before she could say something, someone just came in.

"Mom!" All of the people turn to see who shouted. That made her and her mom glances at each other.

"Son!" Melinda gladly hugged the guy she calk 'son'. "Wait, what happened to you? You look so... red?" He never got tan or something because when he got too much UV, he just got red.

"Sunrise." He just answered.

He doesn't have a face hair anymore, but his hair was still long and his tattoos are still visible. Then he wandered his eyes around like looking for someone, and then it landed on her.

She just smiled at him. He just smiled at Kevin.

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