CHAPTER 2: ANDREA CELESTINE GOMEZ

It is past midnight. She is in her Queendom. In her room. In her lovely bed. Her favorite place. Her comfort zone.

Her room is 10 yards away from the house where her family lives. Her five siblings live with her parents in the servants quarter.

She is not a queen. She is not rich while her family is poor. She just live with a distance from them and the reason of it is something that she ain't proud of but couldn't do any thing..... for now.

The reasons are..... one, the servants quarter is just quiet enough to accomodate her parents and her young siblings and second reason is, her mother hates her.

Her room, Her Queendom..... is actually just a one single bed accommodation. It was a pile or a stock room that she earnestly cleaned so she can have a place to stay while her mother still couldn't afford to let her in the quarter.

Even this is a sad side of her life, ANDREA loves her mother so much.

It is only been a week when they arrived here in this place because of his father's new employer and this compound is her parents'new place to take care of.

Life is hard for Andrea and her family. All of them-the children, are studying. If not for being a City Scholar, she couldn't afford college.

She studies from 10 AM till 5:30 in the evening and works in a burger station from 9PM to 9AM just to have something to share for the family and buy her needs.

She swears to hold her diploma in March and to finish her course in spite of difficulties.

And the most effective way she thinks she can do to achieve this goal of hers is to never enter into a relationship until she finished college. She has seen alot. Alot of school friends and classmates who were hindered to finish their school because of being madly in love.

She promised not to be in the same fate. She will not allow her mother to humiliate her more and to prove that she is a good for nothing.

She owe it to all the hardships she encountered. She couldn't allow the opportunity to slip in her hands because of being foolishly in love.

Oh, but... She is not an ice queen. Rhea knows how to be in love. In fact, she has been in love for more than seven years now. In love with a man whom she never met but knows him only in his columns, write-ups and his television guesting in their local network.

And she is able to hug and kiss him through the scrapbook album that she made that contains all his pictures and news pages.

At first, she only admires him. But as years go by, her interest in him grows.One day, she just found herself whispering.....

"I wonder how it feels to be your girl friend.... oh surely it would be heaven! " she conceeded.