He didn’t show up for five years to visit her. She tried to call him but his phone is not available. How can he show up now as nothing happened? She had to act and think smart. She can’t be fooled by anyone anymore.
“No, thanks. I’m good.” She said and ran away from him.
“Wait, Lucy, come back! Let me explain! I’m sorry!” Gregory called her but she didn’t look back.
Everything is clear to her now. Even the police reported them about her. How cruel the world is.
The only place she needed to go is the place in Tagaytay where she and Gale went to let go of her burdens. Maybe he was right. She wasn’t ready to come back to the real world if she holds back everything. If she had heartaches, and deep scars inside. To be prepared for the war she must face alone, she must leave all this remorse and guilt behind.
“Why! Why me? Why of all people? Ahhh!!” She keeps yelling in the nonentity.
While she’s in the middle of cursing everyone and herself, a familiar voice called her attention to stop.
“I thought you forget this place!” The man said while ambling closer towards her.
Lucy slowly turned her head behind and she was right. She knew that sweet and calm voice of him.
“Gale?” She mumbled and a smile cross Gale’s face.
“I’m sorry I miss going here for five years. I just got back from the U. S” that’s when Lucy realizes that he was ignorant of what happened to her back then.
two months later…
“Daddy, I want ice cream!” Dilan set a puppy eyes at his father for his favorite dessert.
They just got home at the airport. It’s been five years since they visit the Philippines. Eloisa decided to build a new building in Makati while Kent will be taking over her family’s company, The Kings and Queens Hotel.
Eloisa hides from Kent about what happened to Lucy. He has no idea that she was put in jail and sentenced to five years because of him.
“Just wait baby, I’ll call your mommy to buy it for you. Wait here, okay?” Kent put his son in the lobby area and look for Eloisa.
While Lucy was busy looking for her ingredients for the new dessert she started to make, she heard someone’s crying. It’s a little boy wearing a stripe polo t-shirt with jumper pants. His face looks familiar. He resembles her ex-lover Kent Oliver Stone.
“Hey, why are you crying? Where are your parents? Are you lost?” She came closer to asked the little boy.
Dilan shook his head.
“I’m not lost. I want ice cream!” He answered her.
Lucy holds his hands and painted a sweet smile at the child.
” May I know your name? If you tell me, I will buy you ice cream!” She happily promises the little boy.
Dilan’s eyes sparkled to her little surprise.
“My name is Dilan. You’re so kind, miss pretty!” He looks so cute when he smiled just like Kent but Lucy was disappointed to know his name. She thought he was Austin.
Yeah, five years passed and whoever she saw a five-year-old boy, they reminded her about her son.
“Oh, thank you. Wait here, okay?” She said and the child nods his head.
Lucy came back with a mango-flavored ice cream in her hands. She gracefully gives it to Dilan.
“Here. Just wait for your mom and dad okay. Don’t cry–” she stops when Dilan called his daddy and mommy.
“Daddy! Mommy!” He shouted and Lucy slowly got up to see Dilan’s parents.
“Kent? Eloisa?” She can’t believe who’s she’s seeing right in front of her.
She quickly looks back to see Dilan again.
“If he was their son, meaning he was Austin, my son? But he was Dilan. Where is my son Austin?” Lucy asked herself.
She hurriedly wears her eyeglasses and took her groceries with her. She hid behind the candies stall.
“Dilan, I’m so sorry you waited so long. Here is–” Kent noticed that his son was holding an ice cream. His face is covered with ice cream too.
Eloisa noticed it too. She came closer to ask her son who offered ice cream to him.
“Baby, who bought that to you?” She asked Dilan.
Dilan looked around to find the beautiful stranger he had a chit-chat with a while ago but she suddenly disappears like a ghost.
“She’s here but ran off when I called you daddy. She’s kind to me. She told me to stop crying so that she will buy me ice cream!”, he said and the couple just stared at each other.
Eloisa took Dilan and pulled him beside her.
“Let’s go. Let’s talk later.” She said and drag him inside the car.
Kent got mad and took Dilan from his wife.
“He’s your son. Don’t treat him like anyone!” He yelled at her inside the car.