୨ৎ Chapter 1: Say ‘Cheese’ !

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I'm Leiya, the middle child of my family.

A little recap about my life is just that I'm an 11th grade student and my family isn't really in a great situation like any other families you'd see in social media or places.

Sure they're quite really known for my mom's amazing skills in teaching and my dad for having a small business but really "delicious" food.

They'd usually have a great time and then 5-7 minutes later my mom would crashout and have a breakdown because my dad doesn't like giving free things to mom when he literally has his own money from his business and my mom would pay him just to buy dinner ( I know, it's horrible. )

When I was in 10th grade and was gonna graduate just 3 days ahead, my mom and dad had an argument again. Interesting reason was because my dad stole thousands of hard-worked money from mom just to have an entire restaurant just across our house. Which was insanely shocking or just stupid.

And as for that, my mom left and filed a divorce. Of course she did, mom took my little brother while I was stuck with my dad.

We argued too because my mom and I were close and I wanted her to stay. I couldn't do anything for mom but to stand up for her but classic dad would have me grounded and beat me up like a squashed tomato.

I hated dad too. So much that I cried with anger as I yelled at my dad.

Angry tears rolled down my cheeks.

"PA, I CAN'T STAND YOU ANYMORE. MY SISTER FIRST AND NOW MOM???!! YOU'RE FUCKING INSANE!! YOU JUST STEAL MONEY FROM MOM JUST TO FREAKING BUILD A RESTAURANT WHEN YOU COULDN'T EVEN TREAT US AT LEAST BREAKFAST, LUNCH OR DINNER?!"

My dad didn't utter a word and just stayed silent.

His eyes were shooting invisible bullets at me, but I refused to let myself down and feel guilty.

I was furious at him.

So I stormed out of the house, stayed at my Lola's (Grandma) house, my cousin lived there too and I opened up to them. Lola offered me to stay there for a while until things will get better soon.

Spoiler Alert, it did not get better.

My Lola attended my graduation after that day and my cousin was happy for me. At least I had two relatives that still cared.

After my graduation my lola tried calling mom many times but she wouldn't answer. And that was when I last heard her voice. Just her yelling and crying at the house, then it was her last straw.

Dad wasn't at the house either when I went back to get my other things. Guess he was busy with his now "big-bussiness" or whatever.

And so, my Lola called her daughter which was my Tita (aunt) at Manila to let us stay at her place because another funny fact was dad constantly asks Lola for money and they were furious at him.

My tita agreed as always since she was the kind one. Let's call her Tita Kiki. Lola and my cousin packed our things after that and the last thing I knew was that we were at the airport.

My heart was pounding hard as people's shoes and heels clicked on the marble floor. I was actually leaving and moving forward.

Which was my chance to have a fresh start.

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