BOYFRIENEMIES
GLORIA RICCI
"Mr Ethan went out of the country with Sean on business, they'll be back in a few days" said Christopher, somewhat stammered as he had never lied before.
"If it's sudden, at least he should call me straight away. Look at this, the number is also out of touch" Chaerin pressed the calling button many times with a huff and showed it to Christopher.
"Maybe the signal there is very bad" Christopher tries to calm Chaerin down.
"Surely he's doing business in the middle of the desert!"
Christopher bowed, he had run out of excuses to calm Chaerin down. There's no way he's telling the truth that Ethan is in the hospital.
"What makes sense, we just got married yesterday and he went abroad. He should have taken me all for a honeymoon instead of bringing the white one!" Chaerin nagged, calling Sean white as if Sean was a pet.
"His name is Sean, Mr. Ethan chose a name for him and you better call him right" Christopher said in a slightly raised voice.
"Agh pisses me off, why are you so sensitive, he's your son! Chris, get people to get the car ready, I want to go to the hospital to visit Bear"
"You can't leave the house as long as Mr. Ethan isn't around" Christopher said quickly.
Ethan calls and orders a strict guard for Chaerin, as Arnoldo is most likely to go after Chaerin. It would be very dangerous if Chaerin wandered outside, so it was better to keep Chaerin at home.
"I'm going crazy!!"
Chaerin suddenly stood up and shouted, in Christopher's face for a moment. He desperately wants to scold the old man in front of him but he knows that Christopher is just doing what Ethan told him to do.
Chaerin walked while stomping her feet hard towards her room while muttering.
"Just look when that jerk comes home, I'll break every bone in his body and I'll make firewood!"
*
Beautiful, has a nice body, skin tight and glowing, people who do not know will think that he is still in his early 30s. But actually today is his 54th birthday celebration.
Gloria blew out the candle strongly and as all the candles died, the friends surrounding her clapped their hands festively.
Gloria smiled very happily. He looks like a teenager celebrating his sweet seventheen.
"Owh gosh I didn't expect that you were over 50" said the half-white-haired woman wearing peach stellan and sunglasses with a gold frame.
"Where do you take care of your skin? I also want to come there" said another woman in red as she waved her hand at her friends, as if giving a code that they also questioned the same thing.
"I didn't go to any doctor, you guys don't exaggerate" Gloria smiled in response to her friend's remark.
"It's not fair that you're the only one who looks beautiful at our age"
"Give me your beauty secret, I'll give you this instead" the woman in red touched the diamond necklace around her neck.
"Gloria's got everything, just a diamond necklace doesn't mean anything to her, give her a better deal" another woman in a bowler hat said.
"You don't need to offer anything to me" Gloria flicked her hand as she drank her wine gracefully.
"My secret is........."
The other women were already preparing to listen to the continuation of Gloria's words by putting their ears in fine line.
"Eating healthy food and exercise, you also should not be stressed, and live happily"
Gloria's words received disappointed cheers from her friends. They expected Gloria to name the brand of the product, or the name of the hospital where she had plastic surgery, because it made a lot more sense.
"Of course you're never stressed and always happy, you have a husband who loves you so much and a handsome dutiful kid, you're so lucky" said the woman in peach.
"Agh he's right, I'm so envious of his perfect life" said another woman and assented by another.
"What you talk about, it's too much" said Gloria humbled, but in her heart she was laughing happily for all the compliments she was pointing at, even though the reality was very inversely proportional.
The women again chatted while laughing together, enjoying the wine and also the view of the sunset by the beautiful sea. Until someone shows up.
"You're home, baby?" Gloria smile.
On her fix the collar of her husband's slightly messy clothes.
"You guys are partying?" Arnoldo said kindly.
"It's my birthday, you forgot?" Gloria pinched Arnoldo's arm slowly.
"Of course I remember, that's why I came home early. Can I borrow Gloria for a second, I just came home from abroad and miss her so much"
Arnoldo's sweet speech made everyone feel touched and quickly nodded.
Arnoldo led Gloria to an empty room on the second floor, where no one would be able to hear their conversation.
"What are you doing crazy old man, you want to ruin my fun!!!" Shouted Gloria instantly after the door closed.
"Where's Brian?!"
"I should have asked, you guys left together a few days ago, why didn't my son come home with you?!"
Gloria folded her arms, and took her eyes off Arnoldo, a sign she was upset.
"That son of a bitch, he might betray me and kill me, if he shows up, just report to me, I'll kill him first!" Threaten Arnoldo with a high tone.
"You have to look in the old man's mirror, try to say once again who do you want to kill?!"
"You know Ethan? Your son is friends with Ethan, he would rather side with his friend than me, when I am his father" Arnoldo sighed.
"If you are his father, be kind as a father. And stop yelling at me, dogs shouldn't yell at their masters!" Gloria pushed Arnoldo's shoulder with her index finger.
"What?" Arnoldo caught Gloria's hand and held it firmly.
"Don't just because we lived together for years, and I treated you as a husband, you didn't know yourself" Gloria said sarcastically.
"Bastard woman, you live enjoying all my hard work, you should know yourself"
Arnoldo glared at his wife, he had already let go of his grip on Gloria, but his hands were clenched tightly and raised into the air about to hit her. And without fear, Gloria instead smiled to mock Arnoldo.
"Don't forget, my father started this business, you were taken out of a filthy sewer and married to me, your life was a fortune marrying me. Everything you eat, everything you wear, it's all mine, even the men you think are so loyal to you, they all side with me, so watch your attitude before me, you're just a pet dog that can't bite its master" Gloria grabbed Arnoldo's collar.
Arnoldo parried his wife's hand and removed the woman's grip from her collar. Arnoldo stared at Gloria sharply, he was offended by Gloria's words, but what she said was true, without Gloria herself just a small animal in the gutter.
"And don't you ever touch Brian, he's your fucking son, you want to kill your own son!"
Arnoldo laughed as if he had just heard something very funny.
"Let's know whose son you slept with a lot of men when we got married you were pregnant. A cheap woman like you even acts holy in front of me by playing the figure of a good mother" Arnoldo's laughter grew uncontrollable.
"If I'm a cheap woman then what are you?! You bastard who used my anger to slander the woman you love until she went to prison and died there, you left your daughter stranded on the streets and froze to death. Are you saying you're holy?!"
Arnoldo shook, his eyes reddened and began to water. All the memories from 20 years ago suddenly appeared in his memory.
"Remember, you crawled back to me and swore that the woman and the child had nothing to do with you, you made me do a heinous thing for believing in that damn lie of yours that said you loved me so much! I'm no longer the foolish woman who will be consumed by your incitement. And I reiterate once again, if you dare to touch my son Brian, I'll make sure you die and I bury him under the floor of my room so I can trample you every day"
Gloria pushed Arnoldo and made the man stagger backwards. He came out of the room, closed the door hard to cause an echo in his large house.
From outside the room Gloria could hear her husband's upset screams and the sound of things on the slam, she already made Arnoldo very angry.
Gloria leaned weakly against the closed door, one by one tears fell down her cheeks. She banged her chest trying to calm her aching heart every time she met her husband.
The fact that her husband never loved her, the fact that her husband only survived with her for a position, that her husband never considered Brian to be his son, was that she was his, the fact that her husband loved another woman even when she was dead.
And what made her heart ache the most was the fact that she was still so stupid as to love her husband to this day.
