Reese stretched his arms as he entered the dining room. He saw his Dad and his Abuela eating their breakfast. They looked at him with looks that seemed to question.

"Buenos Dias, (Good morning)" he greeted as he sat down.

Reese doesn't know where or how to start to open up what Nicky was done. She was wrecking his entire being. He wants to open the subject and he make sure that it won't bring disappointment with them. These two people were expecting too much from him, they were hoping the wedding would continue next week, so he was blanked on how to start. But he has no choice because they need to know what happened.

"What was with that face?" her grandmother inquired.

Now he had to say that, the pain and failure's. If they violently react, it would not be his problem. He took a deep breath before he answer her.

"There would no marriage ceremony happen next week. The reason was obvious, same thing happened." He said that his daddy would almost drop the table knife he held. He could clearly see his reaction, his face was obviously shocked, while some other parts of him wanted to ask 'why' a thousand 'why's.

He expected it. Fate robbed his dad dream. He expected it that Don Carlos will hurt over the news. He could see the disappointment in Don Carlos eyes. He always like that when Reese has a problem, because Don Carlos was the first one to cry, naturally he was sympathize. He feels sorry to not fulfill his daddy dream.

Reese believes that someone like Arexia and Nicky just passed by, they're just coming and going away. Leaving a problem and pain. That is the cycle because they only come temporarily then they disrupt his life and suddenly disappear. Wow, the world was so cruel.

"The old same thing repeats itself" He said sadly. He missed nothing. He already did his best.

"I really don't know and why I'm like this, why I'm unlucky. At first it ends like nothing, and now I'm left defeated. Why is fate so cruel to me?" He added with sadness in his tone.

He told them the whole story, which shocked them. This was his fate. Maybe it's his destiny to always be unlucky in love or how easily he can be called the 'King's of Brokenhearted. Of course both his Daddy and Grandma knows his past bitter story. Now, repeated again. A tale of a groom that fail for second time around. A tale without the exciting climax only the conflicts that cannot be solve.

"She's an uncivilized woman!" His grandmother outrage went wild. There were always a dart in her words.

Don Carlos did not speak he forced his brain to process what he heard from the only son, Reese. He felt sorry for his only child, he was still young and yet, he had been through so much pain. He's living a fairytale life. Too young to exposed in kinda damn pain of love.

"Despite of everything Nicky is still a good person." finally Don said.

"Buena? (Good)" The old woman shouted in despair. "Oh, Carlos, you're out of your mind."

"Yes, she's good. I hope she will find her path to become genuinely good," Don Carlos said as if he was defending her.

Reese's Grandmother simpered "Oh, fool. Nicky wasn't for him, she's not. Did you hear what your son just said? It was all 'itchy, Yes, I suspected her in the first place that woman was really different, what a slut. Now look at your son, he seems to carry the weight of the world with all the burden on it. His marriage fate badly tortures him, " She said and weeping.

"There's no sense in arguing the marriage that will never happen," he said emotionless.

"Hijo! No Estoy de Acuerdo, (Son, I disagree)" said Don Carlos.

"There's nothing we can do, Dad." He was despair. He was terribly hurt.

"My dream Son." Don Carlos remind him.

"If you want a grandchild, then we can use science and technology. I think that's the best option by the meantime," He said, smirking.

"Loco, Que raro. (Crazy, that's strange)" His Grandmother protested "You lost your mind. You can't be a single father and in an abnormal way."

Reese sighed. "Right time please." He knew in himself that there will come in his life that she was ready to love him, the woman who will always stay by his side, that he would not be left in ups and downs. The woman who's willing to share his happiness and his misfortune.

"But you're already twenty-three."

Reese was clueless why the two forced him to get married at a young age and have a child, he knew he was too young to take on the responsibilities of a father.

"A man cannot bear a child," He laughed.

"Then why don't you come with me when I return to Madrid next week? You know there you will see what will be-"

"What does a Spanish woman know about taking care of a child like a Filipina mother?" He said interrupting what his Daddy had said. "It's not in my line to find a woman abroad Dad." He added that he seemed disgusted.

"But are you really okay, Son?" The Serious question of the old woman.

"I'm a man Lola, and after all Nicky isn't a big loss, right?"

"You're right," she said.

"I think I'm late." he suddenly said.

"Stay Home," said Don Carlos.

"I'm not going to the Office now Daddy. I'm just going to Manila." He said stand up.

"A few months from now you will return to Madrid." Don Carlos said coldly.

"I know that Daddy," he said and turned away.

Reese stopped his car on the beach it was far from the city, he wanted to be alone. He was carrying a beer, and sitting on the rocks and gazing on the welcoming sea. He was alone, he drinking alone.

That place became his favorite because whenever he had a problem he would hang out there, even when he was young he always went there, super breathtaking, and he feels enraptured. That place witnessed the flow of his tears from his eyes.

A severe pain ran down him, even though he said nothing had happened to him the day before yet, it still left a painful wound in his chest, burning his soul. He asked himself if Nicky was being happy with what she was doing to him. He doesn't know if she has a conscience, but she seems to be happy with what she was doing. Hell.

"You're literally so bad." His pronunciation of that line was inadvertently amplified. Later he heard two women talking pass behind him, He heard that the two said he was crazy and depressed, the conclusions of the two lady was tolerable and he no longer contradicted it. Indeed he was really out of his own mind.

Reese was electrified by pain and depression, the marriage depression. He's scared of telling that to the world or else he will receive tons of 'I told you so'.

"That's how young people are today, Mare. Maybe that one is frustrated with love," said the fatty lady.

"I don't know about them, they love and then when they are hurt they cry. Where is the courage there Mare, isn't it when you love you are ready to accept the consequences, if the person you love leaves you you must be strong. Face it with all your might. That is why no one can compare with us as a product of three decades ago, even if it hurts, we can still get up and face tomorrow." The other lady answer.

A groom without bride for two times, that's big tale that I couldn't tell to the world, and Hell I can't.

He looked at them while they're walking away. He realized that they have the point actually. Reese needs to be a man and face the situation, then the right time will come for him.

He sighed and stood up. One thing in his mind that's to bury what had just happened in oblivion. Reese thinks of a woman whose heart was full of kindness. Later, her image plays in his mind, the shape of her body, her voice, her blue eyes, the perfect Zev seems lovely.

I'll show you who's Reese without you Nicky-a total cold-blooded, but you'll get jealous later when the right princess claims me as her prince.

Reese is in his room. He was silent as he typed his fifth novel. The young man plans after publishing that novel he will go to Wuhan, China to visit his best friend Lee.

Even in a broken-hearted situation the young man was forced to work his brain to imagine. He smiled as he watched what he typed.

Even though he wasn't a professional novelist his novels were written well and his imagination was running wild, his imagination was continuous. He's not like the stranger Zev he knew the other day who was a super fan of Romance. Zev? Suddenly he asked himself. Reese stopped what he was doing. The lights made the things glisten, that's my-

But he was interrupted by the ringing of his cellphone, Matt was the name registered on the Caller ID of his cellphone.

"¿Que fecha es hoy? (What's today's date)" he asked immediately on the other line.

"Primero de Octubre, (It's Monday, October first)" he replied. "So what's about Date?" He asked again.

He could hear his friend chuckles from the other line. "Supposedly." He sneezed before continuing to say "Isn't today the wedding ceremony? Supposedly. Ah, so perfect and fine day perfect for wedding, but unfortunately-hmmm,"

His body suddenly reacted to a sudden pain that ran down him, he felt a rush of adrenaline, he was stabbed in the chest ten times and it was freaking hurt. Reese had to control his eyes from a burning sensation. But he could not stop the tears from falling. He quickly wiped them away with his palm.

"Still there?"

Reese sighed.

"I heard you sighing"

"Que planes tiene para esta noche? (What are you doing tonight)" he just asked his friend, to temporarily forget the pain that tortures him.

"As Usual Bro. By the way, the clothes you left in Zev's apartment are already here. Dude, are you sleeping with her?" He said and asked.

"What a fool brain." He threw himself on his bed. "Why the clothes was with you?" He forget that it was Matt who send him to Zev apartment.

"She left it to me."

There he grabbed the chance "Are you guys related." A little bit of curiosity fill him.

He laughed. "Zev, is actually my kababayan"

"I see! Also from Las Piñas?"

"Dickhead of course. Hep, Kiddo, Don't tell me you're interested with her irresistible charm. Hmm, baby you'll make me insecure, Im jealous."

"Fuck you,"

"I'm looking forward to it."

"W-what?" He gasped.

"The day you'll fuck me," he said without stopping the laughter.

"Asshole wanna see bullet hole in your head."

"In my ass, daddy"

"Bye for now bull shit."

He heard his laugh. He's funny. Matt is his best friend, a trusted one, kind, and like a brother to him.

He's a sweet guy, but he knows he's also interested in men. No, he's not a bisexual, he's straight, he understood Matt why he was attracted to his fellow man, to the gay and bisexual guy, he once told him about Kith. He didn't know who Kith he was referring to, but he seemed happily mentioning Kith's name. He's bewitched with that Kith.

He sighed and he heard it, he wasn't hang up yet, he loves listening to his rant. He's funny. He use a lot of jokes just to make him smile. Matt knew he was broken, so he understood why it suddenly became weird at the time.

"Bitch, I'll hang-up," he sighed.

"Take Care of yourself," he said from the other line.

"Is that legit care, Matt?" he laughed.

"Scam, All right, I know you'll court Zev,"

"Will you support me?"

"I will support Zev, not you." He guffawed.

"Bitch, adios"

"Adios (Bye)" he said goodbye

He put down his Cellphone and smiled as he remembered the name of a beautiful goddess that conquer his heart. A heart that was in pain but slowly healed with her presence.