“Honey, Mom and Rina’s finally here!” I can feel my heart jumped at that moment. I looked back and showed a warm smile. “The food’s getting colder, let’s go!”
As we walked down the stairs, I noticed the absence of our maids, making me a bit baffled.
“Hey honey, where are our maids? I didn’t see them today.” I asked. “Normally, I could see a couple of them, cleaning our stairs.”
“Uh well, I told them to go home early,” my husband smiled and fixed my dress. “Well, your mom told me that we will be eating; and advised that no maids should be left here.”
I slowly nodded and held tightly to his hand. I am scared of what might happen, but perhaps this is better. I am pregnant with twins, and I don’t want to feel stressed out anymore, so it would be better to settle it now.
“Hello, sis!” a woman with a pink dress shouted and waved at me. A lot of people asked me before if we were really sisters since we don’t look alike that much. “You are looking so gorgeous as ever!”
I glanced at my mom, and I could sense her awkwardness even if we were a bit far from each other. I leaned closer towards my sister and kissed her on the cheek. She then smiled at my husband and offered to hug him. My husband scratched his nape and moved away, making me narrow my eyes.
“Hey, what’s wrong with you?” my sister laughed and opened her arm. “Why do you look so awkward.”
My husband laughed and then responded to my sister’s offer by hugging her back. A minute of silence enveloped our place, and we found ourselves grinning at each other.
“I think we should go eat now.” my husband pointed at our enormous dining table. “The soup might get cold!”
We then walked towards our table and sat down.
“Where are the maids? I can’t see anyone?” Rina asked as she started looking around. “I want an extra utensil.”
“Ah, apparently, Mom told me to make them go home early so we could enjoy this night.” my husband responded and took out an extra spoon. “Here, you can use this. I have enough utensils.”
Rina then nodded and smiled. “Thank you, bro.”
I picked up my spoon and glanced at my mom who was currently consuming the lobster.
“Ah, Mom, Rina has a TV appearance on Sunday, right? I think it would be better to finish early so we could all go to rest.” Rina and Tyrone looked at me with so much confusion. “You know, let’s not waste each others’ time.”
“What do you mean, honey?” my husband asked and dropped the fork. “You know the reason for this dinner? Is it serious?”
“Honey, you should go and start eating first and then we’ll talk about it later.” my mom smiled and drank some water. I nodded and started eating my soup, and after a few minutes, I could feel my eyes getting heavy. My vision started to get blurry, and I found myself losing consciousness.
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When I woke up, I became confused when I was inside a coffin. I have no idea how much time has passed, but I feel ill. I felt my stomach hurt a little, and when I touched it, I then remembered that I was pregnant. I tried to move and push the coffin, but it wasn’t opening. When I found a hole, I peeked on it, and I couldn’t believe my eyes.
“My dress might get dirty! You can do it!” I can see Rina holding a shovel. “Make it fast, Tyrone!”
“You haven’t started burying? Oh god. I left here for like an hour!” My stomach knotted when I heard my husband reply. “I know I should not have asked you a favor. I will tell Mom about this so she won’t give you your inheritance in the future.”
“Help! Help!” I screamed, making both of them startled. “Please, help me, why are you doing this?!”
“Oh my god, she’s already awake..” Rina responded and started throwing some sand and rocks using the shovel. “Make it fast, Tyrone!”
“Why are you doing this to me?!” I shouted and started weeping. “I treated you all nicely!”
“I am sorry, honey. We realized it is better this way.” Tyrone responded. “In fact, we already found a surrogate mom so we won’t be needing your twins.”
“See you in hell!” Rina added.
As rocks started to pile on the coffin, I accepted my fate.
“I am sorry, my love,” I whispered and touched my stomach. “I am sorry I wasn’t able to protect you..”
