1 Chapter 1: Hometown (2/2)

Hearing it, she turned her back once again.

”I am not rude, I am heartbroken” she exclaimed and lay the book and bottled water on the counter.

After paying the items, she sat back to her previous chair. She took the notebook and found that it was a diary.

Without knowing, her hand reached for a pen inside her bag and started writing.

Dear Diary,

'I left him…'

Her hand frost, she could no longer write, then a drop of tear fell on the notebook, making it wet, she grabs a tissue and wipe her eyes. Then she continued.

'I want to go back, my heart wants to go back but my mind… my crazy mind is asking me to leave. For my family' sake.'

She gulped and sighed.

'What I did was unfair and I know that, leaving him after accepting his proposal. I can feel his pain, by now, I am sure he's awake, furious, confused and heartbroken. I want to talk to him again, but I can't go back… not now, not ever.'

' I hope one day, he can forgive me.'

Writing those words somehow lifted her feeling, she closed the diary and got up after the ground staff announced her flight.

Before getting inside the plane, she looked back. Her eyes gloom with sadness.

”Goodbye Ken”

After the plane landed, Novie took her luggage and proceed to the taxi lane, a few minutes later, she arrived in her hometown.

She went down from the taxi after paying; she sighed and looked around the garden of their house.

Panglao, Bohol.

A tangled green island, a land of rich soil, moist forest and sand bleach. It's a small Island where most people know each other.

It's still light when she arrived, the front door of her parent's house was closed while the street was busy. Some people who recognized her smiled and greeted her.

The island was small, and people living a simple life, even after the disaster brought by the earthquake, people were able to recover and move on.

She stared at the house where she grew up. Their house is located few kilometres away from the shore, giving them fresh and cold air.

They have been living here since she was small, when she was five years old, her father quit his job as an Interpol agent and decided to move in to Bohol and starts a new life, while her mother, who worked as a secretary in the Russian embassy quit her job after her father convinced her to move and live a simple and peaceful like in Bohol.

Her mother is a sweet and loving mother, she loves to cook and read novels. But sometimes she can be evil, mostly when Novie and her brother fight. After moving in Bohol, her mother did not bother to work, so she spent most of her time chatting or gossiping to her friends about celebrity and other people's life.

When her mother's face flashed in her mind, a smile curved up her lips, her adrenaline rushed in thinking of her parent's reaction after seeing her.

Some months ago, she left her province. Even though she had finished college, the course she took was something she didn't like. Her mother forced her to take education and be a teacher but to her, being a teacher means you will need a lot of patience and time.