The Runaway Bride

Places, names, events and hotels that mentioned in this story are came from the imaginative mind of the writer. Thank you for Reading! Marrying someone that I've never met is perfectly ridiculous I don't even know what kind of person he is. What would be my life after marrying him is he a good man or a bad man? Young man or old man? "Arrgh! I cannot believe tita Beatrice" I say in disbelief. I was abandoned by my parents to tita beatrice they say that they will come back and give me the life I deserve but how many years had come a decade actually I never saw their faces. I'm eighteen years old now my tita surprised me with a big gift and that is to marry someone. My life is all at messed now. "Astrid are you okay?" My cousin Bella asked. "What do you think?" I deeply breath. My cousin is the only person who understand me everything I have and she has we shared to each other. I'm so greateful she didn't get the attitude of her mother. "You can escape now Astrid" she said. "Are you out of your mine Bella! Your mother would furiosly kill me if I will do that" She looked at me and thinking something. She badly wants me to escape from the house she doesn't want me to suffer from being controlled by others. She nodded out of nowehere. "Hey b***h, what is on your mind?" "On your wedding you'll not be show up that's my plan" she seriously said. "On my wedding day?!? I throw her my pillow she is unbelievable she really wants her mother to die early. "Do you want to kill your mother?" Her eyes widened. "Astrid! Of course not!" "Then what the hell came into your mind to think that plan?" I seriously asked her. "You will meet your groom in your wedding day right?" I nodded. "Then my plan is exactly right for you to escape. You didn't know who is he everything about him you didn't know" she explained. Her mother would blame her and knowing tita beatrice she will really do everything to find you even you are living in a small cage in the world. I hold her shoulder. "What about you?" "Don't worry about me astrid is it you to be worry about besides she is my mother she won't hurt me" Her words makes me calm after all help that their family gave to me they deserved to do what they want to me and I deserved to give it to them. I'd rather choose to be their slave  rather than marrying someone who is perfectly stranger. Three days had passed after my eighteenth birthday and now I'm getting married people says that no matter what situations you have in your life do not choose to marry a rich man because you will be entitled as gold digger. What is the difference in me? "Tita beatrice please I will do everything but not this" I pleaded her. She smiled slightly enough for me to think that she doesn't like what I say. "Do you think Astrid you will be able to lived a good life without this man?" "Yes tita! And if I marry this man for money where is my freedom? You always say lived freely. Did you just ate what you say tita!" My long glimmering white gown get the atensiyon of people outside the house as I walked out. I walked towards bella she was stunned as she saw me crying and I don't f*****g care to this itchy make up on my face. "Astrid!" I heard tita beatrice called. I didn't listen to her. Make up artists wedding organizer and some of tita beatrice was here to make themselves impressive as if they are the bride. "Oh God! Astrid your make up is all messed" bella said in panic. "She doesn't understand me!" I hissed. "You know your tita Beatrice Astrid" and now tito Jhon was comforting me. There's no other way but to stick on what bella's plan. "Dad I can handle her" bella said to her father. She is older than me Bella became my bestfriend even at school she always on my side whoever bullied me. "I will do what you say Bella" She smiled at me. "Thats my girl" "Go now and make a retouch so that if you will escape you'll not like a messy bride" she chuckled. If my freedom will be the exchange after the wedding then maybe I should make a way to be free even not a hundred percent because i'm surely someone saw me somewhere and notice who really I am. Hiding and getting someone's identity is very difficult to do. The driver of the bride's car filled with trepidation no ones outside the church maybe the groom is already inside and all of them are very excited to see me. "I'm sorry tita beatrice" I'm still wearing the wedding gown fitted to me my feet is getting reddish because of stilletos that I'm wearing. Gold earings, necklace and bracelets are so expensive but that's not what I want all of my accesories in my body I gave it to the taxi driver. "Sell this, thats more than the price of my fair"  "Ma'am we don't accepted accesories and its to expensive they will sue me for getting an expensive things" I sigh. "Stop here" I examined the pawnshop in front of me. Busy people filling up their forms to pawn their especial thing in their lives. "I want it to sell is it okay?" I asked the pawnbroker. She examined it from edge to edge and I saw her amazed, my necklace is an gold amulet and my bracelet is gold too with a real diamond pendant. "Are you sure miss?" I rolled my eyes. "Yes, just please hurry up" irritated filled my body as I saw people around me is watching. After a long wait the money is in my hand she gave 100,000 for the price I don't know the real price each jewelry I have. "That rich man" I said of nowhere. "Ma'am where will I take you?" I need to go far from here I need to let myself get away from people keep manupulating my life. "To the Port" I simply said. I decided to go to palawan maybe I could apply a job there and make my life contented. I'm already inside the port and waiting for the next travel to arrive. Thinking about my tita's face is making me ill at ease. The travel via boat is about three hours and  my outfit still the same I don't want to waste my time going to buy clothes and my money is just enougj for me to travel and stay to some hotels there while looking for my lifetime work. "Ma'm drinks and foods?" Someone serving food inside the boat and I don't have choice but to buy hungriness filling my empty stomach. I stared at him. "Water and noddles" "Don't stare at me as if you know what is going on" I said with annoying face. He chuckled. "Sorry Ma'am did the groom runaway?" I gave him a sullen glance and looked away. People always judge a person in a way they want. The vibration cut my deeper thinking I can't find where is that vibaration coming from I examine all sides of my body and i did touch of the part where there are hard things on it and guess what I've found a cellphone. Bella: Where are you? I put it inside your gown for us to communicate just atleast update me. She was really kind i'm so touch I'm forever grateful to be her cousin. Me: Don't worry about me they might caught you helping with me. She directly replied to my message. Bella: Please if you need help just message me. Me: Thank you so much Bella. What ever life waits for me there I will face it and no matter what life problems would gave me I fully embrasse it. When I arrived at Coron I straightly as where hotels are not too expensive and they said it is in venture hotel. "Can you take me there?" The tricycle driver nod. It was far from the port but the people here are so quite and the place is so clean no pollutions less noisy this is what I want to have not a perfect life nor to be rich by marrying a rich man. Simple life will do. "Here's ny pay" "Ma'am thats too big I don't have a change" I smiled. "Keep the change, thank you" When I'm about to enter the hotel when someone's car bumped into me and everything went dark. After a long sleep I walk up to unfamiliar place and unfamiliar smell the room are so refreshing and it is combined with the color of wood and a gray the bed is too big for my hourglass body to filled the space on it. "Where I am?"