Published at 3rd of September 2019 09:03:36 AM Chapter 26
Alexa and Ramon made it to her home in a heartbeat . Ramon hasn't properly stopped the car yet before Alexa jump out and ran toward her house like the devil is chasing her . She was shouting as she enters the house . "Grandma, are you home! Grandma, I'm home! Where are you?" What she saw was a dark house with not one light was turned on .
When no one responds,' maybe she's resting in the bedroom' she started to despair and hastened and opened the only bedroom in the house . "She's not here either; where could she go?" She mutters as she frantically explores the back of the house . She then anxiously ran towards their next-door-neighbor to see if anyone saw her grandmother .
She knocked on the door rapidly, *knock! Knock! Knock!* The door opens, and an older lady appears in front of Alexa . "Aunt Inday, did you see my grandma?"
AdvertisementInday, shook her head vigorously, "I hadn't seen your grandmother since yesterday when she came and borrowed coupled of hundred dollars . I thought you came to pay . She told me you would pay today when you get done from your job? Do you have the money? The total is . . . "
Alexa could care less about the debt at the moment . What's more important is to find her grandmother . She's afraid that something had happened to her on the way home and could be laying on the street somewhere . On the way back to her home, she saw an old man and a couple of teenagers approaching .
"Uncle Lupe! Did you just come from playing Mahjong? By any chance did you see my grandmother there? . . . -Anyone? " Alexa's asking everyone that passed by with tears flowing on her face . "Please, anyone . . . I beg you if any of you seen my grandmother . . . " Grandma Santos was nowhere to be found, and Alexa's getting concerned by the minute .
Ramon came back from inspecting the other side of the street, as soon as he saw Alexas's shamble feature, and tears flowing down her beautiful face, his heart started breaking . He wanted to comfort her, do something for her, but he doesn't know how he would go about it . If only he could find her grandma, it would solve the issue .
Alexa saw Ramon coming, and she ran toward in his embrace while crying hard . "Ramon, what am I going to do? I can't find my grandmother?"
Ramon who's stunned for a moment was rooted to the ground and unable to move . His two hand in the air, afraid to touch Alexa . "It's alright! Everything would be alright, and I'm sure she's somewhere safe . She's probably playing Mahjong somewhere . " He jokingly told Alexa, hands still in up in the air like someone is robbing him . He kept his hands up as long as he could, but when Alexa started crying harder and started shaking . . . He has no choice but to begin comforting her by rubbing her back shoulder and brushing her hair with the other hand .
Alexa felt comforted and started to feel at ease . She sighed a relief before breaking up with Ramon's embrace . While looking at him with her puppy eyes, "Ramon, can I ask you a favor?"
Ramon would do anything for her, she could ask him to jump, and he would ask how high . "Sure! What is it?" Looking at her with tenderness emitting from his eyes .
Alexa paused for a moment, contemplating if she should or not, she then took a breather before going for her favor . . . She looks at him straight on his face before seriously asked . "Can I borrow a couple of hundred dollars?" She then looked down as soon as the word came out of her mouth embarrassed . . .
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