Kapitel 32: BROKEN VOW

Maria was confused, why her boss had a picture of little her and Toby.

She had a feeling about it, but she doesn't want to assume.

Tobias smiled at her sadly which lead to his dimple to appeared on his left cheek. She looked at the picture again, Toby was smiling beside her and his dimple appeared on his left chubby cheek too. Toby's eyes were like a dark chocolate, and Tobias had the same color too.

Could it be?

No! It couldn't be! Toby promised to find her when he arrived back from US.

So that means, that Toby was still there.

She kept her bracelet with her, so that when he arrived, he will be glad to know that she still cared for him.

Maria looked at him again, uncertainty and confusion were in her beautiful eyes. The looked in her eyes tells him to continue.

He took a deep breath and decided to tell her the truth.

'It's now or never!' he thought.

"when I was 8 years old, I'd met a cute little girl. She's pretty, I'd met her at the church. Our first encounter was I accidentally seated on her favorite swing. She called me a stealer because of it."

Tobias laughed slightly with sadness and looked at her seriously.

Maria felt her heart was in total chaos. Tobias was telling her a story that she knew already. He was talking while not leaving her eyes.

She felt her face burned and her eyes stung. Tobias continued,

"we argued but I apologized. Then, we became friends. We talked about all of our favorites, that included her favorite flower, the sunflower."

Maria controlled her emotions. She wanted to run, to escaped from this! She doesn't want to know! Her heart ached so much, but Tobias continued on torturing her.

"sadly, we never had the chance to knew each other more. I only knew her name, the same as her to me because my parents decided to migrate at the US. I called her Iya, my Iya. I gave her a bracelet, so I can recognized her when I came back. I made a promise to find her if I came back here, but I broke that vow."

Maria saw agony and regret in Tobias eyes.

She never realized that she was already crying.

Tobias and Toby were the same person?

Does he knew about it since then?

Is that the reason why he 'helped' her that night?

Her heart ached once more.

But he promised to find her! She calculated how many years his business was running. Its almost 4 years and he didn't find her?!

But why?!

"You already knew who I am, when we had... sex?"

she asked, stuttered. She can't control her emotions anymore!

She broke down!

Tobias shooked his head, telling her that he did not knew.

"I don't, I just knew about it last week. When you told me your favorite flower. I saw your bracelet, it looks familiar to me but I just shrugged it off. Your name too, but I think many people have the same names."

He explained to her, trying to reach for her face to wipe her tears.

She leaned back, not wanting to feel his touch. She hated him!

"did you get me investigated?"

She was answered with silence.

So, he did!

"you have no right to dig up my personal life!"

she shouted in frustration. Tobias was just looking at her with shame in his eyes.

Shame? F**k!

"you have no right after you abandon your promised, I kept my promise to you! I had never be friends with other boys! Even when we're little back then, but I put that promise to my heart. I only broke it when I was drugged, which is I knew now, that it was you! So I never did broke my promise!"

She stood up, wailing. She wanted to hug him because he was Toby. But she don't have the energy to do so, because she felt betrayed!

He betrayed her!