THE LETTER

Dearest Jessica,

Baby… By the time you're reading this, if you do find this letter, I should already be in California. I am really sorry that I have to leave without seeing you once more and with a proper goodbye. I want to apologize on behalf of my parents, especially my mother, for those harsh profanities they spewed to you earlier. I am sorry for being so powerless and useless against them, which led us to this whole ordeal; in result, placed you in the receiving end. There are so many things that I wanted so badly to apologize to you for.

I know that all these 'sorry' won't change the fact to whatever happened and they don't grant me privilege to your acceptance nor forgiveness. But baby, please do know that there was never a time I regret meeting you. If given a chance to relive my life, meeting you and going through everything we have had, are what I would trade the world for. And if I get to relive my life, I'd wish I wasn't born in this family.

Ever since a child, I was brought up strictly to never defy my parents and me succeeding their business once I hit the legal age, was legally set by them. They constantly coached me to always act prim, proper, follow what is considered right to them and never do what was deemed wrong. And this time round, I have to serve the punishment for ‘stepping out of line’. So please, please promise me, not to blam