It was 12:00 a.m in the midnight when Natasha woke up from a frightening dream. She was shaking and crying. Her tears were uncontrollably falling from her rosy cheeks.
"Sorry, sorry, sorry, please forgive me. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't mean it. I'm really sorry. Please!", she was terribly scared. She wrapped her arms in her knees. Few minutes came, she was back in her intact mind.
"11 months passed by, my twin sister died because of me. I runaway from home. I don't want to get married to someone I don't even know, to someone I don't even like, and to someone I don't even love. Because of my stupidity, because of my rushed decisions and choices, l lost my own sister. It's all because of me! It's all my fault!", said Natasha while reminiscing the accident happened to her loving sister.
Natasha has an identical twin, named Natalie. They were exactly look a like that you can't even recognize who's Natasha and who's Natalie.They were very close, as if there's no such things in this world that can separate nor break them apart. THEY WERE INSEPARABLE! They were together in every ups and downs, through good times and bad times, and they would always support and have each others back.
Until one day...
EVERYTHING has changed.
Natalie died when someone accidentally hit her car while she was desperately going to come after her sister, Natasha. She wanted Natasha to come back home with her and make an agreement, or plans to convince their parents, she wanted to help her sister to cancel the engagement or if there's no choice left, she is willing to take Natasha's place and be the bride. She was unsure if their parents would agree or disagree about her plans.
That's how she loves her sister, she will do everything for her. She got many plans but that plans were suddenly vanished like a pop of a bubble that fades away. Natalie's journey on earth wasn't everlasting.
In life, we can't predict what will happen to us in the future. We know nothing about today, and tomorrow.
Everytime we make a decisions and choices, we don't have to rush things, we have to be careful and we must think the best thing to do, or else, it negatively affect our future.
And so, unexpected accident happened. The truck lost its break and hit Natalie's car on her way to her sister's location. It was a severe impact that the car was almost ruined, made it impossible for Natalie to survive inside the car.
It was a nightmare for Natasha that she would always dreamed about the incident. It's still fresh to her mind, it was like yesterday. She would always blame herself for what happened to her twin sister 11 months ago. She would always wish for the time to come back, to fix everything she had done. And that, there's a TIME MACHINE for her to come back.
The phone rang....
"Hello? Is this the parents of Ms. Natalie Sterling?", said the police officer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sterling answered, "Yes? Speaking, how may I help you?"
"Mrs. Sterling, this is to inform you that Ms. Natalie Sterling just had an accident, a 6 wheeler truck hit her car that she was trapped inside it. She was severely injured. We immediately rushed her to the nearest hospital but she was dead on arrival, please come here immediately at X Hospital", said the police officer.
Upon hearing the emergency call of the police officer, Mrs. Sterling almost fainted, she can't believe what she just heard.
NATALIE IS DEAD.
They immediately went and rushed at the hospital.
Scene at the X Hospital:
"Tal, please wake up! Don't leave your Mommy like this please! We can't bare to lose you Natalie, Hervert! Please do something, please, I'm begging you.", Mrs. Sterling said while terribly crying wrapping her arms into the dead body of Natalie. "Honey, I'm sorry, it's hard, very hard for me to accept how Natalie died, it was because of me, if I didn't forced Natasha to marry someone she doesn't love, she wouldn't followed her. It's all my fault. Natasha needs us, we still have her, I know Natalie don't want us to leave Natasha in vain, it's really hard to accept it but we must accept it.", a broken-hearted Mr. Sterling said.
"No! How could you say that? If it weren't for Natasha, Natalie won't end up in this horrible accident! It's all her fault! How could you still honor Tasha as our daughter?!", said Mrs. Sterling anger blasts with a very loud voice.
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Mr. Sterling tried all his best to reach Natasha. He wanted to inform her about Natalie. He called her but she would turned off her phone. He then send plenty messages but he didn't get any replies.
All Sterling's family were mourning of Natalie's death. Mrs. Sterling was in a great distress, grieving. The business partners of Sterling Group were all present.
Natasha was secretly visited her twin sister almost every night in her memorial. She doesn't want to show up, she was scared and afraid that their parents might cut their ties and dishonor her as the daughter of Sterling family. She was very upset, depressed, and disappointed to herself. She didn't wish to be in this situation, she didn't wanted her sister to die, she didn't wanted this pain. She close her eyes, wishing that it was all a dream.
It was Natalie's interment day, Natasha came secretly. She cried terribly hard, her eyes got swollen. She misses her sister, she wanted to die. Her sister would always say "Live, and enjoy life, love it, it's precious, it's a gift, so, take care of it". Natalie would always encourage her when she is upset . Now, no one will do that.
Mr. Sterling have been observing the place hoping that Natasha would appear in Natalie's interment day. She found her. She was hiding at the back of the trees.
He then came closer to Natasha, "Natasha! Wait, where have you been all this time? I tried to reach you but you didn't send me a replies. You didn't call me.", his father worriedly asking her.
" Father, I didn't show up because I was a disgrace to the family. I was the one to be blame, it was all my fault! Please forgive me. I never wanted Natalie to be in that situation. I never expected to turned things like this." She cried as she explained herself. Her father hugged her. "You're not at fault. It was me. If I didn't forced you, it won't happen. I'm so sorry, please come back home." his father calmly said.
Natasha have been married to Jack Tebris for almost 11 months. Yes! It was after Natalie died a month ago that they have arranged the marriage. She agreed to marry the man who was supposedly fated to her sister and this was the least thing she can do for her family.
But............
That man doesn't know anything..
He doesn't even know that she is Natasha.
People thought that Natasha was the one who died in that horrible accident. The Sterling's hid it from everyone, they intentionally deceived people's eye to protect their family status. Only few knows the real identity of Natasha. Also, the Tebris family favored Natalie than Natasha to be the wife of Jack.
Natalie have been a good girl, graduated in a prestgious school with a Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy, and attained the highest honor in college. She is smart, kind-hearted, deligent, demure, and has many knowledge in businesses.
On the other hand, Natasha is a bit spoiled brat, just an average person, loves to party and goes home late. She graduated in a prestigious school with a 4 year degree in Information Technology. She is just a regular student with a dream to get a diploma in college. So, instead, they hid the truth and let Natasha play a role as Natalie. Natasha was trained and she learned everything about businesses, she even practiced and imitated Natalie's personality. It was hard for her to pretend, but she endured it and do her best to be Natalie.
On their very first night, Jack didn't even touched Natasha. Instead, he slept in a different room which left Natasha alone. Natasha knew that Jack won't love her, he didn't even laid eyes on her, not even touched a single strand of her hair. She tried to stop her fantasy 'cause she knows her place, she knows where she belongs and she doesn't deserve to be love by her sister's husband, but............. everytime she sees him, her heart rapidly beating. She can't stop loving him secretly.
Jack Tebris doesn't come home everyday after they got married. He comes home every 3 months. And when he is home, he doesn't even talk to Natasha a.k.a Natalie. He is always busy making more moneys. He travels around the world for business purposses only. He is cold, hot tempered, and impudent. He is tall, handsome, has pointed nose, kissable lips, fair skin,and blue eyes, everything that a woman desires for a man is completely with Jack's. No wonder many women fall for him, seducing him, luckily, Jack's aware that he is a married man.
Next month, Jack will be back, home. So Natasha would always prepare dishes for Jack. She would always cook. She even took a cooking class to favor Jack.
"A good wife cooks delicious foods for her husband.", she said and declared all by herself. I hope he is in a good mood when he comes home." She sigh.
Natasha knows that he will not gonna love her. "I don't wanna give a damn hope to this damn feeling." she laugh at herself.
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