8 years ago in a normal day, Manu was trying to make a call her husband, trying to fix their situation but no one's answering and she was gone irritated again. Currently she was keep standing outside the flower and gift shop. She was trying to get contact with him but no one's answering again, so she growled, but decided to make a voice message.

[Please don't miss any calls, also I was coming to tell you that I did tried my best, I know you want to have a son, but don't be at least disappointed on me. believe me.]

She shove her phone to her pocket while she was walking through the restaurant seeing that her husband was kissing with the other woman, her heart felt ache, from the terrible pain. She was walking backward but unexpected a car hit her, she also get hit by the lamppost.

In 12 hours straight, Manu finally wakes up when she rubs her eye, seeing Daniela on her side.

"I saw that my husband cheated on me! You hear me. I saw with my very own eyes!" Manu groans but her best friend Daniela hugs her tight with her own relief. "I'm glad you remember everything!"

"W-What? W-Who the heck are you? But your voice was too familiar; I know that's Daniella's voice."

"I'm Daniella!"

She cried afterwards suddenly remembering about what her husband did, but Daniella was giving her tight hug again.

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That was I remember from few years ago, I was been idiot and stupid for finding out that my husband cheated again for the past 8 years. I thought he made his promise not to do it again to me. Well, well I am had enough drama to remember what he did to me, I was done being this miserable wife and I wanted to be single.

I'm already single, but I still love him that's why I'm this totally desperate, I couldn't move on.

In the present time, I was currently managing Vulcanizing shop; yeah I was like always usually doing that business, also that was I could do while I was busy doing tires, that Italian girl I know is coming to me right now. I didn't even know what Daniella wants now.

"Manuela, I've got some offer for you." Daniella told me, I wasn't been feeling excited for that f*cking surprise. "What is that?"

"You know the Dating app, I was bring a handsome boy here personally. So maybe you could finally move on with your life, because your free...you can do whatever you want!"

"I feel still not, okay!"

I'm not interested in that bugging app date some sort or whatever. I'm not feeling okay with that.

"Yeah but Manu you have to know that the guy that I tried to date with is coming to see you personally, I know you are going to be excited for this, you know who?"

"Who is?"

"Henry, ugh...I can't believe you're like having dementia all over! You know he was a good man, he wasn't like your husband, so you would be so much comfortable with him."

"You know what, I will think about it if I'm super interested."

Daniella was leaving but then again I was back to my boring life like this, after doing the whole day of work of course I am that very tired, I was going to sit on the couch then drink beer, well I was alone there until someone knocking very loud so I become annoyed to that.

That guy who has beard, not totally covered up to his face and not much hairy.

"What do you want?" I ask him immediately before I have second and third thoughts to think what his interests of me are. "I am here to talk to you Manu." He replied but his voice was a bit familiar but I only think that first.

"How do you know my name?"

"Can't you remember about me at all?"

I shook my head. "I don't really...I tried but I don't."

Then I suddenly close the door, I'm not interested anymore to talk to that stranger man like him, so I was going to get some sleep in the bed, while I'm totally alone. Like I'm really super alone. In the next morning I was expecting this day would be normal like the old days I hope can be without my husband.

Then after eating breakfast I was going back to my usual work, I know this isn't getting better since I really don't easily recognize people since 8 years ago.

I was going to wash cars for my customers, until the guy shows up and I didn't expect that all the guys there are almost had interest of me, ugh...I never got interest to love again. Well there's no certainly chance.

"Hey I'm Henry, I know you couldn't remember me but Daniella told me you are like suffered from Alzheimer or something." My eyes turn wider, when I realize that his voice was familiar and that smile too. "My gosh, don't tell me your Henry Danger!"

He suddenly stops smiling while I chuckled; wow I realize I am worst comedian ever. He didn't get it at all.

"Okay never mind Mr. Danger, anyway I don't know what you want, tell me now."

"Oh I will tell you what I want, because I know that you're maybe very interested to join to accept this offer, Daniella told me you are excellent writer and actress, I hope you can accept my offer, I wouldn't never do this, except when she told me how talented you are."

"Sorry but I'm not interested in that kind of opportunities and stuff..."

I suddenly become so irritated to his stupid offer, I'm not interested to do and work big. Anyway I can handle myself working forever in this vulcanizing and car wash shop forever. But while I was continuing cleaning the car, I couldn't believe to myself he was still standing there. Is he was deaf or what?!

"Hey, you deaf? Or you want me to get you some cotton buds for you?" I ask him straight and he let out a big sigh. "You don't have to waste on this Manu, I also been concern that your still needing to pay for the debt to one of your former coworkers, for 60,000 Euro."

Oh f*ck, I also forgot to pay to someone.

"Yeah of course I have to pay to that to the coworker you said Henry but not now, that's why I'm working here not doing something stupid like licking someone stupid tits! Unconsciously yummy-dubby!"

He tries to hold his straight face but almost fails miserably. "Um...your turning crazy Manu, forgot to heard about what you said, but I hope you change your mind. So I give you my card, you can come to my studio if you change your mind...this can give you a nice future."

I did take the card that he's trying to give me before leaving, then I was seeing the address and the name of the studio, its Studio One Productions, I know it. The one always produces Short films in Independent film.

Okay now I had to think about it while washing cars and fixing tires, maybe that's the good idea though, after work I was going to buy groceries to buy a dozens of root beer and a lot of flour for baking later. I was driving to go back home to put the groceries in the table in the kitchen.

I hear doorbell was ringing then I was going to open up the door, there's the woman who was with the child, the f*ck...why do I have so many visitors today? Isn't it because they got attention to my looks?

"What do you want now?" I ask the woman immediately it seems she has this serious face, "I am here to bring your daughter in, you are going to take care of her from now on."

I was shock about what the woman said, like what?!

"What are you talking about? I never had a daughter before...I thought that you had miscarriage before that's what my husband told me about."

"But Manuela I saved your baby, he didn't tell you the truth because he wants to be with that other woman, also he decided to leave his child to me, like we've done some business about the child issues."

"What's issues?" The child ask to the woman.

"The issue that I told you about, anyways its better that we come inside to tell you everything you need to know about your real mother."

I let them come inside because I think I have to know what I have to know, maybe I have to practice more face recognition then, I really can't recognize her faces...I started to figure out the woman that I talk to, but remember that I know her already with my husband before.

"She is your real mother, her name is Manuela Graf." The woman pointed me out that I'm that of course. But the kid was trying to think dipper. "I think she looks like one of the GTA without the bikinis."

Huh? WTF!

"You have to be nice with her; you didn't meet her for so long because she works hard for you. you have to understand that your parents are in different path...so th—"

"So that means they had different crossroads??"

The woman let out a big sigh. "No, that means they had their own family and they don't love each other anymore but they both love you so much."

"Anyways she's right." I commented.

"My name is Tanja..."

Tanja did suddenly want to have shake hands with me but I did that because she wanted to, I did a bit smiled afterwards.

"Anyway I couldn't remember you again, your name?" I asks the woman when my eyes turn at her. "I am Sylvia, have you forgotten me, Manu?"

Oh, I didn't expect she's Sylvia, I did had plan with my husband for Sylvia to give us a child since we had problems at fertility, but he still wanted a son not a daughter, I don't know the reason why he wouldn't been so grateful at least we had Tanja for so long.

"Oh I remember you Sylvia, I remember now...With your gestures then your voice...but you're so different."

"What? Do you have amnesia or what? Or are you being fantasizing about future?"

"Oh come on...well thanks for telling me about Tanja, at least I'm very aware... after all hard work that they tried inserted my eggs and his f*cking semen into yours."

"I'm not here for introduction and doing on-tour to your house. I'm here to decide to let you take care of Tanja, she is staying here from you from now on."

What?! This could be a biggest nightmare to do this, why Tanja was staying here?!

"Sylvia, we need to talk!"

I did pull her that we go to the kitchen together to talk about the issue, I'm not going to take care of Tanja, and I'm not really good into this about mother thing stuff. I couldn't really do it.

"You should take care of her; do you think I have an idea to be a mother now? You see that my life is a mess? I'm this broken girl who is always been desperately alone!" I moan to her, but she huffs.

"Manu, I thought you never say that. you really got to love your own child, maybe this is just crazy that you told me about this."

"THIS IS MADNESS!"

"You don't need to shout I'm not deaf!"

"Hey you forgot the last line."

"What line?"

"Whole Sarah's line from House of Anubis..."

She suddenly pounded my head and which I react; come on it's like that it's hard to do this for me. My plan was changed because I wanted to be alone but this is great with Tanja.

"I'm serious here Manu, you are going to be responsible mother to her...now that she's fully grown up and you can raise her well. She understands your situation with Martin and about us. I'm trying to say that now show her to be a good mother to her."

"Oh seriously now without Martin on my side!"

"You got to be kidding me, is that all what you're thinking after all? You can be independent without father's support, that's why single mother can be a father all the time!"

"But I don't know how to handle being a mother, you have no idea at all, now that I am still on my job...I'm not even getting rich. I have a lot of problems then this is what going to happen?!"

"Are you saying Tanja was the additional problem to your life?"

I shook my head; I didn't mean she was the problem at all. I really hate doing full responsibility now.

"You had no idea I tried to be careful while I am carrying your child, I hope you should appreciate that your daughter is well and alive, also that you shouldn't been complain about her. She was your responsibility now, be thankful that I did take care of her..."

"But seriously I didn't know what kind of motherhood thing I should do."

"Maybe that would test you how mother is a big responsibility, but for the first week I will see if you are doing well for the parenting."

"I can't handle a child like her, you also teach her to become a philosopher!"

"Manu, I don't want to waste my time to argue about this. Show me that you can be become a good mother, but I will going to say I will going to see if you're doing fine being a mother for her, until you can be finally handle it yourself."

Then after Sylvia leave in the kitchen, I was so stressed right now after all for having a lot of problems, it is not the right time about handling another responsibility. When I come back to the living room I saw how Tanja was happy.

"You should know that you are staying from your mother from now on, but if she did something bad or anything you can call me anytime, I also visit you here several times." Sylvia told her while she kiss her to her forehead. "I think I can trust her..."

"Well see Tanja if she couldn't do anything or to do something stupid. I also want you to call me because I need to go."

I saw that Sylvia was giving the extra phone to her, I couldn't believe that she was start monitoring me, like what she was acting like she was the security guard for Tanja.

"Hey I think that I gotta go all your stuff I did bring it to your bags."

After Sylvia suddenly leaves like that I was like I don't know what I was going to say, I was keep staring to the kid, I didn't know if she's really mine, I couldn't remember what my face looks like to guarantee she's mine.

"So, why do we keep standing like idiots now?" Tanja asks me, while I had to think she has a point, I was immediately going to get her heavy bags.

So we were going to the second room which she was going to sleep there from now on. But there is a lot of pile of unused clothes and other things. I didn't clean the room yet but she has not to complain about it.

"So, I will sleep in the junkyard now?" Tanja asks me sarcastically, but I scratch my head to hear her annoying complaint. "At least you have room there, so you don't have to complain because you have your own bare hands to take it off."

"How can I handle that? I think they are all heavy."

"The heck, you have to see for yourself, man. Do it!"

Then she was trying to carry the box and I thought she was the easy listener at all. But when she tries to carry one of the boxes that are all on the mattress, she suddenly drop the box into my feet.

Ouch! That hurts!

"Why are you being so clumsy?" I ask while she shrugged. "Why don't you help me? Do you think I have super strength?"

"Girls shouldn't complain for carrying the heavy box but most of them complain and ask that for men, girls are turning so lazy!"

"But what are you talking about? Are you saying that your men?"

I put pounded my whole face with my bare hands and she didn't get it right.

"I'm saying that you have to learn to be lazy, that's why I am becoming an independent."

"But I will have to complain that you're not helping me, my mother said that if you did something that I don't like I can complain what you do."

"Fine, I would go to help you then."

I was going inside of the room, to help her as I would need to help her to not complain about it to Sylvia, and then suddenly she shake off the blanket and I cough so hard, I realize that there's a lot of dust there. While I am going to get rid of my older stuff, like some I collect cool badges, that I supposedly make it to be a sticker for my motorcycle.

I did take off the boxes on the mattress there and wipe off the dust in the windows and cabinet using my feather duster that I found under the mattress, I'm sure that second room become really a junkyard, I can get also my cleaning stuff there.

"At least that this room was clean, but I feel that I need some new blankets not some dusty blankets your having."

"Can you always do at least complaining, Tanja?"

"No but I want to make sure I won't get allergies here. It's like dirty in this room. It's like this room was built for 300 years."

"Ha-ha, nice."

"At least I have a room here, but it was nice that to sleep here...I will put my things up, also that my mother would visit me here."

She put her bag on the mattress but let her go to the bathroom because she needed toothpaste because she was living here with me.

"Wow you have a hundreds of toothpaste with different colors..." she quickly notices that. "Of course, that's for my guest."

"Oh I guess you are having many guest, so maybe you always throw party here."

"Yeah sometimes, so you can pick the colors you want."

She picks the color green and red. "I want both of these."

"Ok, from now on you are using that. No toothpaste borrowing."

It's dinner time, when I prepared my own dish but I was eating with Tanja this time, I think she likes the food I prepared, then I was maybe think she likes think, while I was seeing she was keep chewing the food and I did a short smile on her afterwards.

"Why this is taste funny?" she asks while we're both keeping eating. "It's because it's delicious."

"What do you call this dish?"

"This is my own recipe; this is called roasted beef with potatoes with wine sauce."

Eww! She suddenly spits out what she's chewing to my face.

"Don't you know that wine is poison for kids?!" Tanja yelled it to me like it sounds crazy to her.

"I don't find it like that, eat the potatoes then."

"But I don't like potatoes!"

"Then find something you eat, maybe your brain wasn't tiny to identify what to do!"

Then when I already finish eating I have to call Daniella because maybe she would understand my unexpected situation now.

|Daniela, you hear me? I was having a hard situation here. I don't know if you know this is a kind of a similar problem.|

[Manu, what kind of problem are you talking about?]

|Do you know Sylvia at all?|

[Oh yes, the surrogate mother for your kid with Martin, what happened to her?]

|I realize that my daughter is alive, now I realize I couldn't handle her not like this.|

[I thought you can handle to be a mother now.]

|That was only the time when I got married to him, but now I didn't plan it anymore. It was like I didn't expect that this is going to be a nightmare to me!|

"Hello, I'm hungry!" she yelled up.

[Who is that your daughter?]

|Yes, she's Tanja...|

Suddenly she get my phone to put it on my glass of water, I couldn't believe she did that.

"Hey, you have to pay for that!" I was so pissed off, well my phone isn't waterproof.

"But I'm so hungry and you never listen to me!"

"Fine then you can cook by reading the recipe book there on the counter, maybe you are good enough."

"I don't know how to cook yet but you can make me food probably."

Ugh...this time I was giving her chance, since she doesn't know to cook for herself. Well I did cook some lasagna that I followed Daniella's recipe. But she could eat it all if she wants when I served it on the table, she was started smelling it and feels it's delicious.

I think that I was planning to meet her somehow, while Tanja can stay here.

"Okay while you're enjoying eating the whole casserole, well there's I write here the emergency, that's my number I posted in the fridge." I pointed out the note on the fridge which my number was there. "I got it, and then I can call my mother Sylvia either."

"Good, you know what to do. When you get bored then watch TV, sleep when it's time."

"Okay I got that."

Then I was driving to go Daniella's place, when I wanted to talk to her personally. Because of this stupid situation, now that I was going to knock harder to her door, after I enter to their gate.

So no one respond when I was trying to wait for 5 minutes, until when I was seeing in the living room, MAH-GOODNESS! Why they are doing this? Daniela was so shock when I'm seeing her making out.

"Oh come on, don't you know personal privacy damn!" She suddenly gets the bathroom robe on the table to wear it. "This is some kind of problem that I'm handling."

"You can handle it Manu!"

"Are you really actually Daniella??"

"Wow, are you having dementia?" The guy asks me next.

"Shut up and wear some clothes. I don't watch porny channels now!"

"Anyway I am, also try to get to recognize me, like you always been so forgetful about me. But we'll talk somewhere else."

We were going to the kitchen to talk; even we don't need private talk.

"Okay now I admit that I couldn't handle Tanja not like this..."

"Manu, you're a mother. You should do it. I think that she definitely needs you, you know that she's your daughter."

I let out a big sigh "Oh I don't know if I can handle her."

"It's the better thing that at least she has you, you can make her feel better even without Martin. I know it hurts without him, because this is your dream together to have a wonderful child like that. I know it's hard to be a single parent but you have to do it...this is what you wanted before...."

She's right, I think that I have to face the facts those 8 years ago; I was thought that it could be back to normal and I could get back with Martin again. That he would show his love to me again. That never happen when I couldn't never give her a son, I never understand why he never want a daughter in the first place, and I tried what I could.

When I was going back to my place again, nothing changes except that I saw that the lasagna was empty it seems she likes it. Oh well...I'm still desperate without him.