The Substitute Wife

Next morning, Mia slowly opens her eyes, she turns side to side to check her surrounding. (Hospital?) She tries to get up. She groans. Hiro wakes up and sees her awake. He helps her sits up.

She didn"t realize it"s Hiro. "Thank you." She sighs. She turns to her side and her eyes widen. "You—"

"Are you hurt anywhere?" "Why are you here?" He got irritated. "What"s with that? What"s wrong with taking care of my wife?"

She looks away. "I"m not your wife." "You d.a.m.n —" She looks at him coldly. He was taken back.

"Leave me alone." She turns her gaze to the window. Hiro stands up. "Fine." He toss the chair aside and left the room.

She sighs. She leans back to her pillow. (I want to go home.) She grabs a blank piece of paper and a pen. She doodles to pa.s.s time.
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Hiro exits the hospital and heads to the car. He gets in and got all mad. "d.a.m.n. She just—arghhh." He mess up his hair getting all irritated by her.

He stays in the car, debating if he should leave or stay. He notices a woman who looks familiar. "Who"s that?" His driver answers, "Lady"s mother." "Ah right."

Hiro sense trouble. He gets out of the car and follow her.
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Mia continues to doodle on her paper. "Mia." She turns and sees her mother by the doorway. "...Mother." She puts her pen down on the table. She turns to her mother.

Her mother walks in and puts something on the table. Mia takes a look and it"s a airplane tickets. She turns to her mother.

"You need to leave here and don"t come back." Mia lowers her head. "Because of you, everything is a mess."

She whispers, ".....won"t leave." "What?" She looks at her mother in the eye. "I said I won"t leave." "Mia!" "I have my own life and my own job here. I won"t toss my career away." "Career? Cartoonist? Ha. Don"t be silly. That"s just a poor decision you choose to follow."

She bit her lower lip. "Would you leave or would you rather cut ties with your family?" She grips her hand.

"She"s not going anywhere, old lady." They both turns and sees Hiro by the doorway. Her mother startles, "Hiro." Hiro walks in and sits on the bed, holding Mia"s hand.

He looks at his mother in law in the eye. "She"s not going anywhere under my authority." He then takes the tickets and rips it.

"Hiro. She"s—" "your daughter. Mia. I already knew." Mia looks at him. "What you knew? How—" "on the wedding day. Plus...how long you"re going to deceive me?"

He glares at her. "Lying to me that the person I met is Maya, when it"s Mia." Mia looks confused. (We..met before?)

She tries to remember but she couldn"t recall. "Maya is your wife." "No. Mia is. Hector, show it to the old lady here."

Hector appears and gives Mia"s mother a look at their marriage certificate. It clearly written Mia. "How.." "Simple. I investigated." She looks up at Mia and Hiro.

"From now on, shes my family. If you want to cut ties with her, then please do so. If you"re just causing trouble to my wife here, I won"t sit back and watch."

Her mother turns her heels and gives back the marriage certificate back to Hector. She walks out of the door.

Mia then pulls her hand back. She looks away. "Leave." Hiro got mad. "W-What? I help you out because you won"t say anything back to her."

She looks at him. "She"s my mother." "She hits you, bad mouth you, yet you still call her mother?" "Of course you don"t know what it was like since you"re born with a silver spoon."

Hiro stands up. "Woman." "I didn"t ask you to help me. I can take care of myself just fine." Hiro heads to the door. "You"re right, I shouldn"t." He left.

That night, Hiro went out drinking. The women at the bar spotted him and approach him. "Hiro. It"s been a long time since we last saw you." "I"ve been busy." "So you"re free?" "I wouldn"t be here if I wasn"t."

One of the girls leans in for a kiss from Hiro. Hiro was about to but all he can think of is Mia. He push the woman away from him. "Hiro? What"s wrong?" Hiro gets up and left the bar.
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Mia couldn"t sleep. So she walks out of her room to take a walk. She tries to put her thoughts together. (I won"t leave. I won"t leave them behind....Hiro...his painful expression....)

As she thinks about Hiro, she looks up and sees him standing in front of her. (Why is he still here?) She turns her heels and walks away.

He runs after her and blocks her path. "Can you stop?! Just leave me alone!" "I don"t want to." "Why?! I"m nothing but a hindrance. Leave me alone."

She walks pa.s.s him but he grabs her hand and pulls her close to him. "Let go. I said let go." He puts her hand on his heart. "I won"t let go. No matter how times you tell me to leave, I won"t leave. I only want you. Only you. You"re the only one who would make me go crazy. I"m really in love with you." Her eyes widen.

She was taken back how serious he is. She forgot that there"s people watching them. She got embarra.s.sed.

"I-I got it. Let go." "I don"t want to." "Let go! They"re looking at us." "Who cares." She kicks him on the leg. "Ow!" She quickly runs away.