The trees we passed stunned me as the cold wind hit my face now. It hit us at night because we were heading north. And Marshall has a rest house in Olonggapo, and that’s where we’re going now. He said it was quiet there, there was no noise in his rest house, and it’s been a long time since I was away from home. Those weeks feel like a year to me. I wanted to leave then. If I only knew that Marshall could get me out of the house, he would have taken care of the former. It wasn’t that I was almost crazy. Only then did he show up for me. My father gave this rest house, he told me, so my mom and him stay there when they suddenly go on vacation, “he said without looking at me.” Mama and Papa used to have a vacation, but it’s just a show to say that their relationship is perfect, but you kno

