TAMARA
Just as Mama wanted, Silas and I got engaged only a week after his family visited our house.
Mama was over the moon, especially when Papa called immediately after the engagement to congratulate me.
“Thank you, Papa. See you soon,” I said as I spoke to him on the phone.
“I missed you so much, Tamara. I’ll be there a week before your wedding.”
I wanted to ask him more about his family in Japan. I wanted to know if they had allowed him to come back to the Philippines and what his children there thought about us.
But before I could ask, Mama took the phone from me and continued the conversation with Papa herself.
Mama was happier than I had seen her in a long time after Silas and I got engaged.
I, on the other hand, grew more anxious with each passing day.
I was running out of
