"What? Seriously?" He could not believe what he heard. "I guess you're just kidding?"
"Do I look like I'm kidding?" I could not move from the stand because of a mixture of shock, pain and disbelief in what was happening. With everything mommy told me. In his anger and rejection of me.
"Mommy ..." my tears continued as I tried to follow her after she turned her back on me. But in the dimness of my eyes and weakness my knees only softened there.
I took the bus ride back to manila with a heavy heart. I don't know if pregnancy involves being overly emotional or if the words I received from mommy were really just that painful. I was crying the whole trip back. The few passengers on the bus were still staring at me but I didn’t care. And I never thought that a one hour ride could be painfully
