ROSE
Shin and I got married a week after he proposed to me again. If we were to decide, right after that night we would have gotten married but my brother convinced us to hold the wedding after a week. After all, he said, there were still so many things that we have to seal and finish.
One of those was my identity.
He wanted me to change my last name to Arguelles first before I got married to Shin. He said I deserved to have dad's family name after all. I was a bit hesitant to do it but I eventually figured that it was the right thing to do. My dad would've wanted me to have his last name.
Two days later, I went home to Benguet to visit my family. It's been such a long time since I last saw them and I was very nervous and excited. I wondered how they were doing. Did they miss me? Wa
