Lumipas ang ilang minuto'y tumahan na ako. Inabutan naman nila ako ng tubig atsaka ako binigyan ng matamis nilang ngiti. "I always wanted to see you and your mom, but I couldn't. I couldn't face you because of what happened to your brother. I don't know how will I explain it. I don't have the guts to face you." They said, and after, we're hugged by the deafening silence for a second. "Did you know about Jade?" I ask, shifting the topic. Bahagya namang kumunot ang kanilang noo. "Jade?" They definitely don't know her, just like what I thought. "Mom's pregnant when you and Timothy left. She wanted to tell you that she's pregnant but you didn't came home that evening. And we never thought that you wouldn't come home to us for more than fifteen years." Aniko na may bahid ng pait sa aking

