YEARS AFTER THAT WAS THE LAST TIME SHE saw him. When she woke up from his bed, she saw that she was alone, and there was no Nathan around. There was a small note on the bedside, a note telling her that he can’t see her anymore and that they should stop seeing altogether, that what they were doing was not right. That was Hyacinth’s first heartbreak, a null void type of pain. She only saw Nathan again a few months after, it was a family reunion at naimbitahan sila ng mga magulang nila para sa isang dinner party. She didn’t know he would be there, but there he is, like a ghost emerging from her nightmares. He has a lady with him, ipinakilala nitong girlfriend nito sa kanila. She didn’t even finish her meals that time, sinabi lang niya sa pamilya niya na masakit ang tiyan niy

