THE following days went like a blur. Alas needed to be in Manila for another congressional sessions. He’d be staying there for quite a long time, maybe two weeks or more and I’d be missing him so bad. Kaya palagi kong niri-raid ang kwarto niya ng mga polos and sweatshirts niya. I sometimes slept in his room too.
Dapat ko na yatang sanayin ang sarili ko na palaging wala si Alas sa bahay. Afterall, I could not stop him from doing the thing that he loved. Politics would forever be part of him, it was him. if I truly want to be with him, I should also learn to live with politics.
Back in Negros, during election season, I would always beg my lolo not to run for office anymore, yet I always failed to convince him. He was too eager to serve his people and he always proved to me that he was mea
