When Seatiel’s breathing was already stable, I concluded that he was asleep. Dahan-dahan kong tinanggal ang magkasalikop naming mga kamay, hindi niya kasi binitiwan ang kamay ko at nakalapat pa ang mga iyon sa kaniyang dibdib. He didn’t really want me to leave, huh?
But I needed to leave him and my room for thirty minutes. Babalik din ako kaagad pagkatapos ko siyang maipagluto ng makakain niya paggising niya mamaya. He needed to eat so that he could take a medicine for his fever. Hindi ko pa alam kung ano ang dahilan kung bakit siya nagkasakit, but I’d make sure that I would ask him later what did he do and why he caught a fever.
“You don’t have work today, Ma?” I asked when I saw my mom watching a show on the TV in our living room.
Umangat ang tingin niya sa akin. I was on the last sta
