om open, then Sarah woke me

ning, Sar

ee-length white skirt and a short-sleeve butto

p this early, but I need to

" I ask. I scratch

eacher."

a teacher that I will

read the books we

eaves my room, and I cannot remem

nto my pancakes. Since I will not be going to school this morning, I did what Sarah told me. I am so happy that I don't have to think about school or have time to thin

eally want to read some of the stories, but if I don't have homework, Mom used to

bout a seventeen-year-old boy who was a geek and becomes famous. Then there was

to read novels for my age, but this time maybe it will

decide to check the huge refrigerator. Then I see the menudo that looks great, but the grease is molded everywhere on top. After preheating it in the microwave, smelling the hot meal makes my mouth water. Sarah is no

eady with Sarah. I found myself standing in the middle of the

creamed at Kuya Adonis for teaching me how to play guitar and not mathematics. I was so mad and embarrassed at her that day: she furiously destroyed the guita

he ever found out he was near me again, she would call the cops for kidnapping me. Kuya Adonis is 5 years older than me, but he never

taught me. It is a song called 'This City Never Sleeps' by Jason Walker. I don't know him, but Jason Walker is one of Kuya Adonis' favorite ar

he's no help. I always think, if I grow up, will I remember dad ever being part of my family? It's sad if I don't remember him, though he's never really been part of my life. Time and time agai

he door opens. I look at the clock hanging on the wall

y for..."

in the air. I stop talk

ay everything in this

and found mys

. "I was so worried when I didn't se

rry for

on the piano stool a

o much for collec

Those are from the wo

. She looks around, putting her shoulder bag down on the floor, and then she stands and walks to the drawer by the window, and then she t

r name?" I

iful; she is wearing a floral d

autiful."

h says. "Her na

ious, how did

ou are a curious girl, curiou

t a bad

ar." She says a

e you and her, care about the peopl

care for the peop

dedicate their lives to doing something for the people, for example, the kind people, I know they are doing that because

, she was not a runaway kid like us. I was working at a senior citizen hospital, and she was one of the doctors there. We became close, and th

d me that she was longing for her daughter. That was why she liked me: because I reminded her o

d on her chest and wipe the tears for her. I want to ask about her past life, but I know she doesn't

d to her daug

d when she married her foreigner b

died?"

ds her