Best friends

Chapter 2

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After the exam, we have given 2 weeks of sembreak to unwind and to rest our mind from school. They want us to be ready for the second semester because it is not gonna be easy. On the last 2 weeks of our last month is college, we will be assigned to either clinics or hospitals and I really want to be in hospital 'cause they know I want to be a surgeon and I really really need to be in the operating room to see myself and learn about everything.

Ofcourse the other courses also had this and Nikolai as an Civil Engineering student, they will be assigned in a different sites. Ibig sabihin lang non ay hindi na kami magsasabay papasok dahil iba ang lugar na pupuntahan namin and we won't be able to see each other the whole day in that 2 weeks, depende nalang kung isa sa amin ang biBWISITA.

  "Where are you going to spend your sembreak? This time you've given 2 weeks." Mom asked over the dinner. Nung 1st to 3rd year college kase eh 1 week lang ang ibinigay sa amin na sembreak.

"I don't know either." I sigh.

"Why? Hindi ba kayo nag-usap ni Nikolai? Dati lagi kayong nagbabakasyon."

  "We didn't talk about it. Siguro, we'll spend our sembreak at home." Sabi ko sabay subo.

"Again, I'm sorry. I won't be able to spend my time with you during your sembreak. I have a business trip on Monday." Mom said looking at me.

  "Saan?"

"Mexico and France."

"Mm. That's great. By the way, ilang araw kang mawawala?" I asked, sana naman isang linggo lang.

"2 weeks. I'm sorry Rania."

Beat.

"That's fine mom. Para din naman sa atin kaya ayos lang and I don't want you to cancel your trip. I know how much you treasure dad's company."

  "No sweetie, you're my priority and you're the most precious I have that I really treasure. It's just that, your dad's family is the one who sent me there." She sigh.

"Mom, it's alright. Now's your time to shine, show them that you can expand the company in any different places. Prove them that you can handle everything despite of being raised in a middle class family. They don't have the right to belittle anyone." I said like I am talking to a friend, well she's my friend after all. Friend and mother at the same time.

"Oh my ghad, you're so grown up sweetie. Thank you, thank you for encouraging and I promise... when I came back, it will be a success business trip." She stood up and hug me from behind.

  "I'm just here mom, I am your number one fan and supporter." I smiled.

"I am so happy and thankful that God had given me such a beautiful, wonderful, amazing and an understanding daughter like you. I love you sweetie." She whisper and kissed my head.

  "I love you mom. I am me because you're my mother."

"True." We both chuckle and she went back to her chair and we both continue sharing how our days went by while we're eating. I can call it 'Mother and Daughter bonding'.

My father's family can't accept my mom for their son because Mom is not rich and she can't provide any share in their company. They even engaged dad to a successful woman but he didn't marry her. On the day of their wedding, dad didn't show up-- instead, he went to mom and they migrate to Canada and they live their kaya doon ako naipanganak. Bumalik kami rito ni Mom nung namatay si Dad, mom respect his family kaya iniuwi namin ang katawan ni Daddy at dito ibinurol. I can still remember how Ximenes family hated and cursed my mom because they blamed her for everything. Ngayon ko lang naisip na, paano niya naging kasalanan na namatay si Dad? It was a plane accident and many lives had been ended, ibig sabihin ba kasalanan din yon ni Mommy? They're being nonsense, wala lang silang mapagbibintangan kaya si Mommy ang naging puntirya.