Secretly Yours

CCXXVI

INT. BEDROOM - MORNING

7:28 a.m.

Mikey
Good morning, little love. You're already approaching four weeks in a couple of days. How are you there? Are you also comfortable inside Mommy's belly?

He chuckled.

Mikey
Sorry, if you want a pillow, 'di kita mabibigyan. You'd have to be comfortable there all by yourself muna. Then once you come out, we'll buy you a bed and lots of pillows and the softest sheets and blankets there is and I'm going to give you lots of hugs and I'll probably teach you how to swim para hindi ka afraid sa ocean like Mommy.

Do you know she's afraid of big waves?

Robin
Ayos ah?
Porket natutulog ako?

Mikey
Gising ka na pala.

Robin
Alis d'yan.

Mikey
No. It's Daddy and baby's morning routines. Little love hasn't been caught up yet. It's day 4 of great white shark lessons.

I'm about to tell her why great white sharks are called great white sharks.

Robin
Her?

Mikey
I feel like she's a girl.

Robin
Talaga?

Mikey
Yup. I don't know why.
But I just feel like she's a girl.

Robin
Paano kung boy si baby?

Mikey
Then babawi na lang ako once we know.

Robin
Hmm . . . sige na, k'wentuhan mo na kami. Bakit great white shark 'yong tawag sa kanila?

His smile grew wider, eyes even sparkling.

Mikey
It's because of their underbellies. Color white kasi. And then their top parts are mostly in different kinds of gray tapos minsan color brown. But their scientific name is Carcharodon carcharias. They live up to 70 years and their size is as long as a bus!

Robin
Ha? Bus?

Mikey
Yup. Because they're huge! Up to 21 feet long.

Robin
Ang laki!
Tapos gusto mo makilangoy sa kanila?

Mikey
Yup—

Robin
BAWAL.

Mikey
But—

Robin
Bawal.

Mikey
Love?
It's my dream to swim with them.

Robin
O, e ipa-CGI na lang natin 'yan.
Bawal na.

Mikey
Bawal na?

Robin
Anong why?
Gusto mong atakihin ako?
Paano kapag nilapa ka bigla? Sige nga.