Kairo Centerio:

chapter 2

Kairo centerio

The dining table is once again covered in noise filled with children who are tired due to cleaning; as we managed to finish cleaning the whole orphanage right before lunch

Sister amy smiled at me across their table, she is like a mother to me and a hero most of the time. She always saves me every time from the other children sometimes even from mother superior.

The first person who saw my eyes changed is mother superior, how unlucky of me right? She freak out and screamed and called me a devil when she saw it, she even plan on kicking me out of the orphanage, but sister amy came before she even managed to. She managed to convince her to let me stay. She said to her, that I might be just undergoing some abnormalities in my physical body, and that might be the reason why my eyes change it’s colours sometimes, but what convinced her to make me stay is when sister amy said that the god will never forgive them if they let a child wander around outside with a great possibilities that he will die on the streets due to hunger and well that did the trick. that’s why I am still here being the menace to the society or atleast that how she describe me most of the time.

Even though mother superior let me stay she still believes that I am the spawn of the devil and will cause a lot of trouble. That’s why every time a fight erupts between me and the other children, even though I didn’t start it, mother superior will always put the blame on me.

Even when she’s teaching us when my answer is wrong she smack my hand with a ruler, FIVE TIMES and yet I never seen her do that to the other kids just me, the odd one out of all the others. Lucky for me sister amy is always there by my side.

Sister betty on the other hand she has a very strict personality but she never treats me badly, though she often turns a blind eye every time she sees mother superior accuse me of starting a fight even though she knows I started nothing. 

The children in the orphanage aren’t any better. some of them bullies me for being different and some just stay away from me as far as they can and never interact with me, unless it is needed to and I can’t blame them. I am different, the colour of my eyes is different from everyone else. it looks like  the leaves in the forest painted their colours into my eyes making it green and adding that this eyes changes to red doesn’t make it look normal. A lot of children are afraid of me because of that. I tried playing with them to make them know I am not a monster but it is useless Because well, they don’t want to.

Minsan ay napipilitan lang ang mga ito na isali ako dahil sa pinilit sila ni sister amy at sa mga oras na ganon ni isa sa kanila ay hindi masaya marami ang inis at yung iba naman ay natatakot.

Hindi ko naman sila masisisi kung ayaw nila sakin at mas lalo hindi ko sila masisisi kung takot sila sakin lalo pa't Hindi ka naman kase makakakita ng taong nagiiba ang kulay ng mga mata sa araw araw.

Besides the eyes i can also feel something different in me that all the children and adults here don’t have. I can’t pin point what it is, All I know is sometimes this feelings makes me feel like i don’t belong in any place in this world.

My train of thoughts got block from moving any further by sister Betty’s  voice.

“ pagtapos nyong kumain ay magsipag ligo na kayo at pag tapos magpahinga ay matutulog kayo maliwanag ba?” nagsipag-angal ang lahat ng mga bata matapos marinig ang sinabi nito. Halata sa mga muka nila na hindi nila nagustohan ang narinig

“ Sa ikakabuti rin naman ng kalusugan nyo ang pagtulog ng tanghali kaya ayoko ng makakarinig ng mga angal. nagkakaintindihan ba tayo!” Istriktong pagwika ni sister Betty.

“ opo sister. “  pagsagot ng mga bata bagaman ay sumunod sila halata sa tono ng boses ng mga ito na gusto pa nilang umangal.

Ng makaligo at mapatuyo na ng lahat ang kanilang buhok ay isa isa na kaming pinahiga at pinatulog nila sister Betty at sister Amy sa kwarto.