Kay Tagal Kitang Hinintay

(A/N: The plot is solely based upon Sponge Cola's music video 'Kay Tagal Kitang Hinintay' (both the album version and the acoustic/alternate ending version). Please read! And comment. Thanks.)

A long, winding road in a windy, idyllic view of a seemingly sleepy town. Jeepneys, buses and trucks course through the long stretch of the highway. Four men were waiting in a small waiting shed by the same dirt road. Clad in their best suits, the boys were looking out in the distance. One of them had a guitar case with him. The other was standing by the road, his arm stretched out with his thumb up. The rest were just sitting, their eyes fixed elsewhere.

Jeepneys, buses and trucks had passed by. No-one wanted to give these boys a lift. Under the hot, summer sun, the man waited, almost brought down by the weight of waiting and desperation. Finally, a white pick-up truck stopped by them and asked them where they were going.

"Sa Sitio Cogon po," answered the guy, his forehead creasing from the morning sun. His friends walked to him to see what the driver had for them. At last, they were given the pickup space at the back. They propped themselves up in the back, sitting on the warm floor. Their slacks won't give in to them sitting cross-legged. Feeling somewhat constricted, of course. But the relief that the Good Samaritan gave them was something new.

**

In the same sleepy town, that same morning, a couple was talking by the wharf of the sea. It was the Pacific Ocean right in front of them, ever so tranquil in the bright of the morning. The wife looked away worryingly to the sea, while her husband, a fisherman by the looks of it, came to her and kissed her cheek.

"Buntis ako," said the wife, worry catching her throat. "Paano na 'to?"

The fisherman seemed unfazed by the news. He smiled and faced his wife.

"Bakit ka nag-aalangan? Bigay s'ya sa atin ng Diyos."

The wife suddenly smiled and hugged her husband, thanking him for support. In her mind, she was worried about how they will raise their child in such conditions. They were a poor couple: her husband is a fisherman who works so hard catching fish and little crabs and sells them to the market. She, on the other hand, was a laundrywoman who suddenly stopped work because of the pregnancy. But with support her husband showed her, it was a glimmer of hope she saw. And they both returned to their homes.

Along the way, an elderly woman was pacing briskly in front of the house. She looked equally worried as the wife had been earlier. The wife asked her if there was something wrong.

"Nanaginip ako! May darating na nilalang dito sa bayan natin! Sila'y mga ---"

A young woman covered the elderly woman's mouth, suddenly. Then she looked at the curious couple.

"Pasensya na po kayo," she said, looking slightly embarrassed. "Si Lola kasi. Kung ano-ano ang sinasabi."

The couple nodded as they left. They didn't want to hear anything else about anything.

**

The men arrived at Sitio Cogon. They thanked the driver who brought them to the place and they were left behind. One of them threw the luggage into the rice fields.

"You should've thrown that to the sea," said the man with the guitar. "The sea is just close by."

The man who threw the luggage away gave his friend a confident look.

"Nah. It will be taken to the sea, trust me, Armo."

Armo smiled. "Sure enough, it will be, TMac."