Returning the Favor

Prologue

My mother would often tell me that a simple act of kindness will never go unnoticed. Do good and good will surely be done to you. What comes around, goes around. The rule of reciprocation.

I am also repeatedly told and trained to give the best that I can not just for self gain but for the benefit of my fellowmen as well.

My Mom is a government worker and one of the employees of our municipality specializing in social welfare and development. She stands as both our mother and father because of the untimely death of my dad.

We may not be very well off but we have enough to sustain our day to day expenses. We are asked to be thrifty, though.

We would only be able to purchase new sets of fine clothing during the graduation season and if we garner scholastic awards. That's why, I always make it a goal to excel. It's the best way I could do to have my mother be proud of me.

I am the eldest of four children. My siblings are all schooling. We have a variety of age gap that the ones next to me are still in elementary specifically Grade 6 and the last is in Grade 4.

Yes, we have a twin. My very active and hyper enthusiastic sisters. And our youngest is the only son.

We are all light skinned unlike our mother who is bordering to a dark color. She said that we got it from our Dad who is a half-Korean.

We also have curly hairs usually at the tip while my Mom have a very wonderful mane that I ever got to hold. Again, she said that we got it from our Dad.

Looking out the window, I heaved a sigh and tuned in to the music of the environment.

"Tip, tip, tip, tip, tip, tip. TAP!"

That's the rain.

The very angry rain that is making me both curious and furious.

Because the rain has done nothing but to cause my unhappiness. However, it is also on this rainy day that my life started to have an extraordinary hue that is not gray.

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