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Chapter 5: Sudden

Chapter 5

Margoe's POV

" Manong! Dito nalang po!" Ngumiti ako sakanya. Ngumiti din ito pabalik sakin. It was a fake smile. Kitang-kita ko ang paghihirap sa mga mata niya. " Salamat pala manong ah!" Agad ko'ng binaba ang mga gamit ko at inayos ko sa cabinet. I just brought few clothes, sabi nila they'll offer clothes for the servants. Nag-iisang linggo ako'ng bumyahe dito kaya pagod rin ako.

Controlling my emotion is the golden rule I have to follow in this estate. School I suppose. For the rest of my senior high semester, I am willing to have a scholarship in this school. It was light when I arrive, and a beautiful sun was gilding everything around me. I felt a little cold, my clothes were grubby, but my, soul was rejoicing.

Naglakad ako papunta sa isang bookstore malapit sa skwelahan ko. I noticed this bookshop cause they say that it specializes in occult studies. It has never advertised in newspapers or magazines, and the people who go there do so on the recommendation of others. The owner is glad to have such a select,specialist clientele. Even so, the bookshop is always full.

From then on, whenever I could , I would go there to look at the books, but I never brought any because they were all imported and very expensive. Dati pa lang ay palagi na akong bumabasa ng mga libro, especially novel fictions. I would leaf through them, studying the designs and symbols in some of the books, and intuitively tuning in to the vibration of all that accumulated knowledge.

Books were safer. The shelves contained reprints of treatises written hundreds of years ago. Maliban sa pagpunta ko dito sa bookstore ay may ibang rason din ako-----to observe the other customers. Sometimes I would pretend to read some respectable alchemical treatise, when I was, in fact, scrutinizing the men and women, usually older than me, who frequented the shop and who knew what they wanted and always went to the right shelf. Some looked very wise, capable of awakening forces and magics of which mere normal person knew nothing.

I noticed, too, that the most regular costumers always had a word with the owner. Kung ano-ano lang ang pinag-uusapan nila. Narinig ko ding may nagsabi kung paano i correct ng pronounciation sa ritual words. It reminds me of a peculiar dream of mine about a month ago....

FLASHBACK~~~~

"You're pathetic! Mang agagaw ka nang asawa tapos may lakas ka pa'ng harapin ako?! Alam mo ba'ng may anak yung tao at asawa tapos nilalandi mo pa din? So sinong walang puso dito Martha?!" Patuloy lang ang pagbuhos ng luha ni Emily.

"Wag mo lang damayin yung pamilya ko dito Emily--" Emily stopped her in the mid of her sentence.

"How dare you interrupt me!" Shouted Emily. " You'd better buck your ideas up, Wench!"

"Mommm!! Dadd.....pleasee.....Emily...gagawin ko lahat basta wag mo lang damayin sila." Pagmamakaawa ni Martha.

"Oppss?! Who do you think i am? Maid that can follow your pathetic orders? You are nothing but a waste! Magalang ka naman ah?! San yung mahinhin at mabait na Martha na narinig ko sa buong probinsya." Sabi ni Emily.

Hinila ni Emily si Martha papunta sa may bilog tsaka inilabas nila ang iba pang kapamilya ni Martha na kadugo nya.

"Oh my God..Mere? Bethel? Wla silang kinalaman dito kung kaya't pakawalan nyo sila Emily!." Shouted Martha.

Nakita kong patuloy lang ang pag buhos ng luha nina mama at papa. Dahan-dahan akong pumunta sa kanila at bumulong....

"Maayos na sya ma, pa, nandon sya nakatira sa kakilala ko." Bulong ni Martha sa magulang nya. Natigilan ako ng may tumogtug na musika. Nakakatakot ang tono nito. Funeral bells?