CHAPTER 13
"Yuan, kailan ka mag-aasawa?" tanong ni Clevi sa kapatid.
"Kapag nag-asawa ka na."
Napahalakhak si Clevi sa naging sagot ni Yunna. But Yuanna stayed silent and cool.
"You're forty-five years old, Yuan!"
"You're forty-seven,"
"So, wait. What's your point on what you've said, you'll gonna get married if I did?"
"When you are ready to quit us. Especially me and Carlisle." Tanging sagot niya at saka nagpatuloy sa pagkain.
"But what if I'm not yet ready to quit, but it has to happen?"
"Then, quit, kuya."
"Who will be with you?"
"Me,"
"Yuan, hindi kita kayang iwanan mag-isa."
"There's Malone not yet married. You say that to him. I can handle myself."
Clevi breath so hard and sighed.
"If it's already my time, I can leave Lalie because she'll no longer be alone. But you, Yuan, no one has always been there with you."
"Kuya, you sound like you're gonna die." Natatawa, ngunit malungkot ang mga matang sagot ni Yuanna.
"Bro, walang ganiyan, bro." Tinapik-tapik ni Malone si Clevi sa likod.
As expected, people always have a time limit here on earth. Pero maswerte yung ibang tao, wala silang limitasyon. Namamatay na lang dahil sa katandaan.
Death has no age. Either you're a new born child or a one-hundred-year-old person.
Kami ni Clevi, we don't have a chance to live longer than we want.
He can't live until Yuanna dies. And I can't live until Amethon will be gone, too, and that is the most heartbreaking part of being ill.
"Hindi pa ngayon, pero siguro malapit na. Hindi pa naman ako nanghihina, pero siguro biglaan na lang."
"Kuya,"
"You saw me in pain back then during my chemotherapies. You prayed enough, Yuan."
"Not enough for you to live longer." Aniya at sabay alis ng dinning room.
"Dude."
"Keiron," his eyes were a little wet.
"Ako 'yong taong gustong mahalin ni Yuan buong buhay niya. But you are the only man she wants to live longer than her life."
"Ano? Ikaw? Gustong mahalin ng kapatid ko? Ha! Hindi imposible.."
"She wants to donate her heart to you-"
"Sapak, gusto mo?"
"You're a family of sacrificing hearts." Natatawa niyang sabi. Half fake.
"Lalie's- Damiel's-"
"Kanino ba talaga?" pagsingit ni Malone sa usapan.
"Tita Amelrisse is donating her heart to my mom.
Dahan-dahan akong napalingon kay Ezra na diretso lang ang tingin kay Keiron.
Losing a mom for a second time must've hurt so bad. Because I experienced it. I lost my Mom at a young age same as him. I lost my Mama when I turned a woman and he is about to lose his Mom.
It was so absurd that you will question yourself, 'Am I meant to lose a mother?'
But then, mothers don't die. Mayhap, they multiply. Once you lost a real mother, another will come. And when you lose that another Mom, another another will come, then repeat 'til you're the one who'll die.
