TILL 1969

MUNTING BINIBINI

2019
(PILIPINAS)

"Anong ngalan mo?" bahagya niyang pagkabigkas habang hawak ang isang notebook kung saan niya sinusulat ang mga bagong salitang natututunan niya....

Medyo natawa si joel...

Habang naghihintay para sa next shoot ng dalaga para sa isang endorsement....ay nakaupo sila at naghihintay...

"Anong" he slowly mouthed while Franki followed....

"Pangalan"

Franki nodded by every word that joel repeats for her....

"mo"

Franki smiled....

"Anong Pangalan mo" it sounded right but still had that accent when Franki said it....

Joel just nodded that franki wrote it on her notebook.....

"Hey" Joel nudge her a little but she just scribbled on her notes...

"You mention something earlier about a dream?"

Franki raise her head a little and lean her head towards Joel....

"Yeah"

Franki close her notes....

Napabuntong hininga ang dalaga at tila napaisip....

"It was vague but quite familiar"

Joel look at Franki...

"You seem to be having those dreams a lot lately"

"Yeah, i guess so too"

She sighed...

"Maybe because i'm being home sick?"

Joel scrub off her hair...

"Silly"

They both laugh.....

' Actually that dream has been appearing ever since i don't know...when i had that minor accident in Australia? The dream was like....smuggy? Im wearing a dress....at first i didnt know what that dress was until i saw an old photo of my mom wearing the same style of dress...she told me it was barot saya....'

After some hectic and tiring day of shooting some endorsements she finally went back to her condo.......

She place down her bag and remove her coat on the side of the bed....

She roll up the curtain to show the whole view.....

Why did she went here in the first place?

In her Mother's hometown....

Philippines....

Australia was cold....New Zealand also....

But Philippines?

It was warm....Really warm.

The moment she step on this land in an instant it felt really warm....

But not the kind of warm that you feel in the weather but it's the kind of warmth where in it felt so familiar and it felt like home...

"How Are you feeling anak?"

In an instant she smiled when she heard her mother's voice in the voice messenger...when she press it....

"Hey! Wanna hang?"

Napailing si Franki ng marinig na ang boses ni Maza Sa voice messenger....

Maza really left several messages for her while she's out...

Franki lie down on the bed while holding the telephone....