My Star

Prologue

I was stuck on my own little world while looking at the sky. It was gloomy. No stars tonight which means there's a high probability that its gonna rain. Not that I'm complaining or anything.

I like it when it rains, specially if its night time. I don't know but it helps me sleep.

I stood up from sitting on a wooden bench.

Oras na para umuwi.

I took my bag and was ready to go outside people's park and look for a jeep.

People's park is a great place. You can find many interesting things like native looking statues.

I wanna stay there, but it is almost closing time, and I need to go home or Nanay's really gonna be mad at me for staying too long.

After a couple of minutes, nakakita na rin ako ng masasakyan na jeep. But looking for a jeep is not as hard as when you need to squeeze your but in order to sit inside. There's just too many people.

An hour or more passed at dumating na rin ako (sawakas) sa destinasyon 'ko. Sumakay ako ng tricycle at handa ng umuwi.

When I got to our house, It was awfully quite. The lights were off.

It was almost 11pm. Usually my parents would go outside and talk. They don't do it quite often, because of me telling them its bad to stay up till midnight. My brother on the other hand, doesn't listen. He would stay up till midnight playing video games.

But every time he would, he always make sure to open the lights on his room. Which tonight he didn't.

I opened the door. It's not locked. I switch the lights open and found nothing but silence.

"Nay? Tay?" I closed the door after going in.

Pumunta 'ko sa kusina at uminom ng tubig.

Maybe tulog na sila? Nanay and tatay would be, but totally not my little brother.

I stopped drinking when I heard a loud sound coming from the bathroom.

"Jo?" There was no response.

Baka magnanakaw? Or baka tinatakot lng ako ni Jo.

Slowly. I opened the bathroom door.

"Jo, I swear kung tinatakot mo lng ako, hindi kita--" At this moment I thought, kung pwede ko lng sana itigil ang oras at ibalik sa nakaraan. Ginawa ko na.

I dropped the glass-- I didn't know I was still holding. It shattered on the floor, creating a large sound that made the person--The person that I looked up to. The person that treated me like a princess. The person that I thought was my hero--looked at my direction with blood on his face.

He looked at me dead in the eyes. He was expressionless. Other than that. He has blood all over his shirt and pants and.... He's holding a bloody knife.

Stuned and shocked, I turn and looked at the bathtub.

Si nanay...

She was swimming on her blood, eyes opened. I stood there watching my nanay.

She's dead... She's-

I screamed and everything was almost like on fast forward. Police was taking my tatay. My little brother was crying beside me.

She's dead...

On that day it looked like my nanay also brought my soul with her to heaven.

She's dead.....And I am too.