Nightlight

Chapter 10

"Mr. Robert?"

"Good to see you Ms. Torres." he said while wearing off his glasses.

"OMG! It's you!"

Naexcite ako kaya napayakap ako sa kanya bigla. I'm so happy to see him again. It's been 5 years since he moved to LA for his musical studies. Mr. Robert is a bestfriend of my papa. Tatlo sila dati eh but when the other one decided to split with them, papa and Mr. Robert also decided to disband. But papa stayed and Mr. Robert went to LA.

He always calling me Miss Torres even though I am not comfortable with that before but now, I love to hear that.

"You've grown up, Miss Torres."

"Of course I am. Papa and mama raised me very well."

"I know Apollo will have a great daughter like you." he tapped my head.

"Hihihi. Great but not talented." dismayang sabi ko.

"What do you mean?"

"Well..." I started as I start walking too. "Unlike papa, singing isn't good to me at all."

"Wait, you can't sing?! "

"Hey! Don't shout! It's embarrassing to say this but yeah. I'm bad at singing."

He chuckled.

"Wow Miss Torres. I'm surprised with that."

"Hey don't piss me off."

"Ohh I'm sorry. Well, how was your mama?"

I took a deep breath and answered his question.

"She's still the way she was. A quiet and caring mother, of course."

"I know it's hard to your mama about the death of Apollo." he said.

I remained silent. Even me, it's hard to accept the death of my papa. I always have a great time with him. He never failed to show his pure love to us. He really is a great father.

We keep walking through the street. Hearing those vehicles noise and people.

"When did you get here?" tanong ko sa kanya.

"Before your school started." he said. "Javellana wants me to have private lessons with Nightlight. About the correct tiempo, notes and even the perfect songs for their competition. A vocal coach, in short."

"Seryoso? Di ka man lang tumawag samin edi sana nagpawelcomeback party kami para sayo Mr. Robert."

"Haha! Silly kid. It doesn't matter anyway."

"Well, how was it?"

"How was what?"

"Teaching those jerks."

"Are you close with them?"

"Not really. But I used to."

"Ohh~ Now I know why."

"Know what?"

Tumawa lang siya. Sinamaan ko siya ng tingin na mas lalong ikinatawa niya. He's been always like this and he never change at all.

Papa and Mr. Robert are childhood bestfriends. Kinwento sakin ni papa dati na, kakalipat lang nina papa noon at si Mr. Robert ang unang nagapproach kay papa. He was very shy since he's a new kid in their village. Mr. Robert always goes to papa's house and asked him to play with him. Of course, papa really love to play that's why he said yes. At doon nagsimula ang pagkakaibigan nila papa at Mr. Robert.

At nung elementary sila, they're both curious about the musical instruments. So they did a private lessons with their musician teacher. As they grew older, mas lalo silang nagsumikap to know the right note to pick in every songs at yun ang bonding nilang dalawa. When they're both in 3rd year college, a fresh high school graduate want to join the collaboration of papa and Mr. Robert. Nadismaya ang freshmen dahil sinabi ni papa na hindi sila kabilang sa mga group singersin the musical club.