Fall For You

THIRD FALL

Seira

“Pip-squeak.”

I shifted my glance from my laptop towards my room’s door. There I saw Kuya Eros carrying a pile of comforter using his one arm and my favorite mug with the other. He was smiling at me like always, so I automatically closed the laptop on my study table and ran towards him to open the door wider.

“Is that hot choco?” I asked him while looking at my black mug with a shooting star design in front.

“Uh-huh. Don’t want you to spit milk on my face again like what you did before. Tsk tsk,” he said. He turned his back towards me and continued. “You know what to do. Hurry up now, I saw on the internet that there would be a meteor shower tonight.”

I imagined my eyes shine brighter when I heard that. I felt excitement rush through my body as I ran towards my cabinet and grabbed a star printed comforter. I also took my favorite blanket and pillow before going out of my room and following Kuya.

“Star gazing again?” I heard Manang Fely asked when she saw me walking upstairs towards the attic. It seems like she just finished changing the water inside my mom’s favorite vase. It was filled with fresh lavenders, one of the flowers my mom grows in our garden.

“Yes, Manang. Kuya said there’ll be a meteor shower tonight!” I said while smiling from ear to ear. I’ve never seen a meteor shower before, because I always fell asleep even before the first meteor falls.

“Oh, is that so? I hope this time you’ll be able to watch it. Just don’t stay up too late or else you’ll catch a cold.”

I energetically nodded, walked closer to her, tip-toed and kissed her cheek. She giggle because of that and pinched my cheek. “Love you, Manang!”

“Love you too, anak. Go now. Eros will definitely be moody again if you made him wait. You now that kid, he’s very short-tempered just like your mom,” she said while holding my shoulders from the back and gently pushing me further up. “But well, he’s still such a very sweet and caring person too, just like Elise .”

“But he’s still moody, though,” I said. Manang made a ‘shh’ sign and just laughed. 

“Have fun, Seira.”

“Thank you, Manang!”

After she gave me a peck on my forehead, I hurried and reached the attic. The light was on, and lots of bookshelves welcomed me. Most of them are my dad’s, and Kuya always say that I am a book worm just like him. True enough, on my eighteen years of existence, I can say that I have already read most of the books we have here in the attic which my dad collected for almost all of his life.

“Pipsqueak! What’s taking you so long? Is the ladder too long and big for you to climb? Even a turtle can walk faster than you!” I heard Kuya shouted from the roof. I grimaced and wanted to stomp on my way up the wooden ladder hanging at the right corner of the attic, but decided not to do so because mom and dad are probably sleeping already.

It’s almost 9pm already, after all.

“Just because you’re a gorilla, that doesn’t mean everyone can walk like you do!” I talked back at him as soon as I opened the trapdoor that leads to our house’s roof. I saw that he is already sitting on his comforter while holding my mug.