Daniel, who is now 10 years old, stood staring at his mother, who seemed to cry in silence alone in his room. His gaze seemed empty, claustrophobic, attacking his chest. Daniel knows everything, knows why the mother is crying.
He starts moving from where he stands, walks into his room and locks it. The strong Daniel now cries, he is weak of his mother. She didn't want her mother to be sad and worried, because she loved her.
"Patawarin mo ako, ina, patawarin mo ako.." Daniel, Maria Calinao's little man, is now crying in his dark room.
Two months have passed. Now Daniel stands still while staring blankly at his mother's coffin. It's claustrophobic, it's really claustrophobic. Daniel wanted to cry, but tears didn't want to come out. His heart is now completely broken, the woman he loves so much has now gone far from his arms.
"It hurts so much, mother.. To coincide with that, her tears fell down her cheeks.
Daniel hugs his body while sinking his face between the knees. It's been two days since Daniel's been laying low in his room. Katherine was a friend of Mary's mother Daniel, who was worried about her son.
"Daniel, hey. With patience, Katherine persuaded Daniel to get out of his room immediately.
"Son, eat a little. I don't want you to get sick, you're the legacy of my best friend Maria... Hi, hi. Daniel... Auntie, please, son." Katherine couldn't hold back her tears. Clothed, looking at Daniel's still standing in his room.
Click
Katherine suddenly turned her head, and her eyes caught the figure of a little young man with her silver-blond mane. Katherine's lips quivered, walking and hugging Daniel's fragile little body.
Daniel, who was hugged, could only be silent, his lips quivering and his eyes blurred with tears he had blocked.
"Okaasan..." Daniel's murmuring shook. Katherin really didn't expect this, it feels like only yesterday that Maria and herself shared a story.
Katherine swiped the mane and little Daniel's darling back. "Aunt, I'll always be there for you, Daniel. You won't be alone anymore. He kept saying sedative words to Daniel.
"I already know why mom.. I know why you told me to stay with Grandma, I know why you're crying in the room, I know everything.
"The reason you sent me to the Philippines is so I don't want to hear the commotion about your fight, right? And the reason you cried every night was because you chose that whore over us." And immediately Daniel fell down sitting with one hand clutching his chest sore. Tears welled up until they fell all over the floor.
"It hurts to see you suffer, it hurts to see you hurt, it hurts so much mom.. Daniel's really very fragile right now, the mother's wound means her wound too.
Tap tap tap
Footsteps were heard entering the eardrum. Katherin Padilla, Maria Calinao's best friend, looked at Daniel's fragile little milk.
"Maria, I can't stand to see little Daniel get hurt..." His right hand closed his mouth crying silently. "It hurts so much to see little Daniel crying in tears."
"Maria, you're too fast to leave her."