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Chapter 11
Verse for today:
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
— Psalms 51:7
Chapter 11
"Hindi ba pwedeng... pakiusapan?" Castellina broke the defeaning silence inside the dorm.
"Sister, that's Serene's mother we are talking about," tugon ni Savy.
I felt a sudden lump in my throat that I cannot speak. I know Mom's not that atrocious and I truly understand her desire for me but it hurts. Mahirap para sa akin na umalis at iwan ang pamilya na nabuo rito sa loob ng apat na taon. They are also my home.
"Obey her," diretsong sambit ni Aleah.
"Aleah?!" pabulong na sigaw ng dalawa.
"Do you really agreed to her mother for commanding her to leave us? Pwedeng umalis si Serene dito, but not to the point of signing off as one of us!" saad ni Castellina.
Tumungo na lang ako. It mattered not how many times I ask for my friends' opinion. At the end, I wo
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