Chapter Five: Surprises And Funerals

We greet everyone ‘good morning’ whenever we meet them alive when the sun shines in the morning, but would you greet people a good morning if someone just died beside them?

The noise of the people around waken me up, most of them are sobbing that makes me cry too. It’s just so sad to hear them cry like it’s the end of the world. There’s no Mike beside me, no trace of him too. People are gathering, making a circle and sobbing together. The pirate-like crews were standing on the edge of the ship with their heads bowed down and tears escaping from their one eye, hugging their black pirate cap. I’m scared to know who died but I went closer to the gathering and to my painful surprise, I saw Grandma holding Grandpa Martes’ dead body sobbing and murmuring sentences we couldn’t clearly understand. I sat on the floor beside Grandma and hugged her. I couldn’t dare to look at Grandpa’s dead body so I closed my eyes but even how closed it is, tears came out like the waters in a river th