Chapter 28: Greeting The Past

Five years later

“Are you ready for tomorrow?” malumanay na tanong ng Daddy ni Charlie sa kanya. They were talking via video call and she can clearly see the worried look on her father’s face.

She forced a smiled. “I will be fine, Dad. Besides, this is not the first time that I’ll be negotiating over our… o-our debt,” alanganing niyang sagot. Even after so many years, the word still tasted bitter on her mouth.

“Yes but this is the first time your Uncle Joshua will not be with you. Do you want me to call your Grandma or your Uncle Kiel para may kasama ka—“

“Dad, ‘di ba nag-usap na tayo,” maagap niyang putol sa ama. “How will I learn if I’d always rely on other people? Besides graduation ni Tala bukas, Uncle Josh will not miss his daughter’s graduation just to help me, would he? Don’t you trust me?”

Her father had this conflicted look on his face for a while. “I do. It’s the people you meet I don’t trust.”

She smiled, her heart warming up a little. There she was all grown up and c