CHAPTER 19- HIS HALF-BROTHER NAMED JACE

“You haven’t told me about your half-brother,” lakas-loob kong sambit habang naglalakad kami papasok ng bahay. Kanina ko pa siya gustong kausapin tungkol sa bagay na iyon. Okay naman siya kanina, pero magmula noong lumabas kami ng book store, nagsimula na siyang maging tahimik. And I don’t know what went wrong. Sigurado naman akong hindi ako ang problema. Maybe something happened about him and his brother. And he’s not telling me because he doesn’t want me to get involved.

He stopped on walking and looked at me.

“You never know anything about my family,” he said as a matter of fact.

“Yeah, but I know Janina, your older sister.”

His expression suddenly went blank. Parang mayroon siyang naisip at bigla siyang hinila noon sa kabilang dimensiyon.

“Jacob?”

Nang hawakan ko siya sa braso ay saka siya muling tumingin sa akin.

“Sorry, I was lost. Uh, yeah. About Jace. Well, I plan to tell you about him. Kaso, nauna kayong nagkakilala bago ko pa nasabi sa’yo na mayroon akong half-brother.”

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