Beneath The Bitter Past

thought that Mom needs everything. So, I was forced to buy it,

e amount for Mom's treatment?" I cried, and I couldn't stop my te

d at our place, around afternoon, I caught up with Dad, who w

your mother?" he a

be confined. Because she has pneumonia," I said t

and his eyes and nose began to turn red

lot of medicine, this is all." At the same time,

y left, Audrey?" he

ey, and when he looked at it, he sudde

to get money?" He wiped

my father's reaction, I couldn'

someone to help us and I will also try to

ion early Audrey, I wi

ame, I immediately felt fear a

first and tomorrow morning

ka

other village. I just got up at four o'clock in the mor

hour before I arrived at my brother's residence; I feel breathless, sweaty, hungry, cold t

said my brother's name, and f

" asked by Sister Hil

Hilda, this

opened the doo

morning?" brother Tony asked in surpris

s in the hospit

riedly, and I won't be surprised at his re

ney to pay for her medicines and

nd with his head and I knew wh

't have any money right now. I'll just find a

me and somehow my stomach was full. When I got home, I couldn't catch up with Dad, I already knew where he went. In

at the mansion, he immedia

Senior Miguel

erious, and it took him a l

hy is it your morning to

housand you gave yesterda

tell my father. "Uhmm-nothing, Arsing, that's just

al now, she has pneumonia and we need money. Maybe we can borrow Senio

Arsing. How much do

" Dad is having sec

that it mig

ome inside and I'll

a large notebook. Before he handed over the money, he asked Dad to sign it, as a loan. Dad returned hom

..." he happil

I immediatel

in my request, he gave

d. How much

ousand," h

. If my Dad can't pay, Senior Miguel might charge me. But it's okay

know how much we need for her medicine. I went to the billing section with trepidation in my heart, and I kept praying th

e because she was looking for my Mom's record. And later she han