Echoing Back

BABA JECO! BABA!

That wasn’t my mom. It was my brain yelling at me. And for the next two-hours it was restless.

"Manong, para muna. May naiwan ako."

O
sh*t jeco. San mo ba kasi naiwan? Dun sa terminal. Baba bilis baba.
Shucks wala rin. O my, baka dala mo sa jeep. Hindi mo naman tinignan
bago ka bumaba.

FLASH BACK- 1989:

I
was in a jeep with my Dad and was on our way home from school, when my
Dad noticed that I don’t have my lunchbox with me. I said I must have
left it somewhere in school so we got off the jeep immediately. We
looked everywhere I stayed before he fetched me but saw no lunchbox. We
even checked the tricycle we rode from school. And then I remembered…
I placed it behind me when we rode the jeep. I had it with me all
along. Of course, I didn’t tell my dad. Para san pa? Malilintikan lang
ako lalo.

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