C3 Chapter 2

"Angeline huh?! Stop frowning! I'm telling you if I sell less today, your salary will be half as well!" My eyes widened and when I was about to answer, her boyfriend, Mang Inggo, called her, I can't chase her because no one will be here at the post. Maybe later we will rob and Tita will make me pay. Sigh.

How come I can't frown? It's been a week since I heard on TV that Kathryn and my baby Trigger were dating, fortunately it doesn't seem to be going on because of the typhoons that are coming to the country one after another.

I also always look forward to the showbiz news on TV and FB so I know, I'm just not sure if it's true or just made up. But I really hope they haven't dated yet because I'm really heartbroken by the handsome man. I want to be the only one my baby Trigger can date.

Hey, I'm really hopeless-hopeless. I'm really crazy about baby Trigger. How can I be noticed? Well, I'm just a simple person, I'm still poor. While he is rich, famous, the pogi-pogi and many people like him at his level. Sigh. But I trust Ciffer, it's just a case of a week without a sign of that boy! Looks like I'm sorry for that!

Wow! Yes, right? Why did I just now realize that he wanted me? Eish! He just told me that he was going to find a way, but he was just going to finish his new design. Sigh. It's annoying! I can hope! I was about to tease Ciffer by text when the tourists arrived. I'll just text him later, I will sell first.

Until the end of my work time with Tita. Oh! Thank you, I'm also very tired today. Suddenly, people came to the market and bought fruits that can only be bought here as a welcome.

"Son, you're here." Mama greeted me by slapping me to sit on our bamboo sofa. I smiled at him and stood up to lead.

"Mom, who are you?" And then I smiled at him and helped him sit on the bamboo sofa. "Uh. Mom, I just bought a dish and rice outside." And then I lifted the two bags that I placed on the side of where I was sitting earlier. He nodded and was about to smile, but suddenly he coughed, so I attended to him immediately.

"Mom, are you okay? And by the way, my tip is what I bought for our meal today, those foreigners who bought earlier said to keep the change."

"They are kind children." Mama said softly to me. I just nodded and when I saw that he was tired, I said goodbye to him, I was just going to prepare our dinner. Mama can't take medicine too late, so she has to be on time when she eats.

We were in the middle of eating when Mama suddenly stopped eating. I was about to ask him if he finished eating when he coughed one after another so he covered it with his hands. When he lowered his hands, my eyes widened like that and my chest was filled with fear when I saw my blood on his hands!

"Mom!" And then I approached him and he immediately lost consciousness.

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"I'll tell you, Miss Alegre, your Mama's life will not be far away, when he hasn't done therapy." I was moved to tears by what the Doctor said, I just bent down and then I wiped my eyes with the handkerchief I had with me. I still haven't recovered from the information he was telling me, eh, my next one.

"And the required amount is really big. The total payment for the therapy is two million pesos including the drugs, but only half of the hospital bill is included in the two million, the rest you have to pay separately.

One session of therapy is two hundred thousand and it has to be done every week." I was depressed at what he said. How could I get that much money? I don't even have a penny saved!

"Well, drink it first, you might run out of water in your body and start crying." I know Ciffer is just trying to make me laugh but I really can't because of the size of my problem right now. I accepted the water he gave me and then drank it, I just now also felt my thirst.

We are now outside of Mama's hospital room, she should only be in the emergency room and she is in my kurti-kurti that will only be laid down because a deposit is required if you want the patient to have his own room. Ten thousand, I don't have that kind of money, so I would have agreed with Mama, just in case, out of nowhere, Ciffer suddenly appeared with Mama's Doctor and two Nurses. After that, the Doctor ordered Mama to be moved to the hospital room. Ciffer walked over to me and then gently squeezed my shoulder.

"Sorry Bess, I just met you today, you know I'm a bit busy with work." I nodded to him and then I answered, even though I'm not in the mood to talk right now because of the size of my problem, but of course because Ciffer is my best friend and I also have to thank him. I held one of his hands that was resting on his knee.

"Thank you very much, Bess, for being here at the right time when Mama and I needed help, and I'm sorry for the trouble. I'm really ashamed of you because you took on Mama's bill here at the hospital." I told him to cry. He tormented me and then pulled my messy hair.

"Stop being dramatic, bess, I'm not good at it! I'm more used to you being naughty!" I tried to smile at him but it just ended up in grimacing until I ended up crying again. He immediately hugged me and when I was soft, he took me inside his car. They said we had something important to talk about, it's a good thing my nurse was still watching over Mama so I agreed to go with her.