CHAPTER 4

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I woke up at 5:30 p.m. I feel alone in the double bed. I got up from the bed and yawned as I left our room. I felt like peeing. I need to pee right now. I stroll alone in the corridor and have not met anyone at the headquarters today; everyone appears to be occupied in the Lazaros' main house. I entered the restroom and urinated there. When I peed, I washed my hands and exited. I went to the kitchen to eat the food that brother Calvin had ordered for me earlier. I opened the refrigerator, took the spaghetti with chicken, and placed it on a plate, along with some rice to eat; this is my dinner. The palabok will be my breakfast tomorrow. Before I eat it, I microwave it with my spaghetti and chicken. I eat my food alone in this dining hall. It’s boring because my surroundings is too quiet. It looks like, I was in cemetery. Creepy "Oh, Solana! You're awake! I was going to come to your room, Shirley is asking me to check on you!" I turned around when I heard a voice and saw my sister Dina. "Oh my gosh, sister Dina! I thought there was a ghost behind me? It's just you!" I shouted, clutching my chest as it sped up. The headquarters was still large and silent all around. "Hey, what do you think... I'm a ghost? Your sister Dina is beautiful, huh?" She told me this. I just smiled at her. "Sister Dina, what is there in the main house? why are you, guys, still there? There's some problem po?" I asked her. At this time, the others should be here at the headquarters, but not a single one is here yet. Sister Malou and Sister Gina should be here at the headquarters; they are from the laundry here at the mansion. "Nothing. Solana. Something is just being repaired on the third floor in the main house. That's why no one is coming back here. Oh, hey, I'm going back there too. I'll tell Shirley that you're awake. Do your assignments if you have any." She reminded me, so I nodded to her. We don't have an assignment, so I'll just play. I saw her walking out from here dining hall. I couldn't help but smile big, that I was the only one here. When I finished eating I washed my dishes, cutlery and glasses. I know how to wash my dishes, Mama taught me to wash what I ate. I entered our room and took the tablet that brother Calvin and brother Ceres gave me. I played online games. I played and played, until I heard the door of the room open, and I saw Mama. My eyes widened when I saw Mama looking at me with wide eyes. "Solana! You played all day again! Did you do your assignment?" She said loudly, which was me hiding the tablet behind my back. I smiled at her. "I don't have assignment, Mama! And, I ate my dinner already, sister Dina saw me eating in dining hall earlier and I wash it too." I smiled I'm still smiling at her. "You're forgetting to do something, Solana! You haven't washed yet! Wash up while there's no one in the bathroom!" Mama said to me and pointed to the one outside our room. I quickly followed her before she scolded me. I took my towel and some pajamas, runaway. "Did your Mama scold you again, Solana?" brother Gerald loudly asked me, driver of brother Ceres and brother Calvin. I smiled at him. "She didn't scold me, she was just asking me to wash me, brother Gerald!" I answered him back. "By the way, Solana. Young Master Ceres bought something for you, an ice cream cake, it's in the fridge!" My eyes lit up because of what he said, but it's gone when I heard Mama's voice. "Solana, you can't eat that, you'll eat that ice cream cake tomorrow!" Mama overheard the two of us talking. "I know, Mama! I'm going to wash up!" I ran into the bathroom and showered. After twenty minutes in the bathroom, I came out of the bathroom with my pajamas on. I went to the kitchen, I saw they were eating, they invited me but I refused because I was still full. I just drank some water and saw what brother Gerald was referring to, the ice cream cake. I want to eat, but I feel Mama's gaze behind my back. So I closed the fridge again and walked back into our room. I played online games again with Cherry. By seven in the evening, I started to watch some random videos in my social account, until, I saw Mama’s back in our room. "Solana, go to sleep! You have school tomorrow and I still need to take you," Mama said. I looked at her. "Just a minute, Mama. I just want to finish watching this video on my Facetagram account. It's so thrilling!" I told her. "You're constantly ecstatic! I'll smack your butt if I wake you up tomorrow and you're still drowsy and tell me to wait!" Mama warned me. I pouted even more. "Mama, come on! I'm going to sleep already! Just let me finish!" I said and and I remembered about the parent's meeting. "Oh, Mama! I forgot to tell you... Tomorrow, Mama, the parents will be called. We have parents meeting for our graduation this March! Are you going?" I asked her. I off my tablet and put it down in side table. "You are really a child! It's been a long time, why did you just tell me now? I still have to say to Ma'am Charity that I gonna go to your school tomorrow!" She exclaimed. I scratched my hair. "Sorry, Mama. But, at least, I remembered more than I didn't, didn't I?" I explained to her. I saw Mama take a pillow and almost throw it at me. "Solana, next time tell me about that right away, okay?" I nodded to her one after the other. "I'm sorry, Mama. We don't have class tomorrow either, because of the meeting so I'm just here—" I didn't finish what I was going to say. "Study here while I'm at your school." I smiled and nodded at her. "Of course, Mama! I will follow you!" I breathed a sigh of relief when he left our room. It looks like she's going to aunt Charity to tell her she's going to my school tomorrow. I, on the other hand, took the letter and placed it on the side table so that Mama could see that he had returned. I lay down on our bed and went to sleep, I felt sleepy again. I woke up alone in bed again, it looked like Mama had left to come to our parents meeting for our graduation. I have taken care of myself, so that when Mama comes I will have taken a bath and she won't be angry with me. After I finished taking a shower, I also went to the kitchen, I saw some food and a sticky note written on it. "Solana, this is for you, when you wake up, child, eat this, okay? I love you, my Solana. I'm going to your school. Love, Mama." Reading Mama's handwritten letter made me smile. I took the sticky note and put it aside. I sat down at the dining table and ate the food Mama cooked for me, fried rice, eggs, ham and bacon. That's my favorite. "I love my mom so much!" After I finished eating, I went out and went to the main house to help with the housework for Mama. "Solana, why are you here, huh?" I stopped when I saw aunt Charity. I bowed to her. "Hello, aunt Charity! I will take over Mama's work while she is away." I said smiling to her. "Solana, no! You don't need to help with the housework, okay? Go back to headquarters to study, okay?" Aunt Charity smiled at me. She is really beautiful, she looks like brother Ceres. "It's okay, aunt Charity—" "No." She told me emphatically. "Go back to the headquarters, Iha. Just study, watch or play there. Dina can do the job, okay? Go back!" She ordered me. I didn't do anything but walk back to the headquarters. I was alone there again. It would be better if brother Ceres or brother Calvin were here, so I could have someone to play with. I'm playing here at the headquarters, my mom left me here because today is our parents meeting, she needs to go there because the meeting is all about our graduation in March. I'm turning college student next school year. The time is running on the wall clock that is here in the living room of the headquarters. I'm bored from my whole day here, so Cherry and I have a video call. "Hello, Solana! I missed you right away, we'll see each other tomorrow! oh, and, our graduation is on March 15!" Cherry said to me with a big smile. "March 15? How did you know?" I asked her. "Mama has arrived from the meeting! The meeting is only for two hours... Is your Mama not here yet, Solana?" I shook my head at her. "M—Mama isn't here yet... She hasn't come back yet. What time did aunty come home?" I was suddenly nervous. My heart beat faster. I saw her gaze diverting from me. "Um, before eleven in the morning, Solana! Mom stopped by my favorite cookies shop. But, she said the meeting only ended in two hours... Maybe aunty just passed by something, Solana. Don't worry, maybe someone just ordered him to go a different way first before returning to you. Your mom will be there later!" Cherry's said it. I tried to smile at her, even though I was still nervous; my chest was still beating fast. "For sure Mama is coming back. I'll just wait for her in front of the gate. Bye, Cherry, see you tomorrow!" I said goodbye to her. "Sure, sure! See you tomorrow, Solana! Don't be nervous, your Mama is on her way home, okay?" She puts my heart at ease so I smile and nod at her again. Mama is sure to come home.
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