Gift used the handkerchief she was holding to rub her face one more time. She felt so heartbroken and so sad that she did not know how to express herself. She needed to tell Jacquard exactly what happened to his uncle. Every time she tried to say what happened, she stopped whenever she almost did. After many tries, she said, " your uncle, Siyabong . . ." "Yes. Okay! What happened to uncle Siyabong? Has anything happened to him? Please talk to me. Tell me what happened. Anything that happened I promise you to react to it well. I won't even do as if you told me anything." He said while his body was shivering already. " Your uncle, Siyabong, had an accident today at his place of work. He is dead." She said crying and trying to stand up from where he was sitting to roll on the ground but was prevented from doing so. Jacquard could not what he heard. He kept on repeating what he heard. " Your uncle, Siyabong, is dead! Your uncle, Siyabong is dead!! Your uncle, Siyabong, is dead!" He
Jacquard, Jack, Gifts together with several neighbors accompanied them to their house. Jacquard went straight to his bedroom while Jack and the rest sat in the living room. No one talked to one another when they were coming down home. One of their neighbors accompanied them back home who happened to be the closest friend of Gift stood up, Mrs. Smith, went straight to the kitchen to prepare something for the family. Every one of them even jack had refused to take anything after he had regained consciousness. All the food prepared had always been eaten by people other than those members of the Jacquard who did not even say anything or make any move towards food, he would just look in the direction of the table where the foods that were prepared by the neighbors were placed. Likewise Jack also throughout their stay in the hospital.Upon getting home, the neighbor, Mrs. Smith, went to the kitchen. She did not allow how they, including her friend, were allowing her efforts to be in vain b
Jacquard locked himself inside his room for several hours. No one for once mistakenly moved towards his door, not to talk or open it. Jack and his mother were the only ones left in their living room. Mrs. Smith and others who helped cook had left. Mrs. Smith was a merchant. She owns a retail business where she sells clothes and other clothes-making materials. Mrs. Smith was the one who Gift first worked with for some months where she was able to learn how to trade and run a small business. Through Mrs. Smith, Gift was able to get connected with some suppliers and buyers from other regions and those from other neighboring nations. Mrs. Smith had been a window after the third year of his marriage. His husband was a high soldier of the Abasia Kingdom before he died after a short-time illness. She had two kids then but now are the same age as Jacquard and Jack. She started her retail business a few months after her husband died with the death gratuity of her husband she received. She
Jack and his mother gave Jacquard a disbelieving look. They looked at him as if he had said something that his beyond what they could comprehend. "Hey guy, if it is because you just stoop up from bed or whatsoever you have been doing inside your room since hours ago that is why you thought of saying this, just to cajole or cheer us up, please stop it. How was it possible for Uncle Siyabong to have a daughter and we won't know? " Is it even possible for him to have done something like what you have just said and he will not tell me at all? We both knew each other secrets. He always tells me he had nothing, no one except us. He did not for once made mention of such or discuss such with me, and you know how close and the amount of time we do spend together in a day. Now you are saying he had a daughter in this Abasia Kingdom. It is you that was always busy with your work and other activities of yours he will get you situated and tell you such. It's not possible. And stop all this your
Before a knock was heard from the door, Gift stood up from where she was to go into the kitchen to get herself some water. After she drank a little out of the water in the glass cup and she went back to where she was sitting before she went into the kitchen. " Yeah, I could remember the night you were talking about. I mean the night he returned from the trip and he was narrating his experience and how they were attacked and the soldiers saved them from being slain. Throughout the conversation, he was just repeating the same thing. He really emphasized the attack than his experience. I was really interested and eager to hear about his experience, those things he saw, their culture, buildings, and other things that distinguished the nation from others. But he failed to talk more about that. That really got me bored and I was feeling asleep then. I had no choice but to excuse myself but I knew he had something he really wished to tell me but the day was hectic. I was already drained out
The hospitality and treatments Mr. Louis, Hana, Siyabong's wife, and Helena, his daughter, received were so heartwarming and compassionate. They all thought it was going to be a very tedious task to convince the whole family that, Siyabong had a family and a daughter before he died. Mr. Louis was so confused by distress and anxiety. He was not sure if the family could accept them just the way they just did. He did not relate with the family that much but his little encounter with every of the family caused such feelings. The first time he realized Jack was Siyabong's nephew was the day Jack gave Mr. Julius the most memorable and highest beating of his life. He felt Jack was already going wild and uncontrollable. Particularly he felt so uncomfortable about a young worker beating his superior officer. Mr. Louis tried to help Mr. Julius out that day to take down Jack. Every by him to assist Jack that day resulted in him getting a huge share of the beating. Mr. Julius was not well dealt
Hana's impression of Gift and her children was totally different from the kind of people she met and related with. She thought when Siyabong told her to relax and prevent herself from being in hurry to visit other members of his family in the Abasia Kingdom. She thought his husband, Siyabong was scared of them and what they are capable of doing to stop him from getting married to her. After Siyabong and Hana got wedded together as husband and wife by a priest the following day when intercourse had taken place between them. It is a taboo in the nation for unwed man amendments to have intercourse and wedding rituals and other things that are needed to be done are not carried out three days after when they have copulated. Siyabong did not do any of it but carried all that out just to make Hana more comfortable around him and also to earn her the respects and benefits that a married woman gets in the nation. Married are well respected and are always treated with dignity and with holi
Gift, Jacquard, Jack, and Mr. Louis were astonishedbyh the request. Gift and his children were surprised because her request was what they were deliberating on. Whether to place it before her or carry things out the other way around. They had a bad feeling towards such a request from a person who had just lost someone so close to her heart. Because of that, they felt so reluctant to make such a request but they knew it is important to them to make such. They presumed it might sound unfair and weird to Hana's hearing. They felt it would be too imposing and inhumane to demand for both of them to stay in the Abasia Kingdom where life is good and comfortable. Or she leaves behind Helena, and she can leave for his nation. With what she requested, there is no need to start giving her any criteria or law or start to start another episode of expatriation of reasons for her to stay. There are no cultural or spiritual reasons to keep her and her daughter in Abasia Kingdom, but the family fel