touched by an angel

i woke up late earlier today. It was already 3pm when i went out of my room. My sisters were still eating so i joined them and ate a few spoons of rice and a ripe yellow mango and then watch tv. After a few hours, my elder sis left, so does my younger sis - not knowing where they are all going. I went back to my room and opened my laptop. I remember my cousin wants me to install ms office software on her computer in mandaue, so i prepared my flash drive and saved the files i needed.

It was already early in the evening when i arrived in Mandaue. My parents are staying there, so when i arrived, i went directly to their room. I saw my father cleaning up buloy(aged 2 or 3 yr old cousin) who was naked since he just finished dinner and got so messy that he need to change clothes. My father gave me buloy's shirt and pants telling me to wear it on buloy. I told buloy that if he can wear it by himself, i'll buy him and ice cream. Hearing the word ice cream he started to wear the shirt by himself. It took him so long to figure out how to wear it that my mother wanted to help him since he look so puzzled on how to do such thing. Yeah, yeah, i myself wanted to help him too, but as a challenge, i wanted him to really just do it on his own that i stopped my mother everytime he goes near him. hahaha after some tries of getting to wear his shirt on, he finally made it. Then come to his pants --- which my father commented that he would never to do on his own. So i challenged buloy again, that he must wear it by himself so as i can buy him an ice cream. He was able to wear his pants right away which made us all laugh when he suddenly get up and said "ice cream, na palit nata" (ice cream, com'on lets buy) while wearing his slippers. So, the two of us went out and head to the store which was a couple of blocks away from our place. While walking, i asked him to hold my hand until she let go of me saying "daku naku, ayaw lang kupot"(i'm grown up, don't hold me), which really made me laugh and stopped, telling him that if he is not going to hold my hand, he won't get his ice cream. So we went on walking and he held my hand.

While still we were walking, i asked him where his mom is... he answered me back in an innocent voice "naa si mama sa ospital" (my mom is in the hospital). I questioned him back why his mom is in the hospital and answered "naa man siya sakit" (she has some sickness). Then i questioned him again where his dad was and he answered "naa sa ospital" (in the hospital). I also asked him why his dad is in the hospital and he said "bantayan man niya si mama"(taking care of mama).

I really felt so touched while i was asking him those questions. It's like i was talking to a grown up man knowing his so young. It's been days or i think weeks that his mom was admitted to the hospital because of some problems which i think is serious. He and his brother george(3 or 4 yrs old) has been sleeping with my mom and dad for a couple of days now. They have no idea what really is happening and how their mom is doing.

We continued walking and bought two pints of chocolate icecream and walk back. My dad and buloy are best buds. My father always says that buloy is really witty. Stubborn most of the time. He gets my father, mother and even me shout at the top of our lungs but still manage to make us smile and laugh.

I dropped by my other cousin's house whom i need to install a software on their pc. There house was closed. So i just went home. My dad and buloy accompanied me to get a ride back home.