(The curtain opens. The setting is in the sala, with Mother reading a book in Organizational Behavior. The evening is young. The TV is turned on)

(Enter the til-as)

Til-as: Ma...

Mama:: Hmm?

Til-as: Ma...

Mama: Unsa man??

(ni tupad sa sofa where Mama sits)

Til-as: I have something to tell you

Mama: Cge anak

Til-as: I'm






pregnant.....

(Til-as looks away from Mama)

Mama: (speechless)

(before maka-react...)

Til-as: Wala btaw... nahagbong ko og Medical-Surgical Nursing, I'll have to take the subject again next year


Mama: (BP stabilized, Respi normal) Aw... abi nakog unsa... hagbong RA man diay, wa man kaha ka nabuntis or nag-drugs...

Til-as: I'm sorry (teary eyed)


Mama: Ok ra, it's doesn't matter how many times you fail, it matters if you are contented failing....


Til-as: (Abraham Lincoln, State of the Nation Address)

Mama: Cge, katulog na

Til-as: Nyt ma (hugz)


^_^