THE NEWS

June 17, 2008 midnight, I was on my way to meet a friend when suddenly I received a call from my tito, just by the sound of him I can feel there’s something wrong, he told me that he was trying to contact my mom but she was not answering, my tito is hesitant to break the news “telling me wag akong mabibigla at magpakatatag ako” just by that phrase I knew already that it’s about my dad, he wasn’t able to tell me directly and he passed it to my tita, my tita started crying and told me the wala ni si… and I started crying, it happened so fast, I wasn’t prepared I didn’t expect it to happen. I was the first one to know in the family. After that, I called my mom right away she’s at the hospital and I asked her if visitors are still allowed to go inside, she don’t want me to come anymore she told me that my dad had a heart attack and pray for him that’s all she knows. The line wasn’t clear so I decided to hang up and go to the hospital. I was driving, crying, talking to myself, to God and to my papa. When I arrived at the hospital I saw my mom crying hard talking to someone at the phone, my youngest brother was there he’s eyes full of tears I started crying again, all of us. My 2nd brother was the last one to know. That night of 061708 was the saddest day of my life.