si O

O has been my friend since high school. I was part of her tryst, a rebellious daughter and a good friend, we hit it off. We became closer when she married someone who lives in the same street where I live.

She is my constant drinking buddy. A 3-stick a day smoker and a loving mom to her three kids. It's nice to have friends who are good mothers.

We always exchange stories about our lives, being a mom, a battered wife, having a sick daughter and a lumpen spouse. She also have her stolen moments and I condemn them but what can I do, she does it for her sanity.

I have known her to be a strong-willed woman. She brings home most of the bacon and she does everything for the sake of her kids. Her spouse... he hits her when he's drunk and mad. A truly blue paranoid and asshole. She told me, she just accepts her life's misfortunes and move on. She cannot leave the house because they live with her husband's relatives and it will be inconvenient for her kids if they move out.

Pero kahit ganoon ang mundo niya. Malakas pa rin ang loob niya para mabuhay para sa mga anak niya. Maganda pa rin ang disposition niya. I really envy her, sometimes, I get my strength from her.

Kaya when this girl texts me... I come to her just to share some small talks and get rid of some crappy tension out of our system.

Draw the line sister.