friday the thirteenth

it was a day we, in our family will never, ever forget.
it was the day we almost lost andrea, my niece.
she is two years old.

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call me supertitious, but i know a bad day coming if i feel it coming.
and yesterday is not an excemption.

call it "a series of unfortunate events", but from what i experienced yesterday, friday the thirteenth is for real.

my misfortune began during my summer class when i chose not to do the assignment for that day, our teacher, for what most of us thought, never collects assignments. but that day, is really an excemption. immediately, upon his arrival, my dreaded accounting professor, collected all the papers, telling us that he will not accept late assignments. everyone was shocked. except for a very responsible few. i was not one of those of people, i was copying answers as fast as i could but to no avail.

then the class ended i went home and upon arrival, i ate my lunch, watched survivor and took a nap, unaware of the great misfortune ahead.

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it was a good sleep.
upon awakening, i went to the living room where i found my two nephews, aaron and adrian, excitingly viewing our revived aquarium. mom's in the kitchen together with dad. and my sister, my nephews said was outside buying some stuff. everything was smooth sailing, until my sister arrived.
with her were the stuff she brought, some snacks, others home stuff. we were eating the hamburgers she bought until she asked us where andrea, my youngest niece, was.
then, the misfortune happened, it was like a scene from a teleserye, my sister was crying looking for her lost daughter as i rushed through our street looking for the same. my heart was pounding. my mind kept displaying thoughts of what could have happened to my two year old niece. how could she disappeared like that? time goes slow motion. really. everyone was emotional. my sister asked everyone in our street about my niece's whereabouts. luckily, many did see her. thanks to the red dress my niece was wearing. they said they were surprised someone as young, and as small, as my niece is loitering in the street with no guidance or what so ever. so they brought her to the barangay hall, where my sister rushed to claim her. everyone was relieved and still perplexed how everything happened. how a two year old girl escaped my mom, my dad, my two nephews, me.

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thanks to god.

we did not lose andrea.

we found her.

i promise not to lose my sight on her ever again.

i promise to be a good uncle.

i promise to grow-up, to be responsible for my family.

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when everyone recovered from the shock, my sister told me, that i too was lost in a mall.
it was not to say that for the second time, they almost lost a family member, but a reminder that sometimes things happen without our control.

buti na lang, isang friday the thirteenth lang meron ngayong taon.