124 Morning Sickness

He got back to the granite house very late in the evening and she's already sleeping and looked so tired.

" What did she do within the entire day? Huh, what's that stuff on her hand?" George moved closer and meticulously look at it that she's tightly grasping.

" A baby pajama, haha! this is I guess the 20th one." He smiled and removed it from her hand and he tried to check it by himself, smilingly. After which, he rushed to the kitchen outside just to boil some jackfruit seeds that Albrecht gave him, considering her wife can have it in the morning with chicken eggs and sweetened 'ginataang gabi.'

Boom! Boom!

" Huh!" He has heard a loud burst of mortar with series of handgun shots.

" Prisoners! there might have Filipino prisoners who have escaped and the Japs are following them. It could be possible."

He tried to go up to the granite house surface and checked whether someone's seeking help as he brought along with him some ropes. He ran so fast, stooping on bonsai trees and stopped on that location where Magee left a rope used to escape heading to station one, months ago.

" Here, I can glide down and could clearly see if who's being chased while the moonlight could help."

The rain outpoured as he landed so silently and immediately hid himself on a rubber tree propped with clinging vines. There, he saw silhouettes of three running men but he was astounded if why they've ran in the center of the path where the Japs can easily follow them.

" Why...this might be a trap! They could have been in shortcut pathways and seemed obviously stopped and waited for the Japs to reach them. Hmm, their knee bending when it comes to running seems different too - they're fake prisoners!" He thought while hiding. When the Japs and so-called dramatic prisoners have passed by, he carefully climbed back to the mountain top, ran and returned to the daylight optic hole and slid down.

" Whew! they almost got me. Hmm..what happened tonight only tells us that the Japs have speculations of this spot of Kabang. Great heavens! I'll meet the Captain tomorrow for this." He continued boiling the jackfruit seeds and when got it cooked after minutes, he poured it altogether on a granite bowl and covered it with a green banana leaf.

Then he joined her on bed while he thought deeply of the Japs' recent tactic.

In the next day, he woke up late and has heard her experiencing morning Sickness. He immediately ran towards her in room number six and tried comforting her from series of vomits and still drooling afterwards with a hand to reach him to hang on her exhausted arms.

" Mag, what do you want to eat...tell me."

" Breadfruit. But you cook it for me. Please boil various leafy vegetables and if - there's chicken meat, I can maybe swallow it all. My....my tongue is not working well these days. I just imagine those food I thought could make me better. George...tell me if it's too much. I know we're at war with the Japs...I know it's scarcity time, I know we don't have any chicken outside for food but I'm sorry I just thought it so tasty and ..." Then she swallowed her saliva again and again.

" Haha! Alright. Don't worry Mag, I'll find a way. Just wait a little here and if the chicken will be delayed just expect for it, okay?" Then he smiled while kissing her forehead.