Love Me Still

l deep asleep. Roads at night

iting for a bus and there's no bus o

A cab stopped i

e and the way he looks at my mom. She hi

round. A lot of cabs stopped and tried to get us and mom kept on refus

plate number on and you're on track, for yo

r every creepy second. I looked at mom and she's just looking through the window wi

d an officer at the front, inc

ed and kept observing people around me. There are a lot of c

e, looking more normal now that she has remove

show this to the officer in front. Don't turn your back at me

out you?

do that here." She put strands of my hair at the back of my ears. "Just do what I said

er orders through my head for a reason that she told me th

hey caught her sneaking inside. So when I g

mom's still not around. I tried to not

p's eyes that's

en asked about my name, I say Cassandra

h, I say with my mom but sh

cause mom has to hide so that I won't get c

odd

d. I gave her a nod and kiss on the c

s. "You know I love you

ded like what I did

t the money there so you could buy food eve

if you are the one to con them. Make sure you're not the one

Maam!"

them from me again." As a child, I took it mildly, thinking that sh

was

at the destination port, I went

ere this is but I heard peopl

in my mind. With my hand on my stomach, backpack, and tote bag

ess hall and saw familiar families

rushed to me. Handing me a folded

ly two pictures on the said menu. Chicken noo

ars and gestured "no"

nd gestured his hand like a puppet, pointed at

d for the second time,

hat you said!" Is he trying to con me? Huh! Tr

at himself

itation, I tried to un

p and started to act

ea

thumbs up. Then he

guessed that it made us jump with our

ut stares so I immediately s

something when the

the TV caught

t clear as of the moment for she is filled with wounds and the face is no longer recognizable. Based on th

d went

's m