| on april 10th 2004 i was woken up by my brother. the first thing i heard that day was, "wake up, auntie loli died." my bvrother sounded serious but i didnt want to believe him.i thought thats impossible so i jus sed,  "liar...now go away imma sleep still." later when i went down. half way through my breakfast my dad came into the room en sed, "did you know aunty loli died?" ....on april 9th 2004 J.L. and Lolita morse, my aunt and uncle, were killed. there small home in cleveland texas burned down, them with it . i hadnt seen my uncle jay for four years. eni forgot to sey bye to my aunt wen she left phillippines before i did, thinking i was going to see her agen.earlier that same day my uncle had just comeback home from 6 months in the hospital. he had been wanting so bad to get out of there for so long en he finally did which was a really good thing. .my aunt had just been through two surgerys. when i last saw her, which was on our trip to phillippines, jus 3 months ago, she had to take bunches of pills that she didnt want to take...she shoved them down anyways. im thankful they dont have to go through that anymore . when our family found out, we didnt want to tell my grandparents over the fone because no one would be there for them. lauren, jaren, ate jayna, and their parents, kuya JR, ate haydee, aunty aida en uncle henry, en my family went over that afternoon to tell them. when we got there grandma was so happy ....i didnt want to tell her anymore. she was happier than i had seen her in a long while, because her whole family was here (jus the familys in the u.s) . then we told her. she broke down en i culdnt help but tear up too. my mom en aunts were crying, grnadma was wailing, en one of the aunts i was closest to0 was gone. we left the next day for texas to attend the funeral since the only family my aunty had over there was my kuya alvin and uncle levi. everyone else was on my uncle jays side.the ride there....WAS HELL!!!! frigging how many hours in the vans all cramped en sweaty from all the body heat! hahahaha. same with the ride bacc, heh. well ye at the funeral grnadma cried more. me en ate haydee were quiet . jaren, lauren en ate jayne never met aunty loli. so i didnt know what they were feeling, but of course they still cared about her. the burial was held the next day. after everone left the chapel en they gave the family some time alone, grandma broke down the harder than ever. my mom en her sisters cried louder than i ever heard, ate haydee started crying, en i couldnt hold et in either i cried for the first time in a long time. lauren en ate jayna even got teary eyed, maybe for a aunty they never met...or maybe because they hated seeing everyone sad, like i do, i wuldnt know heh.after that we left to eat, en then see uncle levi, en kuya alvins place before we left to drive bacc home. but even though our reason was sad. that trip was actually a good thing. because on this trip we werent depressed . we were just a little sad ye noe? but it WAS a good trip because so many times we were happy en laughing en bringing each other up jus having a great time because we were all together. hahaha so0o0o many great times. all in jus 4 days. ate, lauren, en me all sed it kinda sux that it had to take that big of bad news to get us all together as a big family again. en its tru,....so yeah...take advantage to let ur family noe u care, en spend time with them...try not to fight...cause before u noe it...they miight not be there to fight wid n e more.but ye we went back home en after that got into all our heads, the trip wasnt so sad enymore.
well ye jus ta let ye guys noe where i was.
--r3 |
