at the right end of the table, and an old-looking wireless telephone. The interior decora
had just dropped it off some minutes ago. An address was wri
ought the paper out. She made the sign
r owed my father", she read out slowl
eally go smoothly for them, he never borrowed from anyone. There were times he'd talk
llars from my father's company, to pay back
arth would my father do such a thing? To think t
ed in the envelope. Do well to go through it and
out the contract paper. At the bottom right side o
care of her needs and that of her younger siblings, and her bedridden m
act paper. Her heart skipped a beat w
oan within the stipulated time, my daughter, Al
ly offered her to these people in exchang
lock. She closed at two everyday, but today seemed different. She repla
. She needed to rush home to inform her poor mother about the disheart
street was quieter than normal. It w
would be no food for them to eat. Their only means of survival was the coffee shop t
ay through, and she had run out of money. Her younger siblings had stopped going to school be
und, she could hear the voic
she was said to be the next oldest in the house. The chil
at on the third floor. She quietly knocked at the
ack early today", the g
younger than Alice and called her "anty"
girl, trying to hide her
ual", she answered an
wooden table at the center. The television was there, but it served no purpose. There was
er was on the bed as always, a small tabl
pulled a stoo
Is there any problem?", the
man was able to keep track of the time her daughter returned from work. Whenever she h
o break the news to her mother, but she couldn't figure out h
unusual to the woman, and she
ay?", the woman asked with
t do that", she manag
home earlier than us
or me to do", she an
an share it with me", the woman reache
ourage to talk to her mother about the loan "M
gatively."None that I know of. You know how much
ght this to me at the office. It's from a company I guess.
husband was a diligent man, borrowing was somethin
believe that he used me as a collateral ligame
you so much, he wouldn't do such a
their father so much, she was his favorite child. Sh
money?", her mo
ndred thousand dollars? It would break her. After all,
three hundred thousand
need such money for? How do we repa
. She was not prepared to recei