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XXXII. First Gifts
Planned things often do not happen. Their date at the Mariano Ancestral House didn’t go through. Puzzled by Gwyneth’s disagreement for Essi and Oneil to go there, Essi is running out of choices to spend time with the man. If she would say how worried she is that Oneil’s plan will not happen, Oneil might find out that Essi has been observing him these past few days. She can only have these kinds of secret thoughts while walking from her house to buy a late-night coffee mix to a sari-sari store.
While waiting for the store clerk to give her the coffee mix, the electricity went out in the entire Bayanihan. It is all dark and night has become eerie at the people’s sound of awe. People are in a rush to plug out their appliances to avoid complications when the electricity returns.
“Are you okay, miss? Please wait for a bit, we have to prepare the emergency lights,” the clerk said since he was still not able to find Essi’s preferred coffee mix.
“It’s alright,”
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