"Out, out, out." Grandma tapped Marissa, who had been pretending to be asleep in the hope that her grandma would let her be.

"Maami, what is it?" She yawned to make it seem real.

"What is what? Ehn? What are you doing here? Get up this instant!"

Marissa looked at the bed as she got up. "But this is where I have always slept, na," she protested as she looked at Emma sleeping peacefully on his bed. She wished she could sleep that peacefully as well, oblivious to the turmoil that was building up in her stomach. Even if her grandma had not woken her up, she doubted that she...