At five o’clock in the morning, Catherine took Erlin and her mother to Jollibee for breakfast. As the eatery in the neighborhood would start to serve food at six, she had no choice but to proceed to the nearest fast food that was open for twenty-four hours.

“Lin, there’s a vacant seat over there. Go and wait for me, I’ll just order something to eat.” Catherine didn’t bother to ask them what kind of food that they would prefer to eat because it was their first time to be in the fastfood and for sure they would just let her choose.

Catherine ordered three breakfast chickenjoy with hot choco as...