Preludes by Daryll Delgado

DELFIN, JOSEPH CLEMENT C.

         STEM 11 – 03

“Preludes”

By Daryll Delgado

There is a gathering in the municipal hall for the death anniversary of the judge. The children of the judge come home for this important occasion. Later that day, there is a man who collapsed after hitting the highest note of his third song at 3 in the afternoon.

Earlier that day, Nenita was waiting for his Grandson to leave the house to go to the city. She had a nap without her knowing it and dreamed of Willy Revillame her idol. When she woke up, she opened the window but it is so hot there is no wind flowing in the house. Everyone was at the hall for the death anniversary but not Nenita because she doesn’t like the judge’s wife. Nenita sat again at the sofa and turned on the fan and taken that nap again. She saw again Willy saying his condolences for Nenita. After she realized what was happening, she tried to wake herself up and she found herself standing in the living room and felt the presence of her husband. Nenita went to her kitchen to prepare the suman that the judge’s children ordered. She also remembered the herbal drink that she needs to prepare for her husband. So, she go outside picking herbal leaves and she heard her husband singing. She never heard her husband sing this way before. Suddenly, there was a moment of silence around Nenita. She went back inside their house because it was so hot outside enough for an old man to collapse.