When she had just moved into Aunt Lupe's house, she often saw Billy playing basketball inside their yard. When he noticed her watching him play, he climbed the fence that was not high and moved to their yard. He met her and that's where their friendship began.
Aside from Aunt Lupe and Uncle Delfin, this is the reason why she is used to not being with her mother. If then and she loved to go to America, now openly admit that she will never want to go there just to find good fortune.
She will not exchange the family she found with Aunt Lupe and Billy for the Green card she will have when she goes to America. She is not like her mother who was able to forget her own child just because she wanted to advance and stay abroad.
"When I grow up, Aki," she often heard Billy say. "I will play in the PBA. I can be with the players I admire there.
His dad even buys him magazines that feature PBA and NBA players. In addition it has tapes and posters of its favorite basketball players.
In its room, there are Michael Jordan's large posters. It has always been part of the league of their subdivision that competes in adjacent subdivisions. In high school, it was still part of their school team. It also has MVP medals in some trophies.
If then and his dad was very happy, you gradually replaced him with disgust when he saw that he was really determined to be a professional basketball player. Hia dad's BS Biology course forced his to take it. His dad is a doctor so he wants Billy to be a doctor too.
He said that his father often preached to Billy. It is said that it does not benefit from playing basketball. Basketball as a career was silly, according to his Daddy. It was as if his life had been gambled because that profession was uncertain.
"That dream is a blow to the moon," said Daddy . With so many people like you who are obsessed with basketball and want to be professional players, do you think you still have the chance? There are many who are better and taller than you. "
She understands Billy's daddy. It just wants to improve Billy. But he forgot to consider what his friend wanted. Billy would like to have a Computer Engineering course like her. But it just followed his dad's wishes.
He did not try out during his first and second years of college because his dad strictly forbade it. It was only recently that he decided to try to join the varsity team because that is exactly what his whole being was shouting.
It tried to forget the dream but it failed. So even though his Daddy was unaware of it, he still try it out. And as expected, it passed immediately. The coach of the varsity team wondered why he only tried then.
The pity she felt for seeing the joy on Billy's face was unforgivable. She hopes the day will come when his Daddy will understand this and support him as he really wants.
It is fun to think that she can be with it in every trial and success he can achieve along the way. They had been the best of friends since grade school. Their friendship has also come a long way.
She Doesn't need to be with her mother to complete hier life. She is happy that her only companion is Aunt Lupe and Billy because his Uncle Delfin has been dead for two years. She and her aunt are the only ones together in life.
Her Aunt Lupe was a former public school teacher and Uncle Delfin was an architect. They were not lucky enough to have children, so she was considered their only child. Aunt Lupe only cares about sewing, crocheting, and gardening.
She is content with her life. She's happy even without her mother. According to her Aunt Lupe, her mother allegedly had a child. "Alyssa" is the name. That was four years old. They are different from hier mother's world, maybe that's just the way it is. She was very angry with her mother.
The large amount it sends does not match her needs here. At times, she even wanted to forget that there was an Almira de Guzman Smith in her life.
"REALLY, Jen, will Billy join the varsity team right away," Akiko said proudly to her friend and classmate. "The coach said, why did he just try out. Starting this semester, he is already on the varsity basketball team of our campus.You'll see how good he plays, "she continued excitedly. You are like his mother who is very proud of her child.
"I hope you see how you look at these times, Aki," she said with a laugh.
"Why? What do I look like?" she asked ten times here.
"Your eyes are just so bright and your smile reaches your ears," her comments widened.
She frowned and stepped aside. "If you only knew how good Billy is at playing basketball. In our subdivision, his team will always be champions. I'm sure he will go far. He will get to the PBA. And when that happens, I will be the first - it will be his first official fun, "it mimics what she often says about Billy.
"Hey!" she rebuked her for it.
"I will do everything to help Billy. I am always here behind him. I will support him wherever he goes," she continued.
"I will do all that because I love him even though he does not know," she added.
To be continue...
