SERVANT GIRL

Her parents were burned to death when she was a child, people belive that if one is born a warlock or a witch then he/she is only capable of evil, but her parents were not. She will always remember what her Papa and Mama told her that no matter what people say what matters is her self-confirmation that she is with God and haven't done anything wrong, she can still hear them in her sleep saying just that. Orphaned and broken she served as help from one household to another where she can no longer count the cruelty she received at a tender age while keeping her being a witch secret. Finally when she was 14, she found her place in the forest living in peace and in solitude. In the forest, she grew different plants that she used to treat different ailments using the herbal book that her ancestors developed, her only connection to a long departed family.

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It took another 14 years when one evening she met a fine looking man of her age, he was sick, hungry and lost when he knocked at her door. She took care of him for days, feeding him with fresh vegetables and healing him with exotic plants until he was well, able and healthy again. It didn't took long to create a tight bond between two souls, he was also an orphan and alone so they decided to stick together in the forest and took care of each other and he didn't care of her being witch, when one has vegetables to eat moreover a reason to live then one could not ask for more.

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One day when they were happily walking in their herb garden, she asked him if he has loved another before she came into his life. Honest and sighing, he answered the question that he once met a girl when he was very young, she was a servant girl in a cruel family and he met her in the market place while she was crying for the money that she was supposed to buy potatoes was stolen from her, she was so afraid but still beautiful and he helped her by giving her the money he earned that day. In return the girl gave her a ripped page from a book and she told him that her mother said this will bring the greatest joy someday and he still kept it not because of the promised joy but because he felt something strange in his heart that day even at a very young age. "Does the page say - Ang gino-o na magbayad sa imo? (God will be the one to repay), she asked. He said yes and she smiled asking for the page then she placed it back to where it should be, her ancestors herbal book. She continued "for my parents told me that God who is the cure more than herbs and He will make sure that all lost will be found and reunited in time amidst birth-right".