Marco Fernando Jr. sat in seat 4b looking out the window of the plane, watching it taxi down the NAIA runway. He couldn't believe that after two years of being away from their house that he would be coming back from Shanghai, China. He smiled and sat in his chair and lowered the belt attached to it.
"Oh My Dear Philippines!"
A few hours after the plane landed at noon he allowed himself to choose blue jean shorts and a white polo t-shirt, and a pair of rust-brown men's sandals that he got from a shopping SM mall was on his feet. He wiggled his toes out of the sandals and looked down at his laptop. He plays a chess game on the internet. It was his turn. He checked exactly where he could move a pawn, just so he could enter his opponent's domain. After some decisive thought, he moved his pawn to the right of the third chess piece on the board.
Marco Fernando Jr. went home to Bacoor City, Cavite where his mother's house is, near Molino Boulevard.