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Sunday is normally just a regular working day for me. Yes I do work on Sundays, and no we are not a call center. Anyways, last sunday as I thought was just a regular day for me, although I was a bit busy because my boss is in town. At around 9 pm it was even a very good night for me. My two kumpare (Gen and Abe) fetch me and my kumareng Vee in my office, well actually they’ve just waited and parked outside the office building. Vee, my pretty kumare daw, just came back from her 3 weeks mission con vacation in Palawan and Negros. The four of us had dinner in one of the restaurant in Jupiter, Makati. Of course, just as always, we had our usual chit-chats and asaran over dinner. After dinner they drove me off in the corner of Pasay Road and EDSA Makati. Did not brought the car that day, so I just took the bus. The bus ride was a bit longer than usual because it has to go through Alabang then Muntinglupa City, but nevertheless it was also just an ordinary bus trip. Then the ordinary Sunday night trip back home bacame unpleasantly extra ordinary….

While riding the pedicab (it’s a tall bicyle with a side car), a man suddenly hop on the side of it. I though the guy standing outside and hanging on the side was a friend to the pedicab driver, so I didn’t mind him. But after a while I feel a strange eerie quietness between the two men. Then a very sudden detour to the left startled me. I started to panic then shouting, asked the driver where was he taking me. Then another right turn, to the darker side of the road. The guy that was hanging outside took out his gun and pointed it straight to my chest. That very moment, I thought of so many things. If I shouted for help the guy might click the gun and kill me instantly. I thought of my family, my husband, my daughters and son. What will happen to me? What will happen to my family if that bad guy kill me? I was already crying and begging the man not to hurt me. Told him that I will give everything he wants just don’t hurt me for I have kids. Then he asked me to give my mobile phone to him and my wallet. Gave my mobile phone to him, then before I give my wallet to him, I’ve asked him if I could first get all my IDs (since he will not be needing those for sure), then he said ‘just give all your money to me’, but before I could hand all the bills from my wallet he immediately grab them from my hand, then hurryingly left while tucking his gun.

When we we’re going back to the main road, the pedicab driver apologized to me. He said he can not do anything because that guy also pointed the gun on him. Told him that maybe he knows that bad guy and that he was part of it. Told him that I will report him to the police. Of course the pedicab driver denied my allegations, he even convinced me to go to the barangay hall to report what had happened, and so we did. I’ve not been getting enough sleep for two nights now. The entire incident kept on coming back to me. It was really a nightmare