1 The Unknown

I will never forget the night when I first met the one I call 'the unknown" because basically I don't really know the name of the creature.

I was only 5 years old at that time, and this is a real experience for me as a child.

One of the most exciting part of my childhood everytime I am infront of the table aside from measuring my height is pinching a

piece of fried fish everytime my older cousin who lives with us whom we called as "Manang Lucy" fried fish for dinner, doesn't matter if I get hurt because a freshly cooked and taken from a frying pan fish s extremely hot of course.

Biut that is one of the most challenging part of it, how I can be able to bear.the hotness of the freshly fried fish aside from the anger of my mother whenever I am caught, for being undiciplined or not having good manners.

While I was happily readying on my second pinch, I was surprise when I had seen another hand came from the opposite side of the table seemed prepare to have a tag of war

with me over a piece of fried fish.

"Yaiksss , who are you?" I innocently ask the arm, t was an arm 10 times bigger than mine .The arm was very dark and covered with hairs as that of kingkong's arm.

All hairs that I had in my little body risen when I peep down the table because there is no body which the arm is supposed to attached to.

Seeing a cut off ,big dark and hairy arm is something supernatural and scary for me.That was the first time I feel such nervousness in my five years of existence..

I cannot tell my c

.ousin what i've seen, i just kept on hanging on her garterized short.

"Stop doing that", I know my Manang Lucy was irritated by my action."few minutes more and and I am half naked because of you",she complained.

"Nanay, look at Texia, I'm almost half naked because she kept on pulling my short",,she told my mother..

"Come here!", she call out to me angrily.

"I'm done!"... surely i'll get a couple of sticks of spank..But nothing can make me admlt that I am stealing few fried fish to eat before dinner.Couldn't even tell my mother that a cut off,big,hairy and dark arm had compete with me over a piece of fried fish..

"What's wrong?what are you afraid of?", my mother ask me gently. She smiled gently when she saw me tremble with fear.

Instead of a spank my mother hug me and assure me that everything will be alright..

Many years had pass by,now I can laughingly tell my mother and any members of my fanily about that incident.It will be one of my most unforgetable experience as long as I live..

It will always remind me that there are other creatures living in this world aside from humans....