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Chapter 65 - Flashbacks (Part 1)

As buttons are on, a ten seconds counting is heard from Dexter's monitor 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Suddenly, a pressurized air filled inside the stand-up transparent cubicle, that made Mj's spirit vacuumed to the tubes connecting from the cubicle towards the human-sized capsule. Everyone in the lab could hear the sound of pressurized air along with Mj's spirit in it, slowly travelling inside the tubes connected to it.

After 5 minutes of 'travelling' a white smoke forming Mj's spirit is seen at the transparent human-sized capsule, descending inside her body. A slight commotion is seen for 3 seconds and then no movement afterwards.....

Inside Mj's subconscious mind, suddenly flashbacks are played like a tape has been rewinded from all the memories she had in her life.

From the time her childhood days on how she grew up on the mountains, helping her Dad in doing household chores, for her Mom don't know and not willing to learn nor do any household chores....

As young as 8 years old, Mj was literally functioned like a mother to her 3 younger brothers, as she's the one taking care of them before and after school hours. In the morning as early as 4 o'clock her and her brother John which was 2 years younger than her, would be awaken by their father and tasked them to fetch 1 big black container that has a 4 gallons capacity filled up with water, at the water pump downhill which was half kilometer away from their house. They would tie the filled up black container into a 5 meters bamboo pole to help balance the weight of the container as Mj and John would lift each end of the bamboo pole with the tied container on it, Mj is at the back end of the pole with the black container near her, and John is on the front end. So the weight of the container was more on Mj's shoulder and lesser on John's. This has been an everyday task in the morning before they even eat breakfast and go to school.

While they were fetching water, their Dad would cook food for their breakfast in preparation for them to go to school, while their Mom was doing basically 'nothing' to help them.

After breakfast, Mj and John would walk and run 'mixed' going to school which was 2 kilometers away from their house, wearing worn out slippers in a rough road and a 'net bag' (which served as their school bags) filled with their notebooks wrapped in a thin plastic bag so that rain could not wet their things inside their 'net bag'.

During 'Recess Time', Mj would sell to her classmates and schoolmates, as their snacks some banana 'turon' wrapped in a Lumpia wrapper with brown sugar melted on it, which was cooked by their Dad earlier along with their breakfast.

After school, Mj, John and some of their neighbor kids would play 'Doctor Quack' as the 'Doctor' would chase after them, after their tangled chain of arms and legs disentangled. For this game is the easiest way of running away from the 'doctor' and the quickest way to run towards a 2 kilometers distance home. Mj was the quickest to arrive home since she was the fastest runner among them.

As they arrived home, there were times that they were asked to fetch a big black container of water again, and there were times not.

"We were tired from school running, and upon arriving home we are gonna fetch water again?huh! My muscles are becoming bigger now like a guy when I am actually a girl, you know, Papa." Smirked and complained Mj.

"Hushhh, stop complaining. Or else we won't have water to drink, cooked with and wash our dishes, you know. You choose." Dad Bart tamed her complains.

"O-okay." Mj retorted. She then looked at her 3 younger brothers and started to play with them as their eldest and acted as their 'mother' for their own biological mother was too busy chit-chatting with their neighbors and would only come home when it's already dark and it's 6p.m. time for dinner then.

When it's dinner time, Mj is the one feeding her younger brothers while their mother would just look at them eating on her own plate. Mj was even the one who was feeding milk to her youngest brother Arthur, in a feeding bottle and changed his cloth diapers with saftey pins at the sides.

In short, their mother was practically doing 'nothing' and very lazy, as she didn't function well as a mother to them, nor be a good wife to their Dad.

During Friday nights Mj would asked and remind her Mom to take away the safety pins from the used cloth diapers so that, when she will handwash it on Saturday morning, Mj would not be hurt and poked from the safety pins.

"Yes, yes, I already have done that. It's safe for you to handwash it all."

"Okay, thank you Mom."

But mostly if not often, Mom Mione will only take away the safety pins from the top 3 cloth diapers, for she couldn't bare the foul smell of it, if she digs to the bottom. For in her mind, that's not her job to do for she grew up from a rich family where she just have to command any of their 5 maidservants to do whatever task she wants it done.

After she married Bart who is intelligent but came from a poor family, she couldn't accept it herself that she would have a to live a poor life with Bart and their 4 children, that's why she put's the 'motherhood' and household chores responsibilities upon Mj's shoulders.