"I'm confused," she said to her mother when they're back at home.
A while ago, she listened to the conversation between her mother and the man that was insisting to be called uncle Lucas. The conversation between them is a mix of English and Tagalog but she understood most of it, based on their body language, and because they spoke mostly in English.
From what she understood, the man that wasn't their relatives but made her call him uncle Lucas, is the son of her father's first love. The zen garden in their house was made by her father when they were both young, as a promised to return. But her father ended up marrying his first wife -- the mother of Takashi-nii and Yukiko nee-san.
And since his father didn't return to Cebu, uncle Lucas' mother married too. But her father came back to Cebu when he already established his company and he already divorced his first wife.
