A week have passed since I said about them the truth about me and we have continued our daily lives as usual.
The thing about our mother she returned to being normal, more like thats not normal her normal attitude is very cunning and scary.
For now she was busy trying out the recipe's I wrote for her and she started cooking she has asked us to provide her with the ingredients we are lacking. To be honest it was hard I didn't realize they don't have the things I listed so we made it from scratch such as grounding spices and picking up herbs and preserving, processing fruits and milking straight from the cows and so much more.
The lack of electricity is really a pain in the ass since we can't store our stock so I need make it by small batches our else it will rot and will be wasted that it would never be consumed. It is so tiring in the end I just taught mother how to do it.
It was just me being lazy so I passed the responsibility to mother. So here I am gathering herbs and helping Ales with the animals I knew it was coming after all, there is no way I can defy mother she would kill me instantly If I said no.
It was good in some way since this is the first time that I have explored our barangay after all. I appreciated the sight to behold, only trees and small houses and farm lands where we grow our crops where other women work on. Unlike before you can see unending roads, passing cars and colorful houses it really feels that I am inside history books in colorized -- haha.
We just finished doing our job for today so we were going back home.
After we arrived we were all together Ales, I and Norja when normally it is our mother that welcomes us back at home now it is Eya how unusual. Usually mother greets us then Eya only greets me while ignoring both but this time she was waiting for us.
When we were about to enter the smile on her face was pretty wide from ear to ear that was quite creepy its clearly that she was up to something.
She greeted me as usual while ignoring the two.
What did I expect ofcourse she wouldn't greet them so mother followed and greeted us unlike Eya.
"Welcome back Asterio-- Here!"
"Hmm what is this?"
Oh--! OOOOOOH! This feeling and color has she been secretly making this? There is no doubt about it a pair of clothes, unlike what I'm wearing right now which was almost naked only covering the private parts this is the thing I wanted the most since I came here.
This is amazing I haven't told them the procedure how to make clothes, I only drew it on the parchment a week ago while complaining about clothes to think that she really made one for me this girl. If I'm not an adult I may fall for her. The cloth she made for me was rough but it was greatly done made from animal skin and animal fur she even made a leather shoes I'm sure had a hard time making this I'm gonna repay her with something soon.
"Are you the who made this Eya?"
"Yes you're right! You have been complaining a lot about what you wear since you woke up so I decided to secretly make the thing you draw. Unlike what we usually wear we weave them but what you asked for was much more easier to make I only need some animal skin and some grass I'm not sure it turned out like how you draw but I hope this lessen your complaints."
Really-- this girl even if I'm not the friend that she knew. I guess Asterio really was blessed with a great family and a friend I'm so jelous.
"Its quite well done for your first time thank you Eya these really lessened the burden on me. "
It was really shameful to walk around half naked after all.
But unlike what I drew it was a single piece of cloth that romans used to wear but this is better since it covers all my body I can just use some of the left over cloth as underwear and top it with the "bahag" (a traditional clothes of philippines.) and a leather shoes made from animal skin so I don't have to walk bare footed.
I can use it as a vest or belt so I wouldn't catch a cold its pretty much cold here during the night after all and its fairly fashionable I feel like a Europian who wears traditional Filipino clothes it feels quite nice. I get to wear without exposing my body parts and still use traditional cloth.
Another week have passed since Eya made clothes for me. I have gathered quite some attention from others since I have been wearing clothes inside that would gather some rumors and even heard some gossips that it was a cursed clothing -- the gossips have gone wild.
The following day Eya, Ales, Norja and even mother started wearing the same clothes also.
With the help of mother Eya made 4 pieces for me to change into and one for each of them. Because of that we gathered the attention of the whole barangay and the gossip even got worse day by day.
Yara POV :
"This cloth is comfortable isn't it? It's light and easy to move in, now I know why Asterio was like that but to think that you would approach him this way, Eya you have really grown as a woman."
"Its all thanks to you mother, I have realized I have to support him in anyway I can so I wont fall behind."
"Thats great, Asterio really took a liking to you with this just a little more and he'll be yours fu fu fu."
"Yes mother."
"But how did you make this its really impressive."
"I just copied the look of what Asterio has drawn and experimented somethings on the animal skin like the parchment."
"I failed many times but I finally got it and put it all together."