Five months before Real decided to continue his study, his father and mother separated. When they were still together, Real's father worked almost 24 hours on the farm, dark and night, rain and shine. Walking 7 kilometers everyday to reach their rubber tree farm and roamed around coconut farm.
Those tiredsome and unsleepy days made his father sick, admitted to the hospital and almost died because of fatigue. Before his father's sickness Real accompanied his father wherever it went to find money to support his mother on the other municipality, since it was on college that time, continuing her study.
One time, the price of rubber per kilo was getting higher and they sell the harvested liquidified rubber for $20 dollars, and even the copra had a high price. When they got home, Real thought that they will be having a fish or chicken for dinner but it wasn't. Instead, their viand is salted fish and sardines full of salt to be a budget viand for a day or two.
Real asked, "father, is this our viand? why not buy fish or chicken so that we can eat meat sometimes. His father replied," all the money was sent to your mom and brother, it is okay son, we can pick up wild vegetables, and salted fish is so yummy. Don't worry, when you mother finishes her study and got a job, we'll always eat meat for viand", and her dad smiled but deep inside we know what he felt.
Sometimes their meals would be a glass of rice full of taro and banana, sometimes they doesn't eat they were just going to sleep without eating and Real while on bed always cried.
One day, his father decided to pawn 3/4 hectar of their coconut farm as his mother needed a big amount for thesis and graduation stuffed. When his father recieved the money, he immediately boarded a boat and met his wife.
His father go directly to the owner of the boarding house and said, "ma'am I will pay the past 4 months balance of my wife and pay w months advance as well". While his father is counting the money, a Php 1,000 bill was fell on the ground. It fell slowly that the moment became slowed. While the old lady looked at the bill falling, he confess to Real's father ,"Your wife has another man here"! and the old lady cried because she knew that earning those money wasn't easy on Real's father. The time paused in a while, and the reaction of Real's father cannot be explained. Immediately he grab the money and told the old lady," Let his man pay all the bills". His father went home.
From far away, Real saw his father, he cheered and said loudly," father, did you bring bread from another place?? He looked so happy seeing his father but when his father was approaching, Real noticed that his father's eyes were red and it was because of crying. Real asked," father, are you okay?" His father cried and hugged his son, " No son, always remember that I love you, I love our family but I can't take it anymore. It does hurt, but nothing I can do, this is for our own good, I decided to separate your mother. She has another man. Real's vision got black out and cried.
He always asked loudly, " What is she looking for?!!!! We gave everything! We chose to have salt as viand, skip meals and this is what she did"? They didn't care about the money that time, they just save it. Since they were used of having no money.
Days past, Real's eyes always looked after his father. It drunk and smoke alone even before he didn't. Real cooked for them because his father was still on a stage where he can't accept why his wife did so.
After a week, his father said, "Real? let us begin again with a fresh and healthy living, let us move on. We cannot undo what was already done, it hurts but we need to heal, it leaves a big scar but we need to face. The situation disabled as for a while but we need to stand and continue to move forward.
They begun working on the farm, they used the money to repair their house, buy food for a month or two and some kitchen materials, and a small token for theirselves.
When Real got sicked he can't uttered the word ''mother", because it was already not on his side anymore. The care of a mother is different on a father's care. But he endured it and he became strong mentally and emotionally. He chose not to play with friends, he chose to accompany his father everyday, because he knew that being alone was not easy.
They worked together in the farm and he learned how to worked and produced copra and charcoals out of coconut shell. His fathere said," You must know how to work here on the farm so that when I became old or passed away, you already know how to manage this farm". Real also taught by his father on how to tap a rubber tree to produce liquid stain from it. This liquid chemical when dry became rubber and used to made slippers and any materials made from rubber.
Alone, Real knows already how to do farming with coconuts and rubbers. They leave their house at exactly 5 am and went home at 6 pm. One day while they were working, Real's father felt a pain on his hips and it clicked like a sound of a broken bone and laid down.
Real immediately ran and asked, " father what happened? He replied, "I cannot stand son. Real immediately give assistance to his father and placed him on the bench and laid it down slowly. His father uttered, "I think the vein on my hips was disaligned or it is because of my Urinary Tract Infection (UTI).
Real called a tricycle and accompanied his father to their home and his father laid down and relaxed. His son went to pharmacy and ask medicine for his father. A day passed and his father still can't walk. Real always assist his father whenever it would release its body waste.
Real was forced to work alone in the farm to support hisself and his father's medication and food. Then that was the time when a coconut fell on his forehead and made him realized to continue his study, because of the decision of Real made his father cure his illness miraclely as stated on chapter 5.