Talin went to change his clothes and returned his uniform. He was off from work. As he walked out of the store, he saw Mang Nonoy and Andero waiting outside. Mang Nonoy gestured. He lifted his left hand and gestured to Talin to join them. Tal joined and sat at the outside chairs of the store with them. Mang Nonoy and Andero's faces were sadder than his.
They reminisce about how they had gotten these hard-working and smart youths and then how much they learned to accept life because of them. Andero remembered that Iko once told how she left her parent's house as an unlucky daughter and was labeled a jinx. She was seen as the bad luck of their family.
At the time of her childhood, her father lost his job and got involved in a fatal accident that took his life. So many bad occurrences had surrounded her existence and it was a legacy that proved impossible to live down no matter how hard Iko tried. So in the end she had done her best to live up to it.
