DAUGHTERS

Vesta point of view.

Since the police were pushing to let us turn ourselves in, Fada suggested we should go on a break.

A break that would see us get out of the country for a period of time.

And he mandates us not to have a single training session wherever they go. He thought if anyone with good intelligence saw us train, he would find out who we were.

All the daughters then left all their separate ways except for Swiss, and me, who went to the same place.

We both went to Australia. It was Swiss who chose to go to Australia, and I said okay with it without hesitation.

Fada gave all of us enough money to spend.

We had so much fun, we went to cinemas, and also spent our time at restaurants.

We had an Australian dish which we normally went for, over and over.

"Vegemite with fried eggs".

There were local dishes too. And they were good, but what we enjoyed most was we got to place our hands on a kangaroo.

Mother personally asked Swiss about our journey because she was the youngest. Although all my sisters were of the same age. Only Swiss had the latest month.

Mother was closer to her than all of us. She wanted to make sure she was okay over there. 

We were at a beach one afternoon, and we wore bikinis. Then, I noticed a mark on Swiss's wrist. 

When I asked her about the mark, it clearly shows she had no idea how it got there.

She told me she grew up seeing it there. She said she had thought of it too, to try and figure out how it got there, but she had no idea.

Due to her lack of parents when growing up, she had no one who could explain to her how it got there, so she forgot about it.

We had a great time in Australia. All the experiences over there were lovely. I wish Fada could give us more time like that.

Ace's point of view.

Fada mandated us to go on a break away from home. The icing on the cake of this break that made it a lovely experience was, Fada compulsory it that we should do away with anything that has to do with our job.

That was the first time I hadn't thought of training or planning a mission since I was born.

I took my time out in Brazil. When I mentioned to the family that I was going to Brazil, they were surprised. Oscar asked me about the reasons I chose to go to Brazil. I seriously don't know, I just want to go to South America.

In Brazil, they love soccer matches. Almost all the streets have been to play a soccer match.

I wasn't sure a day had gone by during my two-week stay that I hadn't played a soccer match.

There were male sections, and there were female sections too. And, there were the mixed-up ones also.

They made it more competitive by staking money. They always wanted me to play. 

When some minutes passed three in the afternoon, they were already at my hotel calling me to come for the match.

I made lots of friends because I always wanted to try it, even though I wasn't good at it. But I am well fit for it, and the major reason they wanted me to play was because of my money.

I had lots of money that Fada gave me for my journey, my team kept losing, and I kept staking. I stake as much as I could.

The team I was on wasn't bad, but they kept losing. They weren't aware of me being a super-observant.

They communicate on their local dialet so they could share my money. But who cares, I just wanted to jave fun.

I love eating, so immediately I got to Brazil, I hired a girl that scort with me in the hotel, and she cooked for me always.

It was a lovely time out... A nice lovely break.

Oscar's point of view.

Mine break was really far away. I went to Africa, not just Africa. But to the south of the continent.

Cape Town in South Africa was where I went to.

It's one of the capitals of the country, and it's a lovely city that has a view of the ocean.

I met a guy there who also came for vacation. He was Scottish. I always found it hard to understand his English. I nod my head, and fake a smile during our conversation most times.

He kept me accompanied during my stay over there.

He's really into me, he wanted me to be in a relationship with him.

Relationship? I had not put that in my head since I had been beaten for it at the orphanage home. 

Miles, that was the name of the boy I wanted when I was nine. I do sneak out of the girls' hostel to the boys' hostel in the middle of the night to check on him.

We were kids then, nothing happened between us. We just wanted to be in the same place at the same time always.

I can't forget how we were well beaten that day, when I mistakenly slept off until dawn, forgetting to return to my hostel, and the nuns caught me there. 

The Scottish guy made me feel like being in a relationship, though I never offered him any positive action or word. Fada never trained us to think about relationships beyond that of our family.

I might have to discuss that with mother sometimes.

Mince's point of view.

At the orphanage home, I had a friend that always spoke about the Philippines. Due to that, I have always wanted to go to that Oceanian country.

When Fada gave us the vacation away from home, that country was what came to my mind first.

Majorly, most of them were fishermen or women. I joined them to fish. We always fished, not just fishing, but harvesting all the sea animals we could get.

In the evening, the family I stayed with mostly ate seafood, well dished with vegetables. I never get tired of having one dish after another. I didn't spend my money because there were meals for me at home.

So I returned the favor by giving them thousands of dollars when I left.