“MOM? How is she?” I stood by my mother’s side at the door, both attentions were in Kayla’s motionless body; she was sitting on the bed while looking outside the glass window. “Lumabas na ang resulta ng CT scan niya. Ayon sa espesyalista, wala siyang nakitang sugat o abnormal sa utak ni Kayla.” “Kung gano’n, bakit hindi siya nagre-react sa presensiya natin? She does not look okay to me.” “I don’t know what to say, Julian. There are cases where one intent to forget what happened to themselves. They would rather forget, rather than feel the same pain they had experienced. It could be considered trauma. Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of…a severely distressing event.” Nagpakawala siya nang malalim na buntung