Back to the Wooden House

"Space." I needed it, George said.

" What?" Albrecht heavily put the empty bamboo mug on the table.

" And then... how long is that space for this spacious world? I could really feel that this isn't just your decision, maybe something had happened." Albrecht murmured.

" Its okay, I already have a heavy heart, don't put too much weight over this bumpy situation, it choked me." George whispered with his exhausted eyes out of a sleepless night.

" Have you done something wrong?"

" Yes. I'm guilty."

" What is it?" Albrecht curiously asked.

" I stole twice."

" What? haha!" Albrecht laughed while Baldur just pulled a seat beside the table.

" You stole. What is it, bro, so that we can help analyze whether you'll return it or not." Baldur seriously reiterated.

George pulled the baby shirt from his bag and showed it to them.

"What is it?" Then Albrecht tried to hold it but George twisted his arm a little.

" Ah! ah! heyyy! what you're doing to me!" Albrecht complained.

" Your hands are dirty, give that to Baldur who's now washing his hands."

Baldur properly wiped his hands and took the mysterious cloth. He rotated it twice and had a perfect view of it, at last.

" Wow! its a cute baby shirt." He smirked.

"Is she pregnant?" Albrecht was smiling, looking at him.

" No, she just sew it in preparation but she just made it a secret and kept it away from me but I stole it before we proceeded to station one, prior to the attack. I like it very much, so this is my first sin. Until now she's doubting that I stole it. Secondly, I was curious if why she'd ripped some of the journals' pages, so I stole those but she caught me using my footsteps marked on the flour powder scattered on the floor. She really ordered me to lift my hands and searched the ripped pages - then she found them in my pocket." He was so haggard watching to the fire from the stove.

There was silence. Albrecht became serious and sat down filling his mug with hot water, put some 'salabat' and a little sugar.

" Brother, what do you think is the best thing to do. Do you feel of returning it or you still wanted to keep it." Albrecht said.

" Hmm...its a treasured thing for her. Imagine she allowed you to kick out yourself just to test you whether you'll surrender that cute baby shirt. You should have asked it from her instead. Ah no! hmm, of course we have to understand you dreaming of a baby with her. Yes, I think this is a proper mindset Albrecht that we should empathize his views over stealing. It isn't really stealing I guess. You're married, its your bedroom, her thing is your thing as well...." Baldur stopped when George intervened.

" She put a demarcation and boundary to where I can only walk by inside the granite house. If I get inside the room when she's asleep, the number of months being this way is extended and yes, I already got a top up month just because of what I have done." George bowed and shook his head.

" So before you returned the ripped pages, have you read it? what were the secrets written inside? Sr. Sibal was a worst writer. That was also the reason if why I thought I'd like to reap one page of it because he write there, " Albrecht was naughty during his puberty stage. He scooped his fart and ran to throw it to Baldur. Baldur cried the hardest and Edward whipped the older boy. I laughed a lot with these kids." See that." Albrecht ended.

" Good that you did not rip it because its true." Baldur smiled.

" But did you receive any from my farts, ha? Its all gone when reaches to you, you all terrible." Albrecht smiled.

" Shh....the problem here is the baby shirt and not the fart from the last decade. If I return the baby shirt, its too difficult. I said I would stay here for a while, huh!" He shook his head again.

" What if I will secretly return it." Albrecht offered.

" But I don't feel of returning it, no!"

" ...and why we're discussing of returning it, Yes! we'll not return the baby shirt. You're the father, yes, you are." Albrecht appeared to be like an angry father.

" Haha!" The two laughed at him as George threw him a ribonette lemongrass.

" Hmm...at least I'm getting obssessed over this baby shirt, its my only happiness since I kicked out myself. That's just my feeling, I don't know but maybe, I'm just excited. Hah! whatever happens, I'll never return this. Here, I'll gonna make a letter. I'll accept that I stole it then will ask this from her."

" Wow! that's a good idea, bro." Baldur commented.

"I can go there tonight so I can send that letter. I even wanted to comment more but Baldur is winking his eye on me bro, hmm, so I should be silent." Albrecht said.

George smirked and prepared the letter admitting that he had kept something from her.

"By the way, thanks to both of you and please give the liquors to Henry and Amado's teams, just remind them to drink in moderation." Subsequently, he went inside the bedroom, rolled on bed and deeply slept the whole day."

Meanwhile, in the granite house.

"Hi Mag, George cooked for you, taste them and you'll feel better." Albrecht smiled.

" Wow! thanks kuya."

" Mag, hmm, he sent you a letter."

" Haha, please return that to the sender and tell him to come. I've decided to read the contents of the ripped pages with him." She smirked while tasting the soup.

" You're not mad at him?" Abrecht crosschecked .

" No. I didn't even tell him to transfer in the wooden house but he just do it. So, I will cover this soup and the pasty rice. I'll wait for him to return home."

But he's sleeping right now, he just actually woke up so shortly to cook for you and water the angel fruits, then gone to sleep again."

" I'll go there and wake him up." So she covered the food and went down with Albrecht.

At the woden house she found him sleeping and Albrecht just left them.

"George..." She was looking at him, smiling. " Let's go home now, the food is waiting for us, c'mon." She held his hand and picked up some of his things around.

Without further questions he slid down from bed and brought his bag. On their way up to the granite house, both were quiet.