Silva, Marinella Mae

The Safe House

By Sandra Nicole Roldan

A house is build to become home. In the story in a middle class subdivision theirs is an open
house for everyone where they can be fed get money and treated their wounds. The girl taught
that those people who visit them day and night are her relatives gathering and talking important
things sometimes during children's parties. Too many faces and names that she can’t even
remember. Years passed and those people comes more often, the girls mother left the house
and his father was captured by the police. She and his brother live with their grandparents,
sometimes the girl sleep in the cell of her father getting nightmare about war. War where their
house is destroyed. As the years passed she realize that those peoples are the rebels against
President Ferdinand Marcos and not her really relatives.
Safe house a secret place where the rebels are safe to gather, treated and communicate away
from the authorities in time of Martial law. They use events to cover their secret meetings
A simple and safe house for an innocent girl blinded by the truth. She thought those people are
her relatives to trust them but years later when she realize those people are strangers and their
house is not safe.
Bandages indicates that they are fighting in other group maybe soldiers of the government that
may leave wounds into their bodies while nails represents that they are being caught by the
authorities means the man that has the bandage still survive the fighting.