the night of the flying fucks

have i told you the story about the flying insect, btw?  no?

anyway, it feels like the same night eons ago, only this time, it was a different insect.

the first insect

gords and i were about to go to sleep when he suddenly jumped up from his side of the bed and flung his blanket onto the floor. alarmed, i asked him what happened, especially since have never seen him act this way before.  but before he answered me though, he made sure that whatever was on his blanket was gone.  unfortunately, it was not.  the “whatever” was still clinging tightly onto the blanket, crawling to what it thinks was a safe place…up gords arm.

ugh!  a huge black cockroach!

told gords to take the blanket outside our room and kill the damned thing, but before he could open the door, the freaking thing flew.  it fucking flew towards where niko was sleeping!  of course, i grabbed the baby and ran to the other side of the room.  niko, who was rudely woken up from his deep sleep by the sudden upward acceleration, was now making his annoyance show by crying as loud as his little lungs could allow.  and, trust me, for such small lungs, it was an ear-splitting cry!

then i was yelling with niko as the huge black thing flew towards us and then flew back to niko’s side of the bed to God knows where, but before it hid itself, i got a good glimpse of the  thing.  it was not a coakroach, as i feared, but it was a huge black beetle, the kind that i played with as a kid but fears now as an adult.

naturally, told gords to find the beetle as i don’t want it crawling on me when am sleeping, or worse, crawling on the baby and biting him!  but gords couldn’t find the ugly thing, so i placed niko on his bed and helped gords.  (the baby, btw, wouldn’t stop crying until i placed him down on his bed and he was flat on his stomach and fast asleep.) but after about an hour or two, i think, of looking for the beetle, gords finally gave up and went to sleep.

but i couldn’t just sleep and ignore the fact that the freaking insect was inside our room!  it was still alive, for crying out loud, and it might still crawl over us.  so i did what any OC mom would do (not look for the beetle till i locate it though.  am not that OC!  hehehe), leave the lights on all throughout the night and watch over niko.  oh, i did get some shuteye though, but the thought of the huge beetle never fails to startle me awake.  needless to say, it was a very rough night for me, a night interrupted by intermittent sleeping and watchful guarding.

and the first thing i did when niko woke up the next day and after i took him up to his lola was to look for the beetle in broad daylight, and what do you know, it was clinging onto the window’s screen by niko’s bed, the very same place where it flew to a few hours ago.  of course, i refused to touch the damned thing, so i called alvin and told him to take the beetle outside.  in broad daylight, it doesn’t seem as huge as it was during the night.

but still, a flying insect inside your room at night will always, always rob you of sleep.

the second insect

and last night was no different, mind you, only this time, it was a real deal flying cockroach!  rudely woke gords up to kill it, but his reflexes were too slow so it got away (again!), and just like last time, he slept after giving up looking for it.  but not me.  this lady writing this post here had another sleepless night of intermittent sleeping and watchful guarding, all thanks to dear hubby of mine, of course.

i really felt like it was his failure as the man in our little family to find and kill the damned insect!  and ‘coz he couldn’t locate the damned thing and dispose of it the way i want him to dispose of it, i prayed the same prayer i prayed the night of the flying beetle.

“Lord, sana dai ako o si niko kamangan o kagaton kang insektong ito.  kung may kakagaton man lang po ito, ang agom ko na lang po.  thank you!”

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