* I'm sorry I am really not a good writer of a story so I took hard time thinking for it. Ma'am said to write a short story, but every time I try to write it is always long and I am just stopping because I am tired.
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Ten years now had passed and I can still remember the first time I saw him. I was attracted to his shocked little brown eyes. He gave me a blue rose which made my whole day complete that time. I also remember our first ‘Best friend Date’ when I felt hard to breathe like my diaphragm was squeezing in too much excitement and happiness that I felt that time. Let me tell you our short story but a little long too. Because our love story all started at the garden.
“Take my hand, I’ll teach you to dance. I’ll spin you around, Won’t let you fall down.
Would you let me lead? You can step on my feet. Give it a try, It’ll be alright.” *Strum*Strum*
I was at the garden of our school, when I heard a very resuscitating voice strumming his guitar. I did not pay attention to him since I want to be alone in that place. It’s been 5 weeks ago when I transferred here in this school. I transferred here because my parents preferred me to study here in the city than in our province Cavite. They allowed me to study here even though I am just alone and my friends were at Cavite. Since I am new hear I don’t have yet friends and I am really not interested of having too. Yes, you can say that I have an affluent side of myself. It’s just that I’m tired of answering their questions. Question here answer there, answer here question there. Like. “What’s your name?” ”From where are you?” ”Do you have a boyfriend?” ”Can I have your number?” “Can I court you?” By the way, as I was saying the strum of guitar and his voice is getting louder as seconds pass by. I stand and tried to look for him and I was shock when I turned around I saw him, he was white, tall, with messy hair and he wears an eyeglass which fits him so much making him more cute and conspicuous and because I was shocked I said “Mother of white wraith!”. He was a bit shocked on me so he stops singing and gets the blue rose from his bag and handed it to me. “You’re so CUTE! Can you be my friend?” I get the flower and smiled.
Starting that day we used to be with each other since were also classmate and both taking up Theatre Arts as a junior here. He used to give me things that he said will serve as his remembrance as if he will always leave. He also used to protect me from those garrulous girls, who always talk about me and spoil my personality to others. And most of our free time we are always at the garden in where we first met. We became best friends and that garden became our rendezvous. We fill that garden with good memories, picture there, picture here and everywhere. One Friday morning he asked me out. ‘‘Be ready at 6:00 pm I’ll fetch you here outside your gate. Arrange yourself we will have a formal tryst. It’s a formal Best friend date. Anyway you don’t need it anymore, you are already gorgeous. Just always wear your smile for me and it’s already superfluous.’’ I blushed and waved goodbye to him. I look at the clock its two o’clock because we are always half day during Friday. I prepared for my best dress, best sandals, practice for my best hair and make-up style. I also allotted one hour of beauty rest and I even tried wearing babushka. After all my preparations, I am now ready to go. Time check it’s 5:45. As waiting I was dreaming of a very romantic scene in a very fairyland-like garden. “Ahhh. Time Check it’s…5 …4 …3 …2 …1. YESS!”
*Beep Beep*
Wow exactly 6:00 pm. How punctilious. I hurriedly went out of our house and I am not wrong it’s him already with his very handsome attire. He opened the car’s door for me. And we have on our way. It was a very peaceful night the moon and the stars were happily sleeping in heaven and there was also silence in the car. When I look at him he will just smile at me which is very unusual. I opened the player and played the song ‘ENCHANTED’ by Taylor Swift. Our first destination is our school, I was surprised because I wasn’t expecting for our first best friend day will be in our school. He led me to the garden and as I enter the garden I think my eyes and mouth are getting wider. I was really taciturn because of what I saw I feel like I am in heaven. There are many candlelight surrounding the path way. There are lots of blue balloons, blue rose, blue teddy bears, blue roses and blue petals of flowers. He is very sweet because he really used my favourite colour even if his favourite is violet. And when we reached the pavilion I the blue butterfly chandelier at the middle really caught my attention.
He pulled the chair for me and asked me to sit. Then he also sits and started the conversation. “Good Eeeeeve! Best friend! Serra.., let’s cherish every moment of this night.” What happened to him it seems like he wants to tell something more to me. I can’t take it anymore so I spoke already. ‘Jan, what’s with you? Are you a depot or something?’ ‘What? A depot? You mean a storehouse?’ he asked me. “Yah! A depot of surprises. You’re a spoiled son! Where are you getting all these affluent stuffs? And I am thankful that almost all the time that I need you are always there. You always make me happy. Yes, I know that you are my best friend. I am just afraid that someday you might find ennui in my company. I’m afraid, how can I ever pay you with what you are doing to me? ””Nothing just smile for me and my day was already complete. Just as simple as that. Because I don’t want to see my best friend suffering. Just always give me your sweetest smile and I will be contented already.” There was a bit of awkwardness after that and I was blushing but then he cut it and said. ‘Here taste this parfait. በ_በ”. I tasted it and it was so GOOD!”Wow! It’s very good! በ_በ” YUMYUM!”. “Wow really? It is really good? I prepared that!” he said. “WHAAAAT! WOOOW! I LOVE YOUUUU!” I vociferate. He was shocked for what I said so I added some more words. “I LOVE YOU! Best friend! You are the best best friend EVERR !”. “Serra, Can I ask you something?” “What?” “After how many years after our college degree do you like me to get married?” “Uhm, after 5 years maybe.” After eating he stood up and got his guitar and played a song for me which am the “Summer Song” by Silent Sanctuary he sang the song up to the chorus and after that he kneeled in front of me. “Best friend, I’m sorry but I love you. I tried to stop these but I can’t. Since that I saw you I can’t erase your face in my mind already. Then I tried to search for you and what my luck is that you are my classmate. During boring classes I just choose to stare at you” I was shocked of what he is telling me right now. Now this is a fairytale because I thought that I am the only one falling for him. But what will I do? I don’t know what to say. ”Serra...” he continued... “Do you feel the same way too? Please answer me honesty. Even if I will be hurt.”. “John you know what?.. I am exactly feeling the same way too.” After that, he lifted his head up and he put out a ring and proposed to me “Can you be my future wife after 6 years?”
After what happened that night, we became in a relationship up to our last year of stay in our school. On our graduation day, he confessed to me that he will go abroad and study engineering there. After hearing that, I felt sad like I can’t hear any voices around me but only his voice saying those things. I didn’t go with him at the airport but before he rides the airplane he called at me. And ending that call was also the meaning of ending our relationship. He chose to leave me here for himself.
After two years of what happened I am still angry to him that time, I entered the music industry here in the Philippines were I wrote songs for broken hearted. I am bitter to sweet lovers and everything. And after one two years, I stopped my career because I found out that I have a breast cancer. Every night I cried to God why it’s always me. “At first you let me study from the school which is so far to my friends, then you get my only love and let him leave me and now you are now going to get my life? But I am not yet happy! I am not yet seeing him! I don’t want to die!” I am not helping the doctors to cure myself I don’t eat and when I am confined at the hospital I can slowly observe the gradual baldness of my hair. I am crying everyday will he ever love me if I was this ugly now?”
One time I got tired of crying and due to too much depression slept 10 hours and when I woke up it is already 7 o’clock and I felt someone holding my hands. Probably this is not my mother because my mother’s hand is quite rough. When I lean on my side I was very shocked when I saw that it was John. I sit in my bed and start crying silently and then suddenly I felt a warm feeling. And it was john who is hugging me. Since that day he promised to me that he will ever going to leave me anymore and that he will love me forever even what hairstyle do I wear as long as I am giving him the sweetest smile that he wants.
One afternoon I was sitting at my wheelchair and he is the one pushing it. He push it until we reach a pavilion. When I saw the pavilion I cried again because the arrangement was just like our first best friend date! Though it is not that elegant as before. He put me at the centre and he kneeled again in front of me and said “Serrah I am really really sorry for living you. But now I am here promising to you not to make you sad and suffer anymore. I will never leave your side until you get well. Now may I have your hand and be your husband?”
I didn’t answer anymore but I just cried and cried. After one year 1 year survived the trials and repent all my sins to God and we also got married and now we have our unica hija which we named “JANE”. Ü
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