Chapter 10: Chapter 10
I go back to my work and continue my life. I attend the wedding of Martin and Lucy and wish them happiness. And I decided to tell to Melissa about Andrew and she was happy and excited to hear all the things that happen between Andrew and me.
“ so, do you like him”? Melissa ask me
“ I don’t know”. I said with a smile.
“ I’m so happy for you, you deserve to be happy”. She said. “ so, what he look like”? She ask again in a loud voice.
“ he look nice, I guess. Melissa looks at me in disbelief. “ okay, he look handsome”. I said and she smile at me.
“ That’s what I want to hear. So, what do you guys do together”? She ask but I didn’t answer so she gets mad at me. She look at me wide open and waiting for my answer.
“ We didn’t do anything, I said innocently but she didn’t believe.
“ okay, we danced when our favorite song played in the radio”, I said with a smile in my eyes
“ Just danced? She ask again. And I nodded to her to agree.
“ So, do you love…… she pause and look in my eyes while walking near me
“ do you love the danced? She ask while staring at me and I couldn’t say anything so I just said.
“ I liked it,” I said and I stand up on my chair and ignoring her look. I thought it’s the end of her interrogation but I was wrong. She look straight to my eyes but I turn my eyes to something but she hold my face back to her. This I knew she was serious about it.
“ So, do you love him”? She ask me directly. And I have nothing to do but to admit it to her.
“ I was”. I said secretly and she hug me while congratulating me for what I said.
“ Justine, were best friend and all I want for you is your happiness. If you love him, I am so happy for you”. We both cry that day and everyone in the wedding see both of us crying including Martin but we never said anything to them, I am so happy that day.
I am so excited for the seventeen of September. I set my reminders from my phone, in my notebook, in my calendar beside my bed, I highlights the date and I couldn’t sleep well. I keep on thinking about the moment when I was with him. Back in Cebu I remember Andrew told me that he had a girlfriend before but she left him because she went to England to work but after a year he heard from their friends that she was married to someone. I still remember how sad his eyes when he telling me that, I just let him talk and I never asked him about anything, I just let the time goes by and let him feel better again.
I was wondering why we need to met someone but never stayed until the end of time. Why we have to deal with some things that never really matter. Why we have to choose between right or wrong if both of it will make you cry in the end. If we live by destiny why we have to follow our hearts? If we follow the directions why we still make a mistakes? This journey of life is unpredictable. You will never know what tomorrow brings and what people can bring to your life.
Back to Andrew, he continue his fashion in photography despite of longing to her he manage his loneliness. He go home that day and give his mom and his sister Kate a hugs and kisses, they had a great dinner and he hand over the things he buy for the both of them. Andrew narrates his journey in Cebu but he never mentioned Justine. He didn’t know how to tell to them about Justine that night but he is planning to do it before they finally meet again in September. Before he sleep he go to his mom’s room and ask her about his dad. His mom in a white dress getting ready to sleep is in shock when he ask her.
“ your dad was my best friend back then and he always with me keeping me safe everyday. When I went in college and your father left in the province he wrote me a letter and said that he wants to go to me and see me but I didn’t believed because he was nothing but after two days he knocked on the door and I saw him standing without anything to brings. And he kneel down on my parents and asking them if he can marry me and my parents had nothing to do but to accept and I married him right away” she said while holding on the picture of her late husband. “ when he died I lost my best friend and the half of my heart but I can still feel him in my arms. He’s still with me even if he goes away”. She added.
Andrew go back to his room feeling happy for his parents. And he feel the same with Justine, when she left he felt incomplete but like his mom says, he can still feel her in his arms. He can’t sleep that night so he decided to write something.
“ What do I like about Justine”? He wrote and he answer it.
What do I like about Justine?
She is amazing woman. She is fun to talk to. When I am with her I don’t care about the time, I care about the moment that we had together. When we were at the church, when I lit the candle and pray. I pray that I will be in her side wherever she goes. I want to be the man that she wants to spend her days, the man that will make her feel better. I will do everything just to make her happy, her happiness is my world and my life.
Do you love Justine?
I did. I love her and I will always love her until we get old. I love her every time she look in my eyes and smile.
When do you start loving her?
When she danced with me that night at the small island. I was so happy and in love to her that night. We danced that night, we danced like it was our first time to dance. We danced even until the song was ended.
Imagine yourself walking in the aisle with the woman you really loved. Holding her hands and never let it go and she smile at you. You look in her eyes while saying the words that she’s been waiting for a long time but you lost your word because of her stunning eyes. Imagine you wake up every morning with the woman you’ve been dreaming of for a long time. Imagine your in love with her and she was in love with you too.