One Road, Six Ways

ONE ROAD, SIX WAYS - Part 21

Yes, the girls were happy for Lorna, but they were so disappointed because that night they will be away, and the next morning will be the marriage of Lorna and Gunther.

"Sorry, I like it very much that you are all here on my wedding day as friends and as family. I am alone, no one at my wedding." Lorna said.

"Lorna, I feel what you felt. Yes, you will marry a man that your parents never knew and seen, you will be married in a strange land, you will be married with no friends or family, you can say, its all not normal, but look at the bright side of it all. Sooner or later, your family will know Gunther, this strange land will be your home and later being alone will not stay forever. Maybe you can let your parents .." Carla stopped talking to Lorna when they heard a doorbell. 

"I will look, maybe that's the person that will pick you up!" and Lorna came out the room to alarmed Gunther who was still in the basement but Lorna saw him already walking toward the main door to open. 

"Tell the girls, the man is here!" Gunther told Lorna. Lorna then entered again the room where the three girls were and told the three that it's time to go. "Remember, I really like it that even once for a while you call me. You have the telephone number of Gunther!"

The three girls, one by one hugged Lorna. They were all sad. 

"Lorna, be a good girl. You find already a man that will give you and maybe your family a good life." Carla said.

"Good luck and God bless you Lorna!" Thelma said.

"Lorna be happy! And please make many children with blue eyes and blond hair! I hope I will be a Godmother to one of your children to be!" despite her grieves and sorrows, Luisa words have still the shade of joke or if not, it really showed who she was or what character she had, voicing out her thoughts on an special way that people who did not knew who really she was, will take it as a joke.

Gunther and the man were down in the basement. They talked their for almost about half hour and when they came up toward the girls that were waiting in the living room, Gunther introduced the man. The man early in his thirties, looked nonchalant someone.

"This is Herman, he's the one who will drive you to Belgium!" 

Herman shook hands with the girls and when he shook hands with Lorna he congratulated her for the wedding that will be tomorrow. "Congratulation, and have a happy wedding tomorrow!"

"Thank you! I wished that my friends will be here tomorrow." Lorna answered him. 

"That would be nice, but it had something to do with visas. Their visas must be arranged tomorrow as soon as we arrived in Belgium!" Herman understood what Lorna meant.

When the girls were all inside the car, Gunther handed them a big envelop, one envelop to each. "My gift to you. Photo inside for your eyes only unless you show it to someone!"

The three Filipinas understood what Gunther meant. Inside the envelope with an A-4 size was the private photo of them taken by Gunther and he's giving them a copy.

When the car of Herman with the three Filipinas started to ran, Lorna stayed standing waving to her friends until the car totally faded out her sight. Gunther put his arms around Lorna's shoulder and said. "Don't be sad, Lorna. I promise I will take good care of you and maybe one time we could visit your friends in Belgium, who knew!"

"It would be very nice, Gunther. I will be very glad to see again my friends before the one year is over, their contract will be finished after one year." Lorna said.

"I promised you. Now, about us, tomorrow you will be my wife. What I wish from you is that please just love me. Just love me and everything will be alright!"