Unveiling Valor (PSS, #3) ✔️

Chapter 30: A Painful Battle

Chapter 30: A Painful Battle

WE DON'T know what holds tomorrow. Hindi natin alam kung ano ang mangyayari bukas, mamaya o sa susunod na araw. Pati nga plano mo'y hindi ka sigurado kung mangyayari, dahil pati ikaw hindi mo sigurado kung aabot pa ng bukas. Kaya naman kailangan na nating sulitin ang bawat sandali, ang lahat ng sa kasalukuyan para walang kang pagsisihan.

"Ay hindi ko 'to nagawa, sayang."

We should do things we want while we are still able, because we don't what holds tomorrow.

I was a kid when I met Isaiah, he was the only one who played with me in Mileage. Hindi ko pa noon naiintindihan kung bakit walang batang gustong makipagkaibigan sa akin sa Mileage, ngayon ko lang nalaman kung bakit. Nakalat na kasi ang gulo na nangyari sa palasyo, ang walang katotohanang akusasyon sa papa ko at dahil doon ay iniwasan kami ng lahat.

Ang pamilya lang ni Isaiah ang nag-iisang tumanggap sa amin. Marahil siguro'y naintindihan ng pamilya niya ang pamilya namin dahil parehas na nagtrabaho noon sa palasyo ang mga Papa namin. Isa na rin siguro ang dahilan kung bakit naging close kami ni Isaiah nang ganoon kabilis.

"We were born to be friends..." Iyon ang unang saad ni Isaiah sa akin, iyon ang simula ng una naming pag-uusap. Doon kami naging magkaibigan.

Hanggang sa tuluyan na kaming naging close, siya lang kasi ang nakakausap at nakakalaro ko sa Mileage.

"Kornalina, what do you want to be when you grow older?"

I smiled, "I want to join the kingdom force!"

He sarcastically laugh, the guts of this kid to laugh at me when it was him who asked what I wanted to be, "But that thing isn't for girls."

"Well at least to help the warriors by mending them." Nakanguso kong sagot.

"You won't ask me?"

I immediately looked at him in excitement, "What do you want, when you grow up?"

"I want to marry you, what do you think?"

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"Kornalina, you won't leave me, right?"

I frowned, "What do you mean? It does depend on a situation, Isaiah."

"Because I won't leave you. I just want to know if you won't leave me, because I'll never leave, Kornalina."

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"Very beautiful fingers, Kornalina. You are very feminine yet you still want to join the Armed force?"

I nodded, "Of course, these hands won't change my mind."

"What about I change your hands?"

I furrowed, "What do you mean? You can't change my hands!"

"No," He immediately opposed and captured my fingers, "Nothing. There's nothing in your fingers, right? One day, I'll put a ring on it. It'll change everything, Kornalina."

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"I've heard you'll leave Mileage, is it true? Kornalina?"

I became sad all of a sudden, "It's not my decision tho."

"You said you won't leave me."

"Isaiah, I can't still decide--"

He cut me off, "I'll follow you. I'll always follow you, even to death."

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"Isaiah..."