TPS: Axel de Ayala [BXB]

Epilogue

Axel de Ayala's POV

Getting back to each other wasn't that easy. There are things that have changed and there's a lot of things that we both need to catch up. I told Kaenu everything about how the wedding went off, how I became Axelus' father, how I stepped down from my position and most of all I'm infertile. He was shocked but those are the important things that I did tell him.

Wala akong tinira na impormasyon tungkol sa akin for the past five years. Kaenu also did the same. He told me about his journey in New York for five years. All his struggles, his failures and his success that he did there. I was so happy to listen to him talk about his life that I wasn't able to witness.

Bumalik kami sa una. Muli naming kinilala ang isa't-isa bago kami muling sumubok and I know this time will the right time for us. I cannot say that five years of not being in each other's arms are just a waste. Sometimes it's a blessing in disguise, dahil ito ang dahilan kung nasaan kami ngayon.

Kung saan napatunay naming dalawa ang aming pagmamahalan. I know I don't believe in true love. I like playing with girls' feelings and in tears just to satisfy me, thinking that if I make a lot of girls cry for me my mother will regret everything for leaving me, us. Pero iba pala ang pakiramdam kapag nasa harapan muna ang para sayo.

It's like everything I worked hard for suddenly vanishes and all the hatred for my mother suddenly disappears. Iyon bang makita mo lang ang mukha niya buo na ang araw mo and it's a bonus if he smiles. Para akong lumulutang sa langit sa tuwing ngumingiti siya para sa akin at para namang pinipiga ang puso ko sa sakit whenever he cries.

Kaenu is my one and only cure in my lonely life. Binigyan niya ng saysay ang mundo ko, binuksan niya ang aking mga mata at binuhay niya ang puso ko. Well, he is my first love and will be the last too. Sa loob ng limang taon na wala siya sa tabi ko, I learned a lot. That we live in an unfair world and you can't have everything. You need to learn how to give up on things and you need to learn how to fight on something that will make you happy for the rest of your life.

Pero hindi ko pa rin mapigilan na itanong sa sarili if I really deserve someone like him after what I did to him. He's really pure at heart for forgiving and coming back to a jerk like me.

"I now pronounce you man and husband. You may kiss each other," ani ng pari na siyang nagbigay ng basbas para aming pagmamahalan.

Humarap ako kay Kaenu habang ako ay lumuluha. Kahit na anong pigil ko kasi ay ayaw pa rin tumigil ng mga luha sa pagpatak. I'm just really happy that finally akin na siya ng tuluyan.

No one's ever gonna set us apart.

I cupped his face na naiiyak na rin and kissed him passionately. I heard the witnessed people we invited for our simple wedding cheered for us.

"I love you, Mr. de Ayala," malumanay kong bulong kay Kaenu ng humiwalay ang labi namin sa isa't-isa. Finally he is now carrying my name.

"I love you too, my husband," he said.

We held our wedding here in New York. It took us eight months before we decided to finally get married. After we sealed the wedding with a kiss nakangiti kaming humarap sa mga taong sumusuporta sa amin.

I'm also grateful to have Kaenu's parents as my in-laws. Hindi nila kami pinabayaan when we announce that we would like to tie the knot. They supported us all the way. Sometimes nanliliit ako sa sarili ko because none of my relatives are here to witness me getting married to the man I love the most. Pero hindi nila pinaramdam sa akin 'yon, in fact si Katara mismo ang kasama kong maglakad patungo altar.