The Dream

Chapter 5

Liam's Point of View.

After our classes, I checked my phone and then there, I saw Luke's text. It's so long, feels like a confession.

I opened the messages and then I read it in my mind and which makes me shocked.

"Hi Liam, I know you know how I said it was my first confession earlier right? I did not lie about that, but behind the sadness, pain and loneliness you see in me earlier too is the reason of my first love and my first relationship, I never confessed to her nor courted her, my family arranged me to be with her and I want my family to be happy so I listened and obey them. We become in a relationship when we are at grade 7, we are 6 years in a relationship before we broke up 2 years ago. Within the 6 years even if we got arranged I learn how to love her, I love her with all my life, I saw how she was treated by her father and I saw how painful she look at her half siblings on her motherside, I made a promise to her that when we finished school we will make a family and we will not make them feel what she feel and I will make her happy with a new family she have with me. But that doesn't happen, when we are first year college, she had changed. She become cold to me and every move she does knows by my best friend, anyway they both taking Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, so they're classmates, 3 months after the classes started she became so cold that I can't even talk to her in chat and phone, so I did everything to fetch her, always be with her, wait her and anything, but something happened, I discovered that she hasn't have a period for 2 months already, so I asked her to take a pregnancy test and the result? She was pregnant, 7 months passed I accepted the child in her belly, but I don't know what comes to my mind but I took her to the doctor and asked them to make a DNA test on me and the baby before she goes on labor, we got into great fight until she finally deliver the child. After that I accepted the baby although I saw that the baby resembles more to my bestfriend than me luckily the DNA test came and turns out I wasn't the father. My whole world crumbled, but I didn't gave up, I let her go and asked her to tell me who the father is. She confessed on me that she and my bestfriend cheated on me and had a thing eversince we are in grade 12. So I let her go. It pains me to leave her but I wanna make her to feel the promise I will never be able to give because I know that my bestfriend will take care on her and will make her happy, even if it is killing me to leave her, I have to. After my decision my family hates me, so now I'm working for myself and started to be independent. I am starting to move on until now and what I'm feeling towards you help me move on any faster. I don't know what to do, all I want is to be accepted by my family but I couldn't because the person they want me to marry is taken already. What should I do?"

-Luke

I'm glad that he confess this to me, I can feel his pain, and because of this I realized something, that relationship that last longer depends if they want to make it work or not.

No one could say that it isn't love because It did not work, it is love but it didn't work because they didn't do something to make it work.

No one is able to judge someone's feelings just to say that they're right and someone is wrong, just to say that their past relationship is not love just because it did not work.

Everywhere there is love, there is pain, there is struggle but there is also a unity, communication and cooperation to help it.

I breath in and out and then typed my reply to him.

"I am glad you didn't force yourself to her, I'm glad you didn't say sarcastic words to her, I'm glad that you didn't hold a grudge to her but instead you choose to move forward, what you did is a form of strength you have and you did not notice because you are focus on the flaws you have, on the flaws that your family always sees in you, there is always pain in everything you try to do, no one could escape it but remember that there is also a happiness, love and hope in every pain you felt, every problem and breakdown you had. About your family, you don't need to do anything, just be yourself, do what is right, do not do what they want you to do because you are making you you to became the you that you are not meant to be, you are you and no one could tell what you need to do to please them, do what makes you happy but also in good. Don't mind your family, you are strong and independent, just continue doing it and persue your dreams."