Space Between Us

Chapter 67 (Memory Lane)

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I hated everyone when I first arrived here in Sacania. I hated Asher with all my heart when he kidnaped me. Halos 3 araw din akong hindi kumain dahil sa sobrang galit ko.

Pero hindi ako nakatiis sa gutom at sa pamimilit ng tatlo kong kaibigan. Krea, Phelis at Egilior. Ang mga taong pinagkakatiwalaan ko sa mundo na ito.

I made some friends but I definitely made more enemies. But it didn't matter. I was never afraid of them in the first place.

Hanggang sa malaman ko ang lahat. I was part of once an influencial and powerful family in this world. So powerful that they're the one who shaped the Sacania today.

And powerful in a way that you don't even understand where, who and how all this power came from. Kahit ako na pamilya ay hindi ko rin alam.

When I was chosen as the bride for the Emperor, I don't know what to feel. Ilang araw pa lang ako sa mundo na ito tapos malalaman mo na ikakasal ka sa isang pinaka-malakas na impluwensiya na tao.

Never in that course I felt excited. All I felt is fear, and more fear was added when I got face to face with him.

He's much taller than me, and his body frame can easily crush me. Add to that is how his body is structured, and by whom? By my clan!

I thought that maybe, I'll be one of those woman who will have a messy marriage life. I'm not saying that we like each other though.

But it changed. It change how I see him. With our little moments, I saw something in him and thought to myself, that maybe things between us could work.

He thought me some things while I quietly let him, eager to learn and to help the Empire he built with his own blood and sweat.

Pero sa pagsasama namin, hindi ko pa rin siyang nakitang ngumiti. Parang default na ata ng mukha niya ang resting face. But I didn't mind that, because that's who he is. And I would be lying to myself If I denied that I didn't felt something for him.

I like him. Maybe not to point of liking him romantically, but I like him.

I remembered the moment we have when we are riding a boat while his 12 Knights are guarding us from the sky. It was funny since I convinced him to let off steam from his work. And I'm happy that he allowed himself to spend a few minutes with me in the river.

"How's your work?" I frown when he asked me that. Nandito nga kami para mag chill tapos tungkol pa rin sa trabaho ang pagu-usapan namin.

I pouted. "Niyaya nga kita para mag pahinga saglit sa trabaho, hmp!" Sabay agaw ko sa tablet niya at tinabi ko sa upuan.

Wala siyang nagawa kundi ang tignan lang ako kaya napangiti ako. We have a wide age gap and I can feel that sometimes he gets annoyed by my actions but he would still let me do things.

"Let's have a picture, this is a celebration of maybe... your first rest for how many years! The whole world is already in your hands so don't worry" I said to him while I'm getting my phone.

I stood up and sat beside him. "More reason to keep it since this world is under me" He tried to reason more but I didn't let him.

"Sshh!" I shush him, even putting my index finger on my lips. Ayaw talaga niya mag patalo.

And as usual, he didn't smiled in the picture but he let me took one. Kahit alam ko na ayaw niya na kinukuhaan siya ng litrato.

Those little moments. It somehow make me think that we are at least friends. We are married but only in papers, and this feels like I have one more friend here in Sacania.