♡ Awaiting Love ♡

Chapter 17

Patrick: "I will.. But I want a promise, no tears. I don't like when you cry"

Y/n: "Is it too sad?"
*Y/n eyes got wide in shock as she questioned him innocently. He chuckled patting her head with so much affection in his heart for the woman who nodded at
him in affirmation*

Patrick: "You will tell me but don't cry, ok? Pinkie promise?"

Y/n: "Pinkie promise"

Patrick: "Ok...."

Y/n: "Pops Smith-"
*Y/n looked at him who took a deep breath as if to collect himself before sharing the deepest corner of his heart and the darkest part of his past. But he just shushed her and took another deep breath before he started a chapter of his book that he never read out loud*

Patrick: "Shhh... Let me concentrate. So it started 40 years ago. I was 18 years old who just completed my higher education and want to become a barrister like any boy who wants to have a better future and do good for his family and society. The boy fell in love with a girl who was his class fellow. She was also our family friend's daughter. And she also loved me.
At 18, that age felt so young, yet it was pure... when people fell in love at that time, the world remembered it. Not like these days when you claim to love one and move on within a few hours to the next one available"

Y/n: "Who was she?"

Patrick: "She...She was like the morning sunlight, cool yet soothing, like the rain everyone longs for, like the moon and stars… radiant and always present, like the wind that never leaves. She was the limit of my first love, the height of my intensity"

*The question about the mysterious woman's identity was dodged beautifuly and smartly. But the description of her character and his love was so enchanting that Y/n smiled peacefully leaning back to finally drink the coffee as she listen
intently*

Patrick: "But her family didn't agree to our union when my father went with my proposal because they have already fixed her marriage with one of their distant relatives. We were heartbroken, I fought with everyone, I went to her family and try to reason that they are ruining her life. But they didn’t listen to a single word of mine. Idiotic rascals, I tell you"

Y/n: "Then what happened?"
*Pops smiled sadly at her because she looked invested in the story like she was witnessing it with her eyes*

Patrick: "Then? Then they told my family if they don't handle me, then they will involve the police. And my family helped them think that their son is ruining someone's daughter life with his playboy behavior. And her family then got her married to that man forcefully and send her off. I didn't even have any means to contact her, or find her"
*Her gasp of disbelief was so loud, her eyes were already misty but she shook her head at the in justice, but Pops just continue with a smile because he knew this was not the hardest part*

Y/n: "What? I- how can they?"

Patrick: "That's what I thought. But some people consider themselves gods on earth. They will tell you that what they did was for your best future and life but it only ruins things. The same happened to me "
*Y/n gulped because her own pain knocked her breath away. Isn't the same happened to them, the blind love and impulsive decisions ruined them. Unaware of Y/n's inner battle, Pops keeps looking ahead as the past flashes in front of his eyes like a film, that he has to relive all his life*

Patrick: "I was angry with myself. Her crying face and tears used to haunt me whenever I remembered that she must be living somewhere as someone else wife. I left my home to go abroad and study to be a lawyer. But that didn't stop the people with a God complex to ruin humans like us. My family tricked me to come back"