Ikaw at Ako

He's still the one

Her POV

"Tiff, can court you?" Jon said as I make my way to my chair.

"What are you talking about, Jon?" I said to him as I sat down.

"I love you, Tiff," he confessed as he sat down beside me.

"I'm sorry. I can't love you back, Jon," I rejected him.

"But you told me, right? That love can be learn, right?" he asked me as I remember the time I told him that.

"Yes, but-" I answered as I remembered the time but was cutted of.

"See? So, please. Just let me. Let me court you and love you," he pleaded me.

" Jon, you see this? This is my heart," I said as I handed out my hand holding my 'heart'.

"But I'm sorry. It doesn't beat for you," I continued looking at him eye to eye.

"Please learn to love me. Please," he again pleaded to me but my mind was playing a flashback.

The time when there's me and him.

"Yes. Love can be learn. I learn to love him. But that was the biggest mistake that I did, to let myself fall by learning it," I started as I tell the story of us.

"He courted me, I said yes as I told myself to just learn how to love him.

I accepted him as my boy when summer starts but still I didn't love him.

Still in the progress on how to.

I fall for him after 5 months of being his girl.

He's nice, loving, caring and smart.

He endured all my small punches, pinches, pokes and teases.

I asked him why he injured it all and he told me that they are all worth the hugs, smiles and holding hands that I gave.

After 5 months, we did celebrate our anniversary.

Me by giving him presents and him by treating me out.

Again, summer starts, I went outside of the town to attend a college graduation.

I told myself, 'wow, you lasted for a year'

Then suddenly, a question popped out of my head.

So, I got my phone as texted him the question I wanted to ask.

I asked him a simple yet wise question that I ever asked.

'If I ask you to let me go, would you?'

Then, I told myself if he said no, we'll go on.
If yes, then we'll not.

I blinked a few times as I read his reply.

A simple and plain, 'yes'.

So I told him to let me go.

And he did. Not because he don't love me, but because I asked him to.

Because he loved me better than I love him.

Now, he's gone.

He now has an infatuation to a close friend of mine.

He moved on.

And now, I'm also trying to," I told him as I remember all the memories we had.

"As I look at you right now, don't you know that I saw him in you?

You guys are so alike.

The way he smiles and you smile.

Both of you have dimples.

Both of you have great brains.

But he's still the one that I love.

I'm sorry," I confessed as I started to look at the sky.

You're still the one