Everybody left after the interment except for Belle and Ross.
“Belle, let’s go? Tita won’t be happy to see you that way and you need to rest of course; you haven’t eaten right and you lack sleep hours since the first day of her wake.”
“Just few more minutes, please? I need this… please, Louise?”
“Sure, Honey-belle. Do you need to be alone? I’ll wait for you in the car, ok?”
“Thanks a lot.” “I love you, Louise”*She whispered*
“Ahhmm, Louise?”
“Yes?”
“Will you be there for me??”
“Of course, I promised that to her.”
“I owe a lot to you, Louise.”
Only Belle calls him by his second name; the rest call him Ross who makes him feel so special when he is being called by Belle but, he knows it when she’s mad at him, she calls him Ross.
“No, it’s my duty as your best friend to help you go through this life… remember our promise? We’ll be here for each other no matter what.”
“Yeah.”
*The Promise (FLASHBACK-5 Years ago)
“Yatz, will you say for me? Will you not be like Dad?”
*Belle called Ross “Yatz” when they were younger because he’s really thin and sickly those years that’s why he tried his best be as fit as he can be when they grew older- high school years; Ross is 2 years older than Belle.
“Of course, I will be there for you ‘til my last breath.”
“How about you? Will you be there too?”
Ross got a needle and punctured their pinky finger as a sign of their promise and bit each other’s finger. They both made it and had the needle punctured on the trunk of a mango tree near Belle’s garden.
