Ideal Love

Chapter XXXI

Arhel Kristoff's

How could I be so lucky?

Parang hinahaplos ang puso ko habang nakatitig sa inosentang mukha ni Aiah. This sounds corny but that's what I really feel right now.

I would do everything just to be with her in all of the days that start with morning.

I want to be that person she'll first see in her waking hours and the last person she'll be with in her sleeping times.

I don't know how this love I have for her grow and nurture itself while I was away from her.

Basta ang alam ko, I already have reserved myself, my heart and my all to this woman the first time I saw her as a baby and I was just then a little child. 

And all of my sacrifices, definitely paid off.

I cannot imagine myself to be with someone who is not Aiah.

My Aiah.

Natakot ako sa magiging reaction nya if I would just introduce myself as the hero she thought I was. She fell inlove with my heroic act, which I did not do and which I was not. Hindi naman ako ang hero nya. Pero itinanim nya sa puso nyang ako ang kanyang tagapagligtas, at ako ang ideal man nya. Pero that was not me. Kaya natakot ako.

I want her to love me for who I am right now--a man who would be willing to give his all for her. And not for someone she thought I was.

Hindi ako hero.

Dadating ang panahon na masasaktan ko siya.

Katulad na lang ng nangyari.

Pero the pain would always be worth it as it would always end like this-she and I in this warm and tight embrace.

I love you princess...

She suddenly opened her eyes and instantly saw me intently looking at my angel.

''Good morning baby,'' I kissed her cheek and she blushed. Sumiksik pa siya lalo sa akin.

'Bakit gising ka na?' 

I held her chin and made me look at me.

'Iuuwi na kasi kita.' I said half-smiling. I hope my eyes would tell her things I could not say just yet.

'You don't want me here?' I could see pain in her eyes.

'No. I don't want you here anymore.'' She immediately leave my side and turned to go but I held her close. Nakatayo na siya at nakaupo naman ako habang yakap yakap ko siya.

'I don't want you here with me. Not when you're still an Imperial.' Tiningala ko siya and I saw how confused she is right now.

'Marry baby please?'

'You-you're p-proposing?' she's already in the verge of tears. My cry baby.

'No baby, I am begging you. Please marry me. I know we started at the wrong foot. But I am so sure you're the one I want to be with. I waited enough. Please? Would you take away my sorrow by saying yes please?' I pleaded more. 

'Where's your ring then?' She smiled and was again lost as I excitedly and lovingly put my lips on hers.

Indeed, my sweetest thing on earth.