My Childhood Friend

Chapter Twenty Two

© Yv Obregon, 2013

Cady

The beach was empty, no kids running around, or laughing with their family and friends, it was just me standing. Watching the sun with my toes in the sand while my white summer dress flows through the cold breeze of the wind passing at me, leaving me with goose bumps. I hugged myself as the warm water reaches my feet, looking down, just staring at the sand with enough water to see my sad confused reflection that twinkles because of the sun making the water even more fascinating.

Knitting my eyebrows and biting my lip are my new mannerism just to stop the tear wanting to drop. This is not the time to cry. I'm not saying that crying is pathetic, it's just not worth it for my situation.

But it is...

Feeling different emotions simultaneously making my head swirl and more confused than before, questions that wanted to be answered immediately started running on my mind like; Is Conner trying to find me?, will he ever find me?, is he still in love with me?, will Conner still love me if he finds out that I'm carrying his child?, if this commotion would end, do we get that happy ending? All of these questions are repeatedly running on my mind making me have a second thought. Second thought whether I leave this city and all of these errands behind, or face it because I wanted it to end, I wanted to talk about this with Conner, with my first love, stupid, funny, attractive, jerk of a boyfriend I fell in love with.

I'm still in love with Conner and that will never change, no one and nothing can change how I feel about him even though it's complicated.

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. The sun is almost setting, hiding, so we wont see it. Then our surroundings will dark out that we wont be able to see a thing, that it will makes us wish to have that beaming sun back, to put a light on our surroundings, to see what you wanted to see and to have that sweet morning smile back. This made me wonder. For the past months, I was the one wishing to have that beaming sun back. Conner was the sun, my sun I was wishing for. What if Conner is not cheating? What if I'm just overreacting? What if Conner is just really having a hard time to form the words he wanted to say? What if Conner is the one who is wishing right now? To have that beaming sun back. Then I am the sun who is hiding, making his surroundings blackout.

I sigh and shake my head, not even noticing the R8 parked meters away from me beside a man on his Armani suit, watching me with his hands on his pocket.

Am I dead? Because he looks like a God on his suit.

I looked at him with my sad eyes, blinking as many as I could master so the tears wont have any resumptions. He approached me slowly with his blank expression, my heart beat's turned from normal to willd. He was almost right there, making me nervous and panicked I've never felt before. By the time he was in front of me, time stopped. I held onto my breath and looked at his dark blue eyes, I bit my lip.

"Cady," he whispered, I sobbed. He hugged me, soothing my back to calm me down, "shh baby, I'm here now, I'm not going to leave you." This time, I hugged him back, pulling him closer to me.

I'm ruining his suit.

"Baby, hear me out." He said, his voice showed vulnerability. He pulled away slightly and looked at me in the eye. "I am sorry, Cady. I know this is not what you wanted and this is not what I wanted either. I'm sorry that I'm such a jerk to you for the past months and made you feel this way. You know I wouldn't hurt you like that, right?" I looked away, because I really dont know what to answer. I mean yes, I know that but, I'm hurt. The stab on my chest, the wound in my heart are not yet healed. "Look at me, darling." He used his index finger and moved my chin to look at him. "I made a promise to your parents, sister and to our friends that I will man the hell up and tell you now, because I'm a fool for thinking you, will reject my love for you," he took a deep breath, took both of my hands and held it tight. "Let me do this," even though I dont know what he was talking about, I nodded.

He made a genuflect in front of me and I couldn't help but gasp, putting my hands over my mouth. He blew a deep shakey breath, looked at me in the eyes, then smiled nervously. "Cady baby, we've been together for 6 years now and I know I am such an idiot for thinking that you will reject me for wishing to be yours forever."

I smiled and scrunched up my nose, "pretty much."

He chuckled, "I just don't want to assume," I rolled my eyes, "but thanks to your sister for calling me a faggot because of that, I gained the courage I've wanted to have a long time ago," what he said made my eyes wide.

He wanted to do this a long time ago but he chickened out? Idiot!

"I know what you're thinking and I said I was sorry," I smiled and shrugged. "I've loved you Cady and I will love you more, till eternity. So now, that you know the reason why I'm acting weird lately."

"More like stupid," he rolled his eyes and smiled, I smiled back and looked at him, adoring the sight in front of me and falling in love with him once again.

"Will you make me the happiest man in the universe by simply saying 'I do' at the altar, and saying 'yes' right now because Cady Anne Woods, will you marry me?" He smiled, but the nervousness was still vivid in his eyes.

Missing my sun for the past months and now he's here, I'm not letting him go.

"Start putting light to my surroundings that's been dark while you're away, and make me smile every morning because I'm saying 'yes' " I grinned. He pulled the blue velvet box in his suit pocket and never missed the Tiffany & Co written on the box, then turned to me again with a huge grin that matches mine. He opened the box and my heart sunk.

He slipped the simple but fascinating diamond ring on my left wedding finger. Just like the sun when the light cascading the water, it twinkles.

Conner stood up smiling, "actually, you have already made me the happiest man in the universe when you allowed me to be part of your life, back where I met you. I love you," A grin suddenly plastered on my face, blushing, he kissed me.

My beautiful sunrise just began.

--Sunset--

Qoute for this chapter: "Someday, you will find the one who will watch every sunrise with you until the sunset of your life."