Love Marathon [Completed]

Can I Be Your Bride?

On a calm Saturday evening, a skinny, good-looking thirteen-year-old boy is sitting on a bench in the park reading a book.

He is so engrossed in his book that he fails to notice a chubby little boy is running towards him, not even when that boy is standing right in front of him.

"P'Ming~"

Hearing his name been called, the boy looks up. The first thing that comes into his sight is the smiling face of the little boy.

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Yo' POV

"P'Ming, I like you. Can I be your bride when I grow up so that we can be together forever?" I say cheerfully.

I'm ten years old this year. And now I'm confessing to someone who is as important to me as my mother.

I like him. He is my best friend. He is three years older than me. He always plays with me, take care of me and protect me.

My cousin, P'Beam said that if I don't want him to go away, I must confess to him and tell him that I like him, that I want to be his bride.

P'Beam also said that it's the only way I can be with him and play with him forever if I'm his bride. I really, really, really want to be together with him forever.

P'Ming frowns, "How can you be my bride? You are a boy. Boy can only be bridegroom and only girls can be bride."

Huh!! Really?? But why P'Beam told me that I can be P'Ming's bride??

I'm confused now.

Only girls can be bride?! I'm a boy. It means I can't be P'Ming's bride. Does that mean I can't be with him forever?! Does that mean he is going to leave me?

I don't want! I want to be with him forever, but he said, I can't be his bride. He said, boys can only be bridegroom...

Ah...

"I can't be your bride... then... I will be your bridegroom." I give him my sweetest smile, hoping that he will agree.

"Ugh... Beam must be the one who taught you all these nonsenses. Yo, you need to stop listening to him."

"P'Ming, why? P'Beam is just trying to help me, and you haven't answer me. Does that mean you don't want me to be your bridegroom? Does that mean you don't want to be with me forever? Does that mean you are going to leave me?" I pout sadly.

Did I done something wrong, something that makes him doesn't want to be with me forever? Is he angry with me? Is he going to leave me?

I don't want! I don't want! I don't want P'Ming to leave me! I want to be with him forever!

I bite my bottom lip and start sobbing.

"Shush... Yo... Please don't cry. Come here and sit down with me. I will explain to you, ok?"

He pulls out a handkerchief with from his pocket and starts wiping the tears on my face. I nod my head and do what I was told to do.

He strokes my hair and says gently, "Yo, you can't be my bride or bridegroom. That doesn't mean I will leave you. I won't leave you and we will be together forever."

"Really?! We can be together forever?!"

"Yes. You are too cute for me to leave you. I will always be where you can see me."

Yay!! P'Ming said we can be together forever! He said he won't leave me!

I suggest excitedly, "Let's do a pinky promise. The one who breaks the promise will be a dog."

He says, "Ok, but you also have to promise that you won't leave me, and you will stay with me forever."

"Ok." I agree.

We hook our pinkies together and say in unison, "We promise we will be together forever. We promise that we won't leave each other forever."

After our pinky promise, I hug him and kiss him on his lips.

*Muack*

"Yo!! Why are you kissing me?!" He looks shocked.

"P'Beam said it's a sign of love." I make a heart shape with my fingers.

"Beam!!!" He growls.

"P'Ming..." I pout with teary eyes.

"Ok, ok, I won't scold Beam."

"P'Ming is the best person in the world." I announce with a wide smile showing my teeth.

He pinches my cheek and says with a gentle smile, "Silly boy."

P'Ming promised me that he won't leave me, and we will be together forever.

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Ming's POV

*Sigh*

I need to find a way to stop Beam, who is same age as me, from contaminating Yo's innocent mind. I need to have a good talk with him without Yo knowing.

Yo is very fond of his cousin, and he believes every word his cousin says. If Beam tells him that the cows can sing, he has no trouble in believing him.

I can't talk bad about his cousin, he will show me his sad face and sometimes he will cry.

And I really hate to see Yo cries. Whenever he cries, I will feel pain inside my heart, like I'm going to get some heart problems.

I like to see him smile. I want to be the one to make him smile. Whenever I see his smiling face, my chest will feel warm and I will feel happy. My body will become lighten and I will feel as if I'm floating.

Yo and I have known each other since very young. We are neighbours. Yo and his mother had been living with his cousin, Beam, and his parents since Yo's father passed away before Yo was born.

From what I heard from Beam, Yo's father had died from sickness, some kind of brain tumour, I think.

We don't see each other often, but I always try to squeeze in some free time a week to play with him.

Even though we live in the same neighbourhood, but we study in different school.

My parents have high expectations for me. They enrol me into those kinds of elite school which I don't like while Yo is studying in the neighbouring school.

No matter how busy I am, I will make time for him. People will think that I'm taking care of him, like what an older kid will do plus we have known each other for a very long time, even his mother thinks in that way too.

But little did they know, the time with him is the happiest time I ever had and the only happiness I ever have...