Heart

Chapter 1 We Met for the First Time

London, UK, September 10, 2008, 7:40 pm

I was on the beach that night, sitting on the bench facing the beach, the night of September 10. I was wearing my long red dress and high heels while gazing into the stars.

I was still broken hearted. It's been a month now and I still couldn't get over it. However, I was relieved now for I have finally decided it is time to move on without having to feel bad about myself. Still, something disturbed me. It was the simple fact that my trauma made me give up on love. I was never to fall in love again. Yes, I am still young and yes, life has many wonders but I was never to fall in love again. I knew it. I was never to be happy anymore.

On to my left, was a stranger standing just few steps away and staring at the same view. As I looked at him, he looked back at me at the same moment. I rapidly turned my face. Few seconds later, I see him sit next to me on the bench and ask, "Do you believe in love from first sight?"

I looked at him with surprise. I was shocked and confused. Who is that person? Why is he talking to me? Should I answer? Should I not? I wanted to say No, but why should he ask me that? How could he get me that fast?

I had no idea who he is or why he was talking to me. I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone. I just looked back into the sky hoping that he would just leave. He didn't. He was still there. Few minutes later, he was still there. While I was trying so hard not to talk to him, I took my time staring at his details, turning to him every occasionally we sat and stared at the sky. He was very handsome with beautiful black her and dazzling dark brown eyes. He wore a black and white tuxedo and black shiny shoes. I think he was at Celina's wedding too. His dark skin and feature attracted me the most. It was about 8:00 pm when I left the party to sit outside and meet this stranger.

Weddings made me sad. They made me feel bad. Though I loved watching people get married, I always felt that I wouldn't be able to find my own moment. I believed I will never find my soul mate; not that soul mates last forever, but this one person who will love me so much that he would never let me go no matter where life takes us.

He wasn't wearing a ring. He wasn't engaged or married. At least this is what I could see from his hands when he took off his jacket to put it on my shoulders. I was speechless, for so many reasons. I felt I was being rude. I still didn't answer his question. I was confused and now I was nervous.

"It's getting late", he said.

"Yes," I replied.

"Do you live far from here?"

"Yes, well... kind of"

"Need a ride?"

"No thanks"

"I know what you're thinking"

"What... Oh sorry, I didn't mean to be rude... I just..."

"Never mind... By the way, can you believe how far these stars are?"

I smiled. I tried not to show it but I did. He was so kind and I couldn't resist looking at him. He was trying to open a conversation with me and I seemed rude. It was as if I didn't want to talk to him. He interrupted the silence again and said:

"You know what!" he said as I looked at him with questioning eyes, "I wish I could be a star so you look at me the way you're looking at them right now. Do you love them that much?"

I smiled again. "I think they're in love with you too", he added.

Now it was time for me to speak. Any more silence will ruin this beautiful moment. Am never ruining anything beautiful for myself anymore.

"I wish I could be a star too. These stars are so far from here but they're so close to me. I wish I could be a star but not for a person to fall in love with me. I would love that if I could watch true love and real happiness right in front of me ...".Turning my face towards him I continued, "Excuse me but I guess am a bit emotional tonight."

"Was it that bad?"

"What! ..." I surprisingly asked.

As I turn to look at him, I witness the most beautiful scene I could ever see. There he was sitting starring directly into my eyes smiling at me with sparkling eyes. He didn't add any other word. He just sat there and looked me in the eyes. I guess he understood I didn't want to talk about it.

Time passed as we chatted and laughed. We lost track of time that we didn't even realize a whole hour has passed. It turned out he was invited to the same wedding I was attending. The groom is his relative and I told him the bride was mine. He laughed at that fact. I could never know why. In a while, the wedding was over and the guests were leaving. I heard the chatters and when I saw people leaving, I thought that maybe he's going to leave too and this beautiful moment is ending faster than I imagined. As if God has just sent him for a while to teach me, why I shouldn't give up and then leave. Before I could ask him if he's leaving or not, he held my hand, looked directly into my eyes, and asked me again:

"Do you believe in love from first sight?"

Of course, I was even more embarrassed to answer that now that he's holding my hand but he continued.

"I mean do you believe that if two people met each other one day, they could fall in love from the first time?"

At that moment, I didn't have the "No" feeling anymore. I still don't know what happened back then but I felt my heartbeats go so crazy that I couldn't breather anymore. I wanted to answer him; I wanted to tell him how I really felt but I couldn't speak. My tongue just froze. I looked into his eyes and saw my whole life inside them. I saw my past, my present, and future. Suddenly, as I was trying to grasp the whole thing, rain started falling heavily and the whole street was filled with water in seconds, and cars started slipping on the roads.

It all happened in a blink of an eye, and now we were standing next to the fence on the sidewalk having this once-in-a-lifetime romance.

He quickly took the jacket off my shoulders and put it over my head. He hugged me and we ran as fast as we could to his car. And how nice it was to see a red Ferrari parked on the side of the street, my favorite. As soon as we sat in his little beauty, we both started laughing.

We were very wet that night but I was very warm on the inside. He turned on the music, and the shocker was that the song being played was my favorite too. He told me that it's the best song ever and that he loves it too as he began to sing along. Actually when I saw the lyrics of "Hero" come out from between his lips, I said to myself, "Oh My God. This is my savior. This is my Hero. Thank you Enrique."