Stories with Moral Lessons

"Fulfilling a Promise"

Hi! By the way, this is a love story.
Enjoy reading!

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      Ever since the beginning , the girl’s family members disagreed her relationship with the boy because of family background. If she insisted of being together with him, she would suffer for her whole lifetime.

      Because of the pressure applied by the family members, she frequently quarrelled with him. The girl did love the boy; she used to ask him, “How much do you love me?” Because the boy was not good with words, he used to make her angry. With additional comment from her parents, her mood got even worse. The boy had become her “anger releasing target”, and the boy just silently allowed her to continuously release her anger on him.

      Later, the boy graduated from a university. He planned to further study overseas but before he left, he proposed to the girl… "I don’t know how to say nice words but I do know that, I love you. If you agree, I am willing to take care of you for my whole life. About your family members, I will work hard to convince them to agree on us... Will you marry me?” the girl agreed.

      Her parents eventually agreed with them because of the efforts shown by the boy. Before the boy went oversea, they were finally engaged. The girl stayed back in their hometown and stepped into the working society whereas the boy continued his study oversea. They maintained their relationship through telephone and letters. Although time was difficult to get through with, both of them never gave up.

      One day, the girl left home for work. Unfortunately, when she was on her way to the bus stop, a car lost its control and knocked her down. When she awoke from unconsciousness, she saw her parents' miserable faces and she realized how seriously she got hurt and how fortunate of her not to get killed.

      She looked at her parents, their faces were all wet by their tears. She tried to comfort them. But then, she found out that she couldn’t even spell out a word; she tried her best to say something but all she managed to do was to breathe without any sound. She’s undeniably mute. According to the doctor, the injury affected her brain and it caused her to be mute for the rest of her life. Her parents encouraged her, but she couldn’t even say a single word. Throughout the days, she cried without emitting any sound.

      Later, the girl was  discharged from the hospital. She returned to her home. Everything was still like before, except that one day, the phone ring had turned into the worst nightmare of hers. Ring after ring, continuously stimulating the pain that she was trying to bury; but she couldn’t talk to her fiance and she didn’t want to be a burden to him. So she decided to write him a letter telling him that she no longer wanted to wait for his return. Even though she expected what would happen, she was deeply hurt when their relationship ended. She returned to him the engagement ring. All she could do was to allow the tears to fall freely down her face.

      Her father decided to move to a new place, after seeing the pain she was suffering. Hoping that she could forget everything and be happier into a new environment, the girl started to learn, slowly picking up sign language, and started over again. Also telling herself to forget the boy.

      One day, her best friend told her that the boy was back; he was searching everywhere for her. She asked her best friend not to mention anything about her and to tell him to just forget her.

      More than a year had passed but there was no news from the boy. One day her best friend told her that the boy was getting married soon and passed the wedding card to her. She opened the card sadly but, unexpectedly, she found her name on it!

      The moment she wanted to ask her best friend about it, the boy appear in front of her. With a familiar sign language, he told her, "I spent more than a year’s time to force  myself to learn sign language, in order to tell you that I have not forgotten our promise. Give me an opportunity, let me be your voice. I love you.”

      Looking at the slow sign language by the boy, and the engagement ring she gave back to him, she finally smiled and found the true happiness she was hoping for.

Moral: Do not be a coward and run away whenever there is a problem; remember that every problem has a solution. Never ever break someone’s heart; you may not know when it will happen to you.

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Awww...this story is very touching.

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