I Met You at My Worst

Tenderness Behind the Flower

Axel came back from a trip and by the time he landed on the airport he texted Alisa and asked her for a dinner.

...phone rings...

Text message: Meet me at the Waine cafeteria this dinner :) – Axel-

It was already night and Axel was waiting at cafeteria. A minute later Alisa came and they had dinner.

"How was your work at the company?" Axel asked

"It was great, it was my dream job after all." She replied

"I mean with Asher?" he said

"It has nothing to do with him, I don't intend to put personal emotions over my work" she replied

Axel realized he was over the line so he changed the topic

"uhm.. Alisa" Axel said

"What" she replied

"What does your name mean? Alisa, it's such a pretty name" Axel said

Alisa had her broken smile and said...

"It means 'great happiness'" , "How about you?" she added

"Peace" he answered

"It's a nice name :)" she said

They both smiled and after they ate their dinner Axel has something to go first so Alisa walks home alone. As they bound to separate paths with Axel, she saw Asher standing and looking at her from afar.

"Asher..." Alisa said

...Phone ringing...

Asher called Alisa from a distance and Alisa answered the phone call while looking at Asher

"You know how long I've waited for you to come back?" Asher said with a teary eye

"I felt so much pain after you broke up with me five years ago, I tried to forget you, to let you go and hate you... but it was so hard." Asher said

"I looked for happiness, my face was happy because I was smiling but my heart is crying and was never joyful without you. Why can't I hate you? And how can I hate you when I still have the same feeling five years ago until now?" he added

"You keep on pretending that we've never met before, you keep on acting like I was a stranger to you and that kills me twice as much as how it hurts me 5 years ago, yes I was waiting and I'm breaking so bad after knowing I was never been part of your life, please come back and this time please fix me" Asher said as he was trying to stop his tears to pour from his eyes.

...phone call ended...

Axel saw and heard everything. The three of them was standing distance away from each other, they were shocked, speechless, and all they did was to stare at each other.

Alisa weren't able to say a thing but she has words inside her mind...

"You were right that I was just pretending but you're wrong that you think that you were never been part of my life"

"I wanted to tell you everything what's in my mind right now but I guess it's pointless, I wasn't a person with my words, I was weak and wasn't brave enough, I was afraid and that time I never knew I would fall for you so bad that it affects me so much after knowing you'll leave to study abroad"

Alisa was in her bed already but the emotions she felt was still there. She clearly saw into Asher's eyes the sadness and felt the peek of sincerity and pain as he said those words to her. The moment she felt was frozen that she can't barely move and speak everything she want in her mind. She was barely in deep thought as her eyes begin to pour some tears and closed her eyes until she fell asleep.