The Love Letter

Chapter 3

(Jeremy Irvine as Eros Draven)
Eros's POV

"Today we are gathered here for the memorial of Reina Heartfelia, a gentle and kind soul........." The father from our church was still speaking but I had already stopped listening.

It's been a week since she died. But it still feels like yesterday. I was so happy she was smiling again, she seemed so happy and now this.

Why didn't he tell me before?!

I still ask that question to myself all the time and even though Zaki is sitting right beside me, numb and tired, I still can't bring myself to ask him. I know it was because she didn't wanted me to know.

Is this my fault? I never should have left. It was a huge deal my dad wanted me to be leading, to test how good I was with these buisness kind of stuff. But he didn't know how much time this could take so I was told to keep this a secret and just tell my friends that I am moving.

But I was so clueless, that in between the deal and my studies I never was able to contact anyone for the past whole year.

I still remember what happened that day, the GRADUATION DAY.
The way she walked out of the door in her white dress, with her eyes rolled back, nose bleeding and legs unsteady. The way she felt so tiny in my arms, the way she kept saying my name as if I was the only thing she was holding on too. The way she -

"Eros"

"Huh..-" I looked up to see my mom's face, her eyes filled with fresh tears and just like that I was brought back to reality.

"Its time for your Eulogy, Darling."

I don't think I can do it. I looked at everybody around the burial ground, everyone was expecting me to get up, to go speak, but due to some reason my eyes went straight to the flower bed near the entrance of the church.

There she was Reina Heartfelia. The girl who looked as beautiful as an angel in her peach colour dress, her hair flowing softly with the wind and green eyes sparkling with excitement to tell me something new. She was calling me to come to her. But I knew she is not there, because she is behind me, around 3 meters away. Cold, pale and without life ready to go away from me, Zaki, all of us.

Traitor. A single tear slipped from my eyes. Traitor, traitor, traitor, TRAITOR?!

I felt a hand on my shoulder, it was Zaki. This was probably the first time he made any type of contact with me since we got the news.

He looked me in the eyes and just gave me his bright smile, or at least he was trying. But his eyes, were a completely different story. He was crying, I guess he hasn't realized it himself.

I just nodded and went to the podium.
Taking a deep breath I took the note out of my pocket, but for some reason I wasn't able to grasp anything I had written. I tried. I really did. But I just couldn't.

I was angry, frustrated and the damn paper wasn't helping at all. I didn't even realized when the paper in my hand got crushed.

I took a shaking breath and looked up, my eyes moving to the casket beside me and then for some reason it immediately shifted to the flower bed. She was still standing there smiling, the next thing I know I had already started talking to her.

"Reina Heartfelia, you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I remember when we met, you were looking so adorable with those green eyes looking at me as if I am from another planet, but then you came to me and asked what my name was and next thing I knew we where in the play house me playing the part of your husband." She chuckled and so I continued.