Love Until The End
(short story/drama/tragedy/romantic)

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“If love could just disappear in a flick of a hand, I will do it for you and Andre,” Dianne said with teary eyes to Maya in their phone conversation, after which she unfold a truth involving the two lovers they carried all their life. Dianne so loved Andre that she had done everything just to make him happy, even if it hurts. But the time had come when she had finally known everything, and should accept that a place nothing in Andre's heart is hers.

With so much depression and heartache, she decided to check-in in what they called “heartbreak hotel,” where she shared the night with Marco, a friend which happened to be there also in the hotel. They first met in a hospital at one time where she confessed to him an fatal disease she carried all her life, a sickness she never tell even her own family. With that reason they became friends; but later on Marco can't help himself falling for Dianne, the fact he's still hiding to her.

Marco, like Dianne, is also a heartbreak guy. Just days before, he was refused to be loved by a girl he had for a long time. They were for many years; but his love grew erratic. What he knows is that the girl will be the one for him, but he can never be right. That girl had her heart reserved for another guy, thus the refusal. That girl is, no other than Maya. Though with that case, the linking of their fates were still unknown to all of them.

There in the hotel lobby, sitting in a couch, Marco and Dianne shared all their heartbreaks, stray their emotions, and lend each other's arms the whole night. Dianne still can't help herself crying, and Marco tried to ease those feelings.

“Why do I hurt? I should be happy for them right? It's my own decision. And I loved him that's why I do so. I should not cry anymore!” Dianne started, intensely crying.

“No' never halt your emotions. It's normal that sometimes when you give all for love, you're hurting. Remember Dianne, hurt is requisite to a truer love,” Marco explained, still trying to ease her feelings. But Dianne continues to cry, then stopped for a moment.

“Why is serendipity evil? He's taking off even if there are feelings hurted. He's not compassionate.”

Dianne fell her head off to Marco's shoulders, then cried a lot. Marco just feel the moment with the one he love in his thrust.

“Cry on, cry on, Dianne. Everything will turn out well after all these,” he whispered.

The night gets deeper, but the two continues to own it. Silence comes for a moment, then broken.

“How about you, will you sacrifice your own happiness to the one's you love, or just be selfish enough so as not to lose her?” Dianne queried.

Marco thinks shortly, then answered back.

“Love itself is a sacrifice, Dianne. When you loved someone at the first place, you already sacrificed. However painful, you must always be prepared to sacrifice as what you've gave up for love.”

“Then how about yourself? Everyone deserves to be happy, don't you?”

“Selfish love can never be called love. And happiness thus can never be drawn from selfishness. If love cannot be given to you at the first moment, it only means that there reserved for you at a later moment, sometimes better. Don't persuade love that is not for you as it will just cause a more strenuous hurt.”

Tears continues to fell from Dianne's eyes, her head still leaning in comrade's shoulders. Then silence comes in permanently, as Dianne finally gone to a sleep. Marco slowly put her head off his shoulder to lay her in a cushion. He removed his jacket to warm up his lady as it's going colder. He assured that she will bear comfortable sleep so as to have also a nice rise tomorrow morning. He whispered “Goodnight!”before positioning himself to rest, then later fell into a pleasant sleep.

The rays of the morning sun the next day glare Marco's eyes and awakes him. He rose happily as the face of his lady love is his first stare. He then tried to wake her up, but it doesn't work so he tried again. But it didn't also. He thinks that maybe she had fell into a most comfortable sleep of her life, with him.

A moment later he tried to wake her up again, but she didn't, even a move. His heart turn rapidly and his emotion start to shoot off, with his eyes gone teary.

“Dianne, wake up please! My goodness please!!!” She didn't wake up. He felt his heartbeat, but he can't feel its beat; no air comes from her airway either -- she will never wake up already.

He began to breakdown. He cried so much as if it will wake her up; but it will never happen. He hugged her up; and feel her still warm body. He's in a hay of sorrow; saying the words “I love you so much if you would just know.”

She died because of her sickness; the cancer that have long limited her life. It is the sickness that she told Marco when they first met; but even him can't help as it's really so helpless. If she would just told everybody, it may have cured; but she chose to hide it so as not to be pitied.

With Marco left by Dianne, his feelings for her can never be told someday. Hoe he wished he would have finally found his destiny; but its still not to be. Though he's so happy enough that at least, in her very last breath she was with him; but he can never ever say that she's the one he'll love, until the end.

A Prodigious

Graduation Day

(drama/narrative)

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It had finally come! At last, the time that everyone is kindling to achieve will just be few hours sooner. But unfortunately, it can never make me glorious still. I am the only person graduating dreary, afflicted, wretched, unhappy, miserable, any other words synonymous. And what else, I am also finishing with honors, a cum laude. But it's still not, not yet enough to make this face turn blissful. My parents, unluckily, could not come. And they could never come indeed. That's the only thing that could complete my special day.

In my life I've never found myself happy being with the company of others; I'm really a lonesome. I grew up with no mom or dad either. I'm with my aunt who's a single mom, and alas she could never find time with me, even with my most important events. I had also my cousins that are both working already; and what could you expect in that, I am not close to anyone of them. I just skill my time and my life studying and studying, and with no other pastimes at all, I am a true-blue killjoy. Even with all the chances of having other activities besides studying, I would still prefer so as I believe I am doomed to be a round-headed party-pooper nerd.

And so I brought it up in school. I had no close friends at all, and I'm not grateful to have one. They thought of me as a snob, an aloof, a man-hater, and I really don't care. But there is only one time when I have so many friends, and 'best friends' too, in just one click. That magical time are the time of quizzes and exams. They're letting me feel that I belong, though I know they really just want me to share my answers. But so sorry to disappoint them, I'm doing my best to get good grades alone. But don't get me mad, I am believing that the time will come my parents will get back in the country, and should that time would come, I can show to them how I achieved my good education; and so they can be proud of me. How I wished that time will immediately come.

In every graduation days that had come my life, I'm always the only one getting blue. I'm always in the cream of the crop, meaning in graduation honor roll; if not a valedictorian, a salutatorian maybe. People keeps telling me that I'm so lucky, that I should be happy, but I can't. It's different still if your own parents will be proud of you. I never endured those single moments that the one putting your medallions or doilies will be your own loved ones. But in my case even my closest of kin could not made that custom. It's always my teachers or my professors that doing so.

And now, this time had finally come, my supposedly last graduation ceremony (I don't want to study through after this). No differences, still one of those graduation rites for me. But at least, this time I had my aunt and cousins that at last could come. All my co-graduates are happy with their true blood parents right at their side, waiting for them to celebrate the most celebrated. The program had started. The remarkable march of our life ended with exultation. Everyone is excited, as the meritorious granting of our diplomas will later start. Everyone feels happy, as the jiff comes when the end of our long and illustrious journey will be given its worth. How lucky they are that in the very moment of their life they had the most valuable persons of their life is at their side, that for me the most eminent glory above all.

And the awarding ceremony for the honorable students had started. This time must be the most rejoiced, as I will be receiving the distinction I deserved most. Just a few minutes later the limelight will be finally mine. All others that had come up before me enjoyed the moment with their parents, and as I watched them I couldn't elude to think of my own beloved. I am turning teary-eyed, but I must stand by it. I could even wish to stop the moment, but the time could not be beaten anymore. I must face it, I know.

My turn had come; as my name was called everybody is yelling and applauding, and turned more deafening when I finally stepped my foot up the stage. I felt so overwhelmed that time, I and almost fly up high because of mixed feelings of deluge and happiness. I looked up my aunt 'coz she's the one pleading my medallion in my chest. But I'm quite shocked 'cause she's not standing nor threshed that I'm already the one to be awarded. But she's just clapping in joy with my cousins, I'm weirded by them. But the next episodes that happened awe-stricken me. A couple is going up the stage, I can't recognize their face at first sight, but I know they are intended for me as there's no other graduates sharing the jiff with me.

As they come nearer...and then nearer...and nearer to me, I can't believe my sight. I've finally recognized them, they are my mom and dad. But I can't still believe my sight. I blinked, and then looked at my aunts and cousins, they looked gaily. They seemed sending a message to me that I had finally had my life-long wish, they're just a few steps to me. I face my parents, their looks gazed me. I'm already in tears that moment, as they suit the medallion at my chest. I'm not joyous for the medallion that I have, I am more enraged for the hugs and kisses I'm always longing from them. I almost don't want that moment to end, ignoring all the people watching us, I hugged them intensively. I want them to feel how I missed them much. I don' wanna end the day 'coz I know tomorrow or the day after they will again leave me in gloom. I've spend that precious day in my life with just them, and I won't forget in my life that very special graduation day.

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