OUR LOVE STORY ... Rose

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OUR LOVE STORY

ROSE

I,m Andrew…I was only 13 when me and my family moved in California from Philippines. I t was summer and I didn,t have any friends yet so I decided to spend 15 hours a week as a volunteer in a nursing home near our place. I was talking with one of the patients there in the garden when I saw this 8 year old girl talking with another patient. Her name is Rose. Though she,s younger than me we,ve became very good friends since she,s a half Filipino and can also speak Tagalog. She helped me know the place we,re in and helped me know the dos and don,ts that,s why it became easy for me to adjust in my new home place. We,ve became best of friends since then.

We have different schools because she was still in grade school while I was already in junior high. But we usually walk together when going to school and going home from school. Spend time together whenever there were no classes. We were very at ease with each other talking almost about everything, except my feelings for her. She was a lot younger and I didn,t have any idea if she feels the same way too so I chose to keep it on myself. She was popular not only because of her beauty but also because she,s smart. She enjoys beaches a lot, it was our favorite hangout, we both love to sing and eat ice cream. Sometimes my mom invites her to come over to our house and eat dinner there then I,ll walk her home after. Sometimes I come over her place at night hanging on their terrace and watching the stars since their house were just 2 blocks away from ours. Both our families knew we,re best of friends, that was the reason why they were very comfortable of our friendship. Sometimes her parents don,t even allow her to go on a party without me so she usually asks me to come with her whenever she goes out. She even became my partner in my junior and senior prom. Want to know how? Well, I,ve made up a story that my partner cannot come so she volunteered that she,ll take the place of my partner.  She was amazing, I,ve been with the most beautiful girl in town and everyone was staring on us, I felt like a prince with a beautiful princess that every guy were envying because of her.  If she only knew how much I love her and how much I always wanted to make her happy.

I,ve graduated my senior high and took up medicine because it was my dream ever since I was a kid and since I,ve got a scholarship in one of a prestigious university in California. She was still in highschool at that time but I was already excited that sooner we,ll be on the same university when she graduates since she also likes to take up a medical course. She made a lot of friends during her highschool but we still spend time together whenever we have free time, calling, emailing and chatting. Then my most awaited time came, it was her graduation. I was very happy because I was expecting we,ll be on the same university. Then one day, she came to me to say goodbye because she will be studying her college in the Philippines. She said she did not came on the examination day for a scholarship examination in the university where I was studying because she was sick on that day. And that her parents, income wasn,t enough for her college and her older sister,s because her sister was also in college.  So her parents will be sending her to the Philippines for college. I,ve talked to the administration of the university where I was studying to give Rose another chance to take the examination but they refused. I was so sad, if only I could do anything to make her stay. I spent almost all of my time with her right before she left. I did everything to make her happy because I knew how sad she was about leaving. Then I gave her a silver necklace, I told her to wear it always so she would always remember me even when we,re far apart. And soon she left without telling her that I love her very much.

She took nursing there and we kept in touch thru email, chatting and a lot of times I call her. She told me she made a lot of friends there and how she wishes I was there also. Then there came a moment that I,ve became very busy, my course needs a lot of dedication and hard work that I,ve hardly call her on the phone. She continued on emailing me even if I was too busy and couldn,t answer her back. Reading her emails makes me happy but one day, I didn,t receive d any emails from her, I thought maybe she was just busy but since then I never received any emails from her. I,ve tried to call her on the phone but I couldn,t contact her. I thought maybe she got tired of it because I wasn,t answering back in any of her mails. So I,ve emailed her everyday even if I was very busy in the hospital but still I  didn,t received even a single word from her until one day, when I opened my email, I saw her name, my heart pounds so fast. But my tear just fell when she said she have found the right man for her and that she was sorry for not writing me  a letter.  She said she,s praying for me to find the right girl for me and that she was very happy with that guy. Since then, I,ve never received any message from her. Everyday, I kept on checking my mails hoping she,ll send me one. I,ve tried everything just to forget my feelings for her. I,ve got a girlfriend though I know it was still her whom I really wanted to be with. But we were always fighting because of Rose, I just can,t help myself from talking about her and she gets jealous of her every time I talk about her.

Then I,ve graduated my medicine course and soon got my license in my profession then I went to the Philippines for a vacation. I went to Rose,s house in Manila and just let my relatives bring my luggage to Baguio and be there the next day or two.  She wasn,t there when I arrived so I,ve waited for her outside the gate. Then she came, I was so happy seeing her wearing the necklace I gave her, she,ve grown like a real lady and became even more beautiful. She smiled and came running towards me and hugged me tightly. She let me stay in her house and introduced me with her friends there as a bestfriend – cousin so that her boyfriend would not get jealous. She told me she was always talking about me with her friends and that made me very happy because even if we were not talking that much, she never forgets about me. We were still the same as we were even if we,ve never seen each other for years. We could talk almost about everything maybe because we were soulmates. She introduced me to her boyfriend, he loves her so much and so was she and that hurts me deep inside. I still love her so much. We,ve spent time together during my vacation, I brought her with me when I visited my relatives and they all liked her. And soon I went back to California to practice my profession. It was very sad for me to leave her but I knew she,ll be going back to California too as soon as she finished her college and besides she was already on her senior year.

But since I left we never had any communication again. She didn,t even wrote me even a single letter. She didn,t answered my phone calls and emails. I was so sad thinking of her and her boyfriend together. If only I had the courage to confess my feelings for her earlier right before that guy came into her life then I would be happier. But she,s already taken and it,s killing me inside. I,ve spent my time working even my rest days in the hospital just to forget the sadness I was feeling. I usually get home just to sleep.

Then one day when I was in the hospital having my rounds in the surgical ward, a familiar voice called my name and when I turn my head towards that voice I saw Rose wearing a white nurse uniform. She smiled and said she was just hired as a registered nurse in that area. I was so happy seeing her, I hugged her without even thinking where we were. Then we went to dinner after our duty. She told me she didn,t write back because it was her senior year and that she was so busy on her schooling. Then she became even busier when she was reviewing for the licensure examination after she graduated. I asked her about her boyfriend and she said they broke up right before she left to California. Her boyfriend wanted to get married before she gets back to California but she refused. She was sad but she said she,ll recover as time passes by. I was very happy that they broke up but didn,t show it to her, I,ve just comforted her and told her that I was sorry for her of what had happened with their relationship.

We,ve spent most of the time together, and it was a great feeling that we both work in the same hospital. I knew she already feels that I have special feelings for her even though she,s not saying anything. We were spending most of our time together but still I didn,t have the courage to tell her how I felt for her, I guess I was so afraid of losing our friendship if she doesn,t feel the same way too. What I know is that I,m happy having her on my side.