Chapter 38: Moving On (1)
After his marriage with another woman, I heard Senior Rizal was taking a break from his study. Then, I heard nothing. Nothing about him, but talks about were spreading like wild fire in the campus. Almost everyone was looking at with pity in their eyes, so even openly mocked .
First week was the hardest. I had to answer the questions from people who showed their concern towards , but most of them only wanted to know the story. I told them, we broke up before he got married. Only so of them knew the truth and I didn’t feel the obligation to explain more to those who didn’t know.
The following weeks ca as a breeze through my already painful and tiring life. Even though I didn’t have to answer to questions, I still had to deal with the stares people gave . Through tis, I finally managed to get used to it and people started to believe , that we broke up before Senior Rizal got married.
And I couldn’t care less for them.
“Everything’s good at campus?” Tom asked as soon as he t in front of the dorm.
I nodded, walked into the dorm without saying anything. The last ti I spoke to him in front of the dorm earned a suspicious stare from my dorm mates who happened to be in front of the dorm as well. They thought I was shocked and went a bit insane because of the pressure and they insisted to accompany for almost a whole week, talking to about other things other than romance, sleeping in my room with , even advising to move on quickly.
I seriously thought I would go insane with how they looked after , but deep inside my heart, I felt really grateful. Another one who almost felt insane with their existence was Tom. He complained repeatedly to them, telling them that there was no way I would go crazy over Senior Rizal leaving when he was still there with . Of course, his complains went into deaf ears -only I could hear him. No matter how hard he yelled at them to leave alone, they couldn’t hear them.
.....
With them insisting to accompany , we lost our ti together. He would only huff in rage and flew outside to leave us girls alone.
But, he had never attempted to scare them out even once. He said, even though he didn’t like them taking away from him, he also felt grateful that they would support . He even felt great when they talked bad about Senior Rizal.
When the ti ca where they were sure I was okay, Tom was so happy he accidentally knocked on my book till it flew and fell near their feet. They were about to go out, but because of that they stopped. I broke in sweat as I tried to find an excuse to them. Luckily, they believed when I said I was chasing away a fly with the book and it flew out of my grasp.
With so many things happened to , I couldn’t care less about Senior Rizal and the issue about out there. With Tom besides for almost every ti now, I almost forgot that I used to have a boyfriend nad Rizal.
I guessed I moved on pretty quickly.
A month after that, I t soone on my way back ho late at night.
He was Senior Rizal.
Dressing up casually, I noticed he looked slightly thinner than he was before. His eyes lacked the vigor he usually possessed. His charming and gentle features matured a lot in a month. He must have been through a lot to change drastically. But, I also noticed I didn’t feel the butterfly I used to have when I t him.
“Hi...” He greeted awkwardly.
“Hi.” I replied before I continued my steps. It was a good thing that Tom was not accompanying this ti.
“I want to talk to you.” He said hastily as I walked past by him.
I stopped, and turned around to face him. Mix emotions ca swirling inside my heart. Gritted my teeth, I tried to suppress the anger that threatened to co out.
“Please...” He begged.
Swallowing my anger, I took a deep breath. “Fine.”
We went to a nearby park. He bought a cup of hot vanilla latte and a cup of black coffee for himself from a coffee stand in the park. After saying thanks for the drink, I took a sip slowly. He sat besides , maintaining a tre distance between us. Silence fell between us for a couple of minutes.
“I’m sorry.” He broke the silence with these words.
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