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I was in love with him one-sidedly.

I can only see him from afar but I would never be part of his world.

I was naive, foolishly infatuated with him, and knew that I would just become a distant memory for him, just a random person who was with him in my childhood. But it's already big for me, I was already thankful that I could still be named in his life yet humans are greedy.

I craved for his love and so managed to be his wife due to my parent's love for me and the approval from his family.

But that's all I was, just his wife in a legal sense, we haven't even talked for a minute after getting married.

He just treated me like a roommate, someone who is not worth his time, just a person being placed on his side.

That's what I thought of our relationship, turns out it was nothing like the real thing, at all.

...

He was that aloof and clever person, a genius in everyone's eyes. He was cold to everyone, a person who never initiated contact with anyone yet he fell for me.

He liked me.

And I do too.

We were polar opposites, I was weak and timid and he was strong and independent. He was five years older than me yet we grew up in the same neighborhood.

He took care of me and everyone seeing his gentle eyes would tease him saying that he's good to his little bride.

I've hated that word since the first time I heard it, little. I was small and young, I couldn't catch up with him and that made me anxious.

But I didn't give up and that's when he confessed, he liked me, I still can't believe that.

Him liking me? It felt like a dream and I knew I wouldn't wanna wake up from it.

He told me he liked me, he thought that it was just a momentarily impulse, a crush from childhood that would soon face away by time yet it didn't.

His eyes would stray from me now and then, he would think of me from time to time and he would feel his chest-beating so loud every time I get near.

That's when he realized I was no longer the little girl whom he thinks will lose interest in him. I'm already a young woman, a bidding rose who stayed by his side till now.

Then we got engaged, he was working in his family's company while I was still at the university. He would bring gifts to me, take me to places, and spend time with me.

We were so in love at that time and that's when she appeared.

She was that vibrant woman, she was the definition of a woman and her eyes were set on him. She tried to break us apart, the pride in her bones wouldn't let her give up but we stayed together.

Even if I'm angry at her, I can't help but pity her at the same time for I was in her position in the past. I was one-sidedly in love with a person and it hurts.

Even so, she never gives up, and that when things started turning for the worse. She acted like an evil witch, her actions can land her in jail but she never stopped. She continued until she was defeated.

She died after that and I went to her burial, my heart was filled with guilt but I know that I couldn't do anything about it. She has her own decision in life and I have no right to stop her from doing those.

So I begin to wish, to let her be happy and meet someone who will love her wholeheartedly.

...

"What are you thinking?"

I looked to a familiar pair of raven eyes, gentleness overflowing in as I snuggle towards him.

"It's a secret!" I ran off and burst into laughter after hearing his rapid footsteps.

"Be careful! You-" I pout my lips and flashed him my teary eyes making him panic as if his butt was being scaled in the fire.

"I'm sorry I shouldn't have shouted at you! I won't do it again I promise so please don't cry hm? Don't cry baby, it first my heart"

I tried to stop myself from laughing and immediately throw that out of the window.

"You-" he stopped and helplessly smiled at me, his eyes crinkled in happiness.

I turn away from him and walk along the shore, the sun sprinkling me with its heat as the fine were sand soaks my feet.

As I continued to walk with a smile on my face, I felt someone holding my wrist and turning me around. Soon, I felt his calloused hands in my cheeks as he stroke them gently with his fingertips. He leaned close to me, warmth radiating from his body as he gazed at my eyes with such tenderness.

Then he whispered in my ears tickling me, his hands on my waist tightly embracing me.

"I love you baby"

"Hmph, I'm not a baby anymore! I'm someone who is about to give birth to a baby!"

He chuckled and pecked me in my ears making me glare at him before saying.

"No matter what, you'll always be my baby"