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KUMP! KUMP! KUMP!... The sound came on the door.
"Jane, kindly get the door." Julia says. She wasn't sure if she wanted to speak to anyone, but she knows that she has to speak to someone.
Jane hesistates, "You sure you want to speak to anyone?"
"I've been speaking to myself for three days,Jane. Besides, you might actually be the one speaking to the visitor. I don't have friends, you know."
KUMP! KUMP! KUMP!... The sound comes again.
Jane stares at Julia for a couple of minutes before leaving the room get the door. She opened the door, stared at the visitor who had been standing there for over 30 minutes.
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"Prince! What do you want?"
"Please, Jane, I just want to get a chance to speak to her. I promise to stop coming after I do that, please."
Jane hissed, "You're very funny to think that I would ever let you see Julia after all you did to her. You're a pathetic liar!"
Prince bends his head. "I know. I'm everything and anything you want to call me, but please let me speak to her."
"Get out! Now!" She slams the door.
Julia had been listening to them. She wasn't sure if she wanted to speak to anyone, at least for now. Prince was the last person she ever wanted to speak to. But what do they say about facing your fears? She just wanted to look him in the face and ask him a very simple question, "WHY?"
"Jane, let him in."
Jane turns to her immediately. She gave a surprising expression. Of course, she should be surprised. "What? I should..."
Julia replied immediately, "Yes, please. Don't worry, okay. I won't mess up."
Jane opens the door, "Five minutes! Your time is already ticking."
"Thank you" Prince says gently as he walks into the sitting room. He sees Julia immediately and walks towards her. "Julia, plea..."
She didn't let him complete his statement, "Don't do that. You want to talk? Sit, and talk."
Prince quietly nods and stands up. He sits opposite Julia. He look at Julia, gently turns to Jane and looks back to Julia. She knows what that means, Jane should excuse them.
"Jane" Julia look at her and nods her head.
"Be careful " She moves into the bed room.
"If you are here to say sorry, then you shouldn't be here."
Prince stares at her, "What better thing could I say? You know I love you..."
Julia gets emotional on hearing that, "Do not tell me about love! You know absolutely nothing about love!"
Prince brings down his voice to the lowest. "You think I wanted to separated from you? That wasn't my fault, Jane. I ...."
"Just stop!"
She stares at him for a couple of minutes without saying a word.
"You know, I thought you were different. I thought I had found the perfect person for me. I could swear to the whole wide world, in the biggest stage of the world that you were the best man a lady could ever want. I guess I was wrong.."
Prince opens his mouth to talk, "Julia I...."
She stops him from talking, "I am not done"
He gently bends his head.
"The first person was AINA. I loved him more than anything in this world."
FLASH BACK
In a restaurant down the street, Julia orders for fried rice for herself and for Jane.
"Here you go, ma'am" The waiter streches her hand to give her what she ordered.
She turns to him. She had been looking at the beautiful flower beside their CEO'S office. She used to see such kind of amazing flowers in her father's office. She obviously got attracted to the flower immediately she saw it.
"Oh, yeah sorry. I was just".. She points at the flower.
The waiter smiles, "It's beautiful."
"Yeah, very beautiful. I've for this kind of flowers, but I couldn't get them."
"Yeah, that particular flower has only one vendor"
Julia smiles. "I'd like to meet the person one day."
She brings out her ATM card to pay for what she bought.
"I'm so sorry l,ma. But our machine is not available at the moment. And for some reasons, we only accept cash."
Julia looks suprised. "Wait. What are you talking about? That I need to pay with cash? But I don't have cash with me."
"I'm sorry, ma. I'm working based on the instructions I was given."
Julia expresses disappointment. "Hmm, it's okay. I'd have to drop the food and get cash outside."
"No need. I'd pay for it"
Julia and the waiter turns in unison to know who said that. It was Aina, the mastermind of those beautiful flowers. He had been called to get another set of flowers.
"Good afternoon, sir" Says the waiter.
"Good afternoon, sir. I didn't remember knowing you from anywhere."
Aina smiles. That's what he always do. He talks just a bit, but he smiles more.
"He is the flower vendor we talked about earlier" The waiter says.
Aina smiles again. "I see. So you guys have been talking about me"
Julia laughs. "You did an amazing job, right there."
Aina looks at the flowers, "Oh, that? Yeah, thanks. My mother inspired it."
Julia stares at him, "Your mother does this too?"
"No, she does not. But she just knows what to say when I'm making my combinations to give me the best result."
Julia smiles. "You have the best mother"
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PRESENT DAY
"I invited him over to my place. I wanted to watch him make those flowers, because I was in love with flowers. He was very nice to me. It took me months, before I could trust him completely. He became part of my life. I became so attached to him that I want to see him every single minute. But he left, after wasting my time for two years."
FLASH BACK
"Aina, please, don't go! Okay let me come with you."
Aina smiles. "Julia, I'm sorry that we have to path this way. But the truth is that what we were doing was flirting. Stop behaving like you don't know that men flirt, okay. I'm relocating to Dubai, and there are many girls to flirt with over there. I can't stay beck because of one, you know"
Julia steps back. She could not believe those words came out from Aina. She couldn't believe what she heard from him.
"Everything we shared, all those times we were together, it was all a flirt for you? You made me fall in love with you, and you call that flirting? You told me that you loved me and you wanted me to be your queen. It was all for flirting? Aina, you really don't mean this, do you?"
PRESENT DAY
*"I promised myself that I would never fall in love with any other guy until I find someone that would marry me. I was flirting with any man that comes to me for any form of relationship. I did all those things to forget about Aina. Until you came into the picture. We were never supposed to meet. You were the least person I expected to have in my life. When we were assigned to work together in making the project defence, I kicked against it. I went to the lecturer's office to talk agaisnt it, because I never liked you.
FLASH BACK
"Sir, I can't work with that guy. He doesn't look like someone that has the financial capacity to carry the weight of the project. Do you want me to fail?"
Mr Sam, the young lecturer, smiled at Julia.
"If he doesn't have, then make him to have. You can't change your partner, I'm sorry to disappoint you."
"What happened to people that would not stress me the way he would? I have never failed your course. I have always been one of the best students in your course. Why did you decide to punish me with such person?"
Mr Sam removed his glasses. "I love the fact that you have faced so many challenges. And the good thing there is that you have always been conquering those challenges. That is the reason why you have never failed my course. Implement the same energy you usually implement when I give projects, and I assure gou you that you will pass."
PRESENT DAY
"I begged my friends, but none of them could help me. We did the project together, that was when I discovered that you were just a sweet soul. I grew fond of you. I became attached to you, and was just waiting for you say the word. I wanted to flirt, but I just couldn't. I broke the promise I made to myself. I fell in love with you. I never knew and would have never believed that you would do what you did to me. You engaged another lady, in front of me! You couldn't even do it without my knowledge. And now, you are here, to say sorry?"
Prince says no word.
"You broke my trust for you. You hurt me beyond the way any other person could have hurt me. You should leave"
Prince gently stands up, moves towards the door and stops.
"If only you knew why I did it, you could known how necessary it was. You think I ever wanted to betray you? Julia I loved you from the first day I set my eyes on you. And I have loved you from that day till this minute. I never wanted to do that.."
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Julia modulates her voice, "Then why did you do it?!"
"Because your father forced me to do it!"
Julia takes a pause for a couple of seconds. "What?"
"Your father approached me. He thinks I am a low life. He thinks you don't deseve someone like me. He thinks I can't take care of you. All those things you saw, none of them were my idea. I was forced to do everything you saw there."
"Why didn't you speak to me about it?"
"He made me make a vow that I would say nothing to you. He threatened to put me in jail if I said anything to you. I didn't want to go to jail. I have a sister to take care of. I could never betray you. I could never betray my love for you. But I had no choice."
Julia gently sits down on the floor.
"Julia, I'm sorry. I know I should have told you. He says he had found someone for you.."
"I don't want whoever he found! You are the one I want!.. I can't even believe anything again."
Jane quitely walks out of the room. At this point, she knows her presence could help. "I know the truth when I hear it. Prince is telling the truth"
Prince gently moves to Julia, holds her while she cries in his arms.
"We should just end this once and for all"
THE SAME DAY - EVENING
Julia's father had been called earlier.. "You need to come quickly, sir. She is wants to kill herself." That was the only thing Jane said when Julia's father picked the call.
Mr Paul did not hesistate, he moved down to his daughter's as fast as he could. He didn't bother knocking on the door, it was already open knowing fully well that he would come.
"Where is she?!" He says immediately he enters and sees Jane.
"I'm right here." Julia comes out from the room.
"Why would you want to kill yourself?! What have you ever asked that you did not get? Why would you want to hurt me by killing youself?"
"You gave me everything, dad. And you also took everything away from me."
"What are you talking about"
"She is talking about me" Prince walks out of the room.
"He told me everything."
Mr Paul frowns at her, " This boy is a low life! This boy cannot take care of you! I have someone much better and suitable to love you and marry you."
"Have you ever asked me if that's actually the kind of person I want? A person I don't even know. That's why you decided to take away the guy who makes me happy? I love him, dad. And if you won't accept him, then I'd kill myself."
"What? No, please, Julia, you can't do that!."
"I love her, and I will be with her"
Janes clears her throat, "Mr Paul, your daughter knows what is best for her. The both of them a perfect together. Let her live her life."
Mr Paul says nothing for a couple of minutes before making the last statement. "In that case, we have a wedding to plan"
THE END
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