Chapter 324 - Be my girlfriend, Love... (1/2)

Both of them had a quick eye lock which were glistening brightly with the lights illuminating from the candles. Still looking at her beautiful face, Reuben slowly kneeled down in front of her before taking her hands in her…

Veronica was momentarily stupefied with Reuben's sudden action. Her beautiful doe like dark brown eyes which were expressing her excitement till now, had widened like a big saucer..

However her trance got broken when she felt a light squeeze under her palm. Reuben fondled her palm a little to bring her back to the world when he noticed that...even though her body was there but her mind had been flying to somewhere else...

After she gave her attention back to Reuben, he smiled at her and said, ”Yeah.. I'm calling you Ica now. And I never called you with this name because I wasn't sure if you'd like me to call you by this name. And one more reason was…

I thought that giving you different name from others would be not much acceptable as we were nothing more than simple friends. I really tried to suppress my true feelings for you but now I can't anymore…”

”What are you talking about?” Veronica asked in almost a whisper.

Reuben immediately placed his index finger on her lips to stop her from talking more and said, ”Shhhh!! No more questions. Let me finish first and then you can decide if I deserve to call you Ica or not…”

Veronica didn't say anything but just kept looking at his eyes which was a signal for Reuben to continue with his confession.

Taking a deep breath while closing his eyes, Reuben finally calmed all his nervous veins and stared directly into Veronica's confused yet curious eyes...

Still kneeling on the ground, he started speaking out all of his pending emotions in his heart, ”Ica… Do you know when I first saw you twenty years ago…you were only one month old that time and so much little like a doll…

When I lightly pinched your cheeks, instead of crying like other child, you gave me a cute toothless smile. And my little two years self decided to protect you right from that moment onwards. Though I don't know from where I got the confidence in that small age.”

Veronica chuckled remembering the moment when she gave him her first smile.

Yes..!!!

She remembered that special day...

But not from her childhood memories. She saw the video clip which her father had recorded secretly.

Not only that single moment but each and every little things like her first word, her crawl, her walk, her playing with friends…everything was recorded by her father as for Nr. Lopez, his daughter was his everything...

Reuben grinned seeing her smile and continued, ”After that, years passed by. Our bond got stronger with our small bickering and funny fights. But still I didn't forget the promise that I did to myself about protecting you…