Chapter 974: Two women (1/2)
He pretended not to hear and she pretended that he was asleep. She wanted all of his love. It is a reasonable claim to make for lovers.
But, one part of his heart has always been on Katarina. The connection between him and Katarina is of magical nature. It is unlike the feeling he felt for Sofia.
Sofia….is a person who he had known. Someone he had known out of familiarity. His first love that he could not realize when he was in high school
There is a sense of nostalgia, and a connection between him and those past moments. Their meeting was a series of coincidences that piled up and become fate.
Familiarity that breeds affection. Affection that birthed love. And before long, naturally he fell in love with her, even without meaning to
Loneliness. Familiarity. Affection. All of these affect his feeling toward her until it is what it is today.
Katarina on the other hand, is like those encounters in some romantic stories.
He met her trapped inside an ice cave and the moment they look at each other eyes, something in their hearts sparked.
And both of their hearts wanted each other, the moment their eyes meet each other.
If they never met before, then it would be fine.
But once they met each other, they could not withstand being apart each other, like it never knew how much it needed the other before that moment.
Like fireworks.
Three days. That is all it took for him to fall in love with her and her with him. If this is not magical, then what is?
They have some similarities. But they also have a lot of differences. But this differences did not push them away from each other.
Instead, it pulls them even closer. This kind of love…he had never ever thought he could experience it
What do you call this love that started with one look?
What do you call this kind of love that when you look at each other, everything falls away, fade into obscurity, and only you and her exist in that time and space?
When they look at each other, even if the world is falling apart, they feel that it would be alright as long as they have each other
When they meet each other, it was like there is a feeling that all this time, they were waiting to meet each other
To love someone that loves him back. Is there no greater happiness then this?
This kind of love…. what kind of love is it?
And he could not just turn it on and off as he likes.
But, that is what she asks of him.
One day...she said…One day, he had to make a choice. He just did not know that one day….is today.
She could not be hurt again. That is what she said. She once felt how painful it is to see the person she loves, love another person.
Azief know her story. In all of its gory details. It would be a lie if he said he did not feel jealous.
Because unlike Sofia, Azief was a big ball of depressing air in the past. He never felt that he was worthy of anyone.
Everyone around him seems to move forward.
He is the only one that look like he sat in the same place. And as years passes, it even appears that he regressed.
He did not date any woman because of this inferiority complex. In the life before the Fall, he did not want to be responsible for another person because he knew he could not keep up to the task
Azief wanted to be rich in the past.
Because he felt how it is to live a life of poverty. He wanted to love. But he does not want the person he loves to live in suffering with him
No one could understand this until they themselves live a life of poverty. Until you had to begged your friend for money so you could eat for the day.
Azief wanted to be rich because only then he could make sure that the person he loved would live a good life. Azief did not want to love someone and make that person miserable by loving him.
So, Azief had never had any experience before meeting and dating Sofia. And he knows now. That love is not that simple. And it is not easy.
Sofia is someone that he just couldn't let go. Was it fate that they met each other in that mall? Was it fate that they stay together?
Or was it simply his stubbornness that keep this fate intact?