Episode 1
One day I woke up because of my mother's cry.
"Elaine wake up! Hurry up, go to school!" Mom shouted.
"Yes, mom!" My response to her was frustrating.
"Hurry up! You might be late at your school!" My mother said.
"Yes, mom! I'm coming!" I answer her. I got up and stretched. I combed my hair after I washed my face and went downstairs.
"Come on and eat here! I cooked your favorite food, Elaine.“ My mother said, smiling already.
"Thank you, mom!" I response happily.
."Let me do the busting. You go, hurry in the school. You might be late." My mama said.
"All right, mom, I'll go now!" I answered .
"Haiissttt! It's my first day at school and I hope I will have a friend here." I talk to myself cheerfully. I heard the sound of a bell.
'Wait, the bell has rung." I said with joy when suddenly someone spoke behind me.
"Hi!" The man greets me.
"hello," I replied.
"I'm Jerrald Degosman. Nice meeting you and you are?" He asked me.
"I'm Elaine Cruz." My answer.
Jerrald was my classmate in almost every subject except Math and English. We always chatted and had lunch breaks together, so here, we started to be friends and later, we became close to each other. I consider him my best friend because of this.
"Elaine, can I take you out?" One day he asked me.
"Huh? Why me?" I said to him surprised.
"Nothing. Can I invite you?" He questioned me.
"When?" I asked him.
"When is your free day?" He asked me cheerfully.
"My free day?" I asked him hesitantly.
"Yes," he replied smiling at me. I thought for a moment.
"This Sunday," I answered him.
"All right. See you on Sunday. I'll pick you up. What time will I pick you up?" Jerrald asked me.
"Around two o'clock, so we can get home early. I have a lot to do at night." I promise him.
"All right. I'll come to pick you. See you." He was happy to promise.
And the day of Sunday came. The day we got Jerrald's agreement to go out.
"Oh, Elaine! You look beautiful in that dressed ah...where are you going? ” My mother asked me with a smile.
"Ah, my classmate and I are going out, mama." I'm hesitant to respond her.
"Do you already have a friend? Girl or boy?" She asks me.
"He's a man, mom." I am anxious to answer her.
"My daughter is already a woman." She smiling at me.
"Mom!" I was disgusted by her teasing.
"Just kidding, my daughter!" She told me.
We heard the doorbell outside.
"Oh! I think that is your friend. He! He!" She excitedly pushed me out to the door while she was behind me.
"Good afternoon, Aling Rosa." Jerrald greeted my mother when he saw her next to me.
"Oh! You're, Jerrald. Good afternoon to you, too. Are you my daugther's date?" Mom asked him.
."Uh, date? Oh, I just invited Elaine, Aling Rosa." He answer. His face blushed.
"Oh, mom. Stop it. Jerrald let's go. All right, mom, we're leaving." I said to mom.
"Oh, Jerrald. I will trust you my daughter. Okay leave early now so that can go back home early. Jerrald, will you please, take care of your friend." Mama
said to Jerrald with a wide smile.
"Yes, Aling Rosa. Don't worry and you can count on me to take care of Elaine. I'll take care of her." Jerrald replied smiling at mama.
"Oh, he's fine. Go on, poor thing. God bless you and keep you." My mother's promise.
"All right, mom." I say goodbye to him.
"Thank you." Jerrald replied and we left.
"Ah, Jerrald where are we going?" I ask.
"We're going where there's a nice view Elaine." Jerrald replied. Jerrald noticed that I seemed anxious.
."I'll take care of you. Don't worry, trust me, ok?" Jerrald flirts with me.
"Ok! I'm sorry Jerrald. This is just the first time I've been out, eh. So I don't know anything about such things." I smiled and told him.
"What?! I know that..that's why I invited you out to have fun. I’ll take care of you, ok? ”Jerrald replied.
"Ok," I replied.
"Trust me, Ok? I got you." Jerrald's promise. I calmed down and smiled with mixed skepticism. I didn't realize that I had fallen asleep in our car.
"Elaine, Wake up. We're here." Said Jerrald while waking me.
"Where are we?" I asked Jerrald.
"We are here in Alta Del Rosa Park."
"Huh! Alta Del Rosa ?! Wow! Really? Are we here?" I was happy to respond to his surprise at me.
"Yes, Elaine we are here today in Alta Del Rosa Park. Did you know that this is one of the most popular and visited by many tourists from different countries? "Jerrald said.
"Yes, of course. It's on the internet. I'm just looking at it because I dream of going to this place someday." I told him.
"Really?! It's right that I planned to take you here. "Jerrald replied.
"Yes and Thank you," I replied.
"Welcome. Let's buy a ticket." Jerrald and I went to the counter to buy a ticket.
We entered the park. Just at the entrance of the park are the beautiful vines and roses creeping on the walls. There is a large fountain in the middle with different lights colors playing with its water. We went in and I was thrilled with what I saw. Gazebos surrounded by roses and surrounded by it. It has a tower, from the stairs it has bermuda grass, vines and different kind of roses. What's more and the whole landscape is always different roses that came from other countries with different colors of it.
It's location is at the tip of the Sierra Rio which is forty-five minutes away from our home. So it was called Alta, meaning high or high Del Rosa, roses.
Jerrald drove me home.
"Thank you so much, Jerrald." I said to him simcerely grateful for his generosity to me. We are in the front soor of our house.
"Come in first and have a snack." I invited him.
"No, thank you. I'm going home. Let's just meet at school tomorrow. Just let your mother know I left." Jerrald said.
"Oh, all right. Let's just meet at school. Thanks again." I said. He turned and left.
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