END UP TO YOU

Chapter 4

If men are playful, so are women. Because if everyone wants to do it it’s made by their choice and destiny that they hurt other people. Sometimes they can't stop hurting someone even if they don't want to. They are in a world where relationships are too messy, loving someone who can't be loved. Being loved today by someone but tomorrow the feeling is gone. Happiness flows and problems will follow. Right love, at the wrong time. It's a mess like walking somewhere without proper direction.

A few minutes later they finished their meal and dessert was the last thing they ate. From time to time she caught Rogel looking at her but she just smiled at him.

Because while he was with her for a few hours, she felt better and all of her bad thoughts were blown by the wind from her mind. After they ate, Rogel called the waiter to settle their bill. After that, they left the restaurant together. The two of them were already walking toward a white car parked ahead.

"Is it okay if we walk around for a while? I don't want to go home. The night is young." Rogel said.

"Sure. No problem with me," Floriza replied.

Rogel opened the car door for her to go inside. After a few minutes, he followed and started the car engine. While they were traveling along the highway, Floriza felt cold all over her body. She kept checking her phone for Miss Tabitha to call but it only took a few minutes. she didn't even receive a single message. So her boss was really serious when she said that she would take care of Rogel and send him away. She saw the car stop at the park. Rogel came out first and opened the door for her. When Floriza came out, she breathed in the fresh air and looked around. This place is nice and she saw the beautiful fountains that can be seen in the middle of the square, if she hadn't agreed to her boss's request for a favor she wouldn't have seen this scenery. There were different colors of lights surrounding the entire area that gave light to it and she saw couples talking on each bench that was placed in the whole place which made Floriza feel jealous a little. She smiled bitterly as she had just experienced the feeling of relief in her entire life just this once. Because she is so focused on her work, she has forgotten to think that there are other good things to do besides work. She didn't realize that Rogel was standing next to her while looking around as she do earlier.

"Did now, you just come to this place?" Rogel asked.

"Why did you ask?" Floriza answered.

"It's too obvious from the way you look at it, you are like a child who felt amazed by such a sight," Rogel said laughing.

Floriza just bowed in shame.

"I'm too busy with work so I don't get the chance to go to this kind of place." Florida's defense.

"I'm also very busy at work, but I will take time for myself to unwind. So from time to time, we will put aside our busyness at work to allow ourselves to rest." Rogel said.

He walked into the square first with his two hands placed under his jag pants. While Floriza was just following behind him but he suddenly stopped so that the two of them were walking in the same direction. And they stopped where the dancing fountain was.

Floriza was amazed when she saw it up close - there were many lights of different colors on the side to give light to the emerging water. She checked her phone and saw that it was nine o'clock at night and she didn't even realize the time. And he saw that Rogel was too comfortable to be with her so she did not rush home. Even she feels the same way as if she is out of the real world far from the world she lives in.

As the night deepened, the number of people coming to the square increased and she just saw that there were food vendors all over the place and that each owner was too busy to entertain customers. Families enjoying a meal, friends, and couples. And she saw that Rogel's attention was focused on the couple in front of them who were caressing as if they didn't care about the people passing by them and turning their heads.

"Do you think those couple's relationship will last?" Rogel asked while looking at the couple hugging and kissing in front of them.

"I can't say because they don't hold the destiny," Floriza answered sparingly.

"For me, they won't last long. Because the duration of a relationship cannot be measured with those who caress too much in a public place without even allowing themselves to do something like that with just the two of them. Sometimes some people are showy in public so you can make someone feel how much you love them, but it's disrespectful if you do something like that." Rogel said.

Floriza nodded because she agreed with what Rogel said. You don't have to be that sweet to feel love for each other.

"But you can see they love each other too much, right?" Floriza said.

Rogel shook his head.

"Those two will separate tomorrow," Rogel answered in a light tone that was not bitter.

It's just… she was too open-minded about things. Even she knows the trend when it comes to love, even though she has never experienced love. Her heart has become a stone to the people who passed by because of the treatment of her father and especially her stepmother with whom she lived for several years. She can't say she’s abnormal because she never felt love for a man or even had special feelings. Maybe someone hasn't been born yet or someone will come who will break the wall she put on herself or melt her ice-like heart.

"You seem too sure that those two will break up? They are sweet to each other so I know they will last a long time. And who knows, maybe they are destined for each other." Floriza said looking at Rogel.

"Yes. But why am I interfering in the relationship of others if I can't find my own forever?" replied Rogel, and burst into laughter.

Floriza just burst out laughing too and she and Rogel looked at each other and laughed out loud at the same time. She stopped for a moment to realize that her whole life she only now felt that she was truly happy. Even now she heard his voice and how he laughed. There was a lump in her throat- and she felt a deep sadness. She realized a lot when she was with this man.

She tries to bury herself in the mire of sadness when she can lift it in the waves of happiness. She is happy now and sad at the same time because the loss she feels comes from someone she just met, whom she has been asking her father for a long time to give her, the only family she has but instead, she takes care of her and accompanies her in hardships and comforts.

He chose to leave her and find his happiness in other people and not in his flesh and blood. But no matter how many times she was alone, she was not afraid, she was strong enough to live a normal life with nothing going through. And she is sure that the day will come when she will find and come into her life a man like the one who is next to her and the one who is in front of her. She didn't feel jealous of even one of the women who were lucky enough to have a man who would truly love them since she knew that there is a right time and the right person for everything.

"Are you single?" Rogel asked out of nowhere.

"Yes. Is there anything wrong with being single?" Floriza answered.

Rogel looked at her laughing.

"I'm not telling you that being single is a sin. That's the best way and decision ever. I used to have the same mindset that it's better to be single. Less hassle, fewer quarrels, and fewer mistakes. But as time went on, I realized a lot that it's not good to be single until old age. Because not everyone with this face is blessed with luck in love." Rogel said.

"Why?"

"Women won't approach me. As you can see some rich bachelors these days have many women chasing them. They are always featured in tabloids with different women. But I didn't join that group." laughed Rogel's answer.

"Why? Does it add good looks to those men chased by women?" asked Floriza.

"Sort of. That means they're too attractive for me to have." Rogel answered shaking his head.

"That's why we make mistakes and stumble because we rush things too much. It doesn't mean that you're not attractive so that you're not being chased, maybe the woman for you hasn't come yet, so just relax and be patient. Let fate do the job for you." Floriza said.