Heaven's Point of View
"You finally did it, love. Congratulations!" Lawrence congratulates me from skype because he's in France right now to negotiate with his target business partner. I will open my coffee shop tomorrow morning and he won't be there.
"I'm still mad at you, hmp" I said. I'm really mad at him for leaving me, I tell him that I would cry once I don't see him and his face but he still didn't follow me.
"I'm really sorry, my love. I'm just going to bring you a lot of food that's here in France. What do you want?" He said.
I don't have the appetite and don't crave food right now. I just want to see his face, I think our baby also wants to meet her daddy so she didn't crave for anything other than her father's face.
"Baby Apple just want to see her daddy's face, she didn't crave for anything else" I said and put my hand on my belly to rub it.
"I'm really sorry to my baby Apple and to my precious love Heaven" he said with an apologetic face. We talk a lot after that and I don't want to end the call as long as I'm seeing him.
Tomorrow passed by and I had a lot of guests in here. Eli and David are here congratulating me for the opening of the business shop and also congratulating me with the baby going ahead. I'm now six months pregnant so I'm just going to manage this shop for about one month then would hired someone to manage the shop for a while.
"Congratulations too to your marriage!" I said. I didn't attend their wedding ceremony because I'm at my first semester when that happens.
It's been a year before this moment happened, there's a lot of things that happened that I'm thankful for because we are going there. Lawrence's company was the first one to invest here and the second was David and Eli. I gain a lot of fund and want to make sure that this would not go to waste.
"My sister, Heaven! Congratulations!" Alona entered the coffee shop together with Teodore who even brought a huge gift for me. I thanked him and ordered him to just put it outside with all smiles. I don't want to be rude at him anymore as he proves his love for Alona now.
"Where's Lawrence? He should be here at the grand opening of your café?" Eli asked. I pout and with the thought that he wouldn't be here makes me sad. So I ended up crying and they panickedly comforted me.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry. I should've been too careful on choosing the words, you're still pregnant" Eli said when she's comforting me.
"Is he going to cheat with me now? He's not here to my achievement so I think he changed" I said and cry harder. They try to make alibi to console me but I push myself to calm myself down because I'm going to cut the ribbon later.
And it's going to not be fine if I'm cutting the ribbon with sadness on my face. Aunt Lydia also came together with her husband and congratulated me. Later on, I was asked by my hired emcee to cut the ribbon. I happily cut the ribbon and smile for everyone and let them in at the coffee shop.
They are all here but my eyes were still looking for one person but I gave up looking for him because he wouldn't come anymore. I went to the bathroom to pee. I also retouch my make-up because it's coming off.
I went out and I was surprised at the person who's kneeling at the counter table. He was kneeling while staring at me and all I could do was to walk near him with teary-eyes. I don't know what I did in my past life to deserve someone like him, the person who would willing to wait and fight for me even if he's not told to.
"Am I late for your celebration? Anyways even if I'm late, I know that you trust me and wait for me. I promise to always do that so will you marry me, Heaven?" He said and hold the engagement ring in his hand.
"Of course, yes!" I said and kneeled with him. I can't help but to gave up in this precious moment. I think my legs felt a lot of things as my heart did so they gave up and just went on. He still held my hand and placed the ring there.
"I love you" He whispered to me while we're at that scene. "I love you too," I whispered. This is the feeling of being loved and loving someone that I garnered ever since I was young, that I was craving from the people who can't love and didn't deserve to be loved.
After the pregnancy, Apple was a healthy baby girl who's now in her third month. I thanked God that the delivery to her was safe and successful. It was hard but I overcame it like how I overcame the hardships that I had. I am now the one who manages the shop and it has a really good income. I'm planning our wedding as I want to be hands-on in everything.
I don't know what but here I am at the mental institute that my parents were in. I enter the institute and wait for them at the visitor's area. I want them to know that I'm doing well and even if I hardly admit it, I forgive them. There's a lot of lessons that I know because of them and I still thanked them for creating me.
"My precious daughter, Heaven. Alona said that you gave birth to a beautiful daughter named Alona" My mom said smiling when she sat down to the table in front of me.
"I would create a beautiful and lovable place for her where she can't feel anything that I've felt ever since I was a child. I would do everything not to be like you, I won't let anyone harm her the way you make me see how harmful this life is even when I was young. I wouldn't let anyone do bad to her. She would be a precious child that wouldn't push me away because I would treat her good" I started. I can see the tears from their eyes and I can also say that I got teary-eyed on that.
"I would make sure not to be like you when I was a child. I really promised myself not to be like you. And now I fulfil it, I fulfil my dreams and I have now my own accomplishments. I'm still going to thank you for making me the way I am, for making me knew the harmness of my parents at an early age so I knew the right and wrong doings at the early age" I added.
"We're sorry" The only thing that my dad said. I smile at them thinking that this would be the last time that I would see them because I'm going to live through my life thinking that I have no parents that are still living up to now.
"You've been forgiven, mom and dad but I don't want to see you anymore. Let's cut our ties right here and let's not see each other anymore once you go out at this institute. Goodbye" I said and stood up.
I've released the anger and detached them from my life. I'm still going to be who I am even without them.
I went to my sister's graduation after that because she just finished her course Public Administration. She would still pursue her dream to be a Lawyer and I'm going to support her through that.
"Congratulations, my sister Alona" I said and gave her a bouquet of roses. She smile at me and take a picture with me.
"I'm going to still pursue my dream and promise to win the fight for the poor who can't do anything" She said. I nodded and gave her the thumbs up.
And now, my past me would be very proud of how brave and strong she is. She overcame a lot of hardship with the help of right people around her. It may be a hard fight but she endure it very well and I'm proud of her.
I'm going to gladly close that chapter and would look forward for the great chapter of her. I would gladly open the book where all great things would be formed in. And I root and hope for that and I just know that it would happened because I'm with Lawrence.