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Ron
didn’t appear at our graduation, as the class puzzled over his
whereabouts, when his name was called out by the principal of
the school, and no Ron appeared to respond to the name. I had
bought a golden ring then, hidden inside my pant pocket. I
wanted to tell Katherine about how I felt. I wanted her to
understand my feelings.
We
met after the whole graduation ceremony ended, as we slowly
walked away from the noisy crowds, celebrating their new
freedom, their departure from the years that they’ll miss. “Too
bad our universities are so far away from each other,” I said,
as we walked onto the street. “It would have been cool if we all
went to the same university.”
She
just nodded, as she quietly walked along, her head down, as if
lost in a deep thought. I fumbled with the ring box in my
pocket, a little nervous about the whole confession stuff. “Hey,
Kat…” I began to say, hands shaking a little as I showed her the
black leather box. “I bought you a little graduation gift, I
hope you like it.”
She
looked at me blankly at first, as if she forgot who I was, one
more stranger in the streets of the city. She opened the box and
stared at the ring for a while, as if unsure of what to do with
it. “G-go on, try it on.” I stuttered with nervousness, feeling
a little sweat trickle down my cheeks. “It’ll be a g-great
memento of our friendship, so that everytime you see it, you’ll
remember me and all the good times w-we’ve had together.”
She
continued to look at it a little longer, before she closed the
box and handed it to me. “I’m sorry, Sean, but I can’t accept
it.”
“Why not?” I almost screamed, as she continued walking, not
replying to the question. I saw that this was my last chance to
tell her my feelings, for I knew nothing else to say, or do, to
make her understand them. “I love you, Kat. This is my way of
telling you my devotion, this ring I’m offering, so I can at
least know that you feel something for me. Do you feel something
for me?”
She
looked up at me and smiled, a gentle one, too small to be
noticed by anyone else. “I’m sorry, Sean.” She replied, as she
handed the box back to me. “I just can’t accept it, not like
this.”
That was when I
realized that I had lost her, somehow, the only thing that I
have ever pursued for. We didn’t talk anymore as we departed on
our separate ways, each going away from the other. I still hold
the ring till this day, still unable to let her memory pass
away. |
