NOTE: This is the last part of my ‘Ride’ short story series. For best the reading experience, please read Ride and Second Ride. ❤
I am ashamed of myself while he’s laughing his heart out.
This is always the scenario when our friends, our families and even our little kids recalled that fateful second ride.
The tale of that beautiful woman on his shoulder, apparently a complete stranger to him, has been a laughing matter for him, a shameful scene for me and a hit plot twist for our friends and family.
He never saw me on that day, and even the next Monday and even the next month.
Our second ride has been our last ride together.
As days became weeks and weeks became months, I have lost all hopes for a part three for our bus-inspired-love-story. I erased my fantasies. I made myself believe that he’s no way my soul mate. I tried to forget him and that girl on his shoulder.
It was a bright Saturday morning when fate surprised me in no way I have imagined.
I saw him…
in front of my house…
talking to my Dad! My Dad! Like my scary-looking Dad!
My heart jumped out, my eyes went wide when I realized that he is indeed in front of my house…
with a bouquet of flowers.
I have no idea, until now, how he knew my address. He said its a beautiful secret he will kept until his last breath.
But his courage to ask my Dad for permission to court me on their first meeting surely sealed his seat in my heart.
It took him a year for me to said yes.
It took him another three years for me to be his fiancee.
It took us a year to prepare for our weeding.
It took us two kids to give our lives’ new meaning.
And it took us a bumpy yet full-of-love
two-decade ride on marriage
to somehow prove…
that our story has
no ending.
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Photo credit: Favim
Whew! 😀
So that was it! 😀
I hope I didn’t fail you guys, Belinda, Mandi, Pancake Bunnykins, Christopher, Dajena, Judy, Mel, Annie, Jacq, Maria and of course Fun! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 🙂
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This is awesome!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 I love it, love it, love it! ❤️❤️❤️ Beautiful, witty and romantic! 😍
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OH WAIT! Why my reply was not published!!! That’s why you thought I somehow missed it. 😦 Haisssttt..
Nonetheless, THANK YOU! THANK YOU so much my dearest, Fun! I hope I did not let you down? 😀
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Oh! Why WordPress like to do funny stuff to our comments. At least this time round, they didn’t mark me as spam! They marked me twice 😅
I should thank you for continuing the story for us! 😄 You did a wonderful job! Don’t worry, my dearest Rosema! ☺️
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HAHAHA! Things are really really getting weird in our neighborhood, eh? 😀
You will never run out of words that will surely touch my heart, Fun! 😀
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The feelings are mutual, my dear. 😍
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YAY! 😀
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Cute ending. I like how the story didn’t just end. I like how you showed their future. It makes it more real and more hopeful. The bus ride was only the beginning. Great series!
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Thank you, Mandi! 🙂 I hope it is not too cheesy? I am avoiding to be overly sweet, eh? I hope I did?
Thanks again! 🙂 This will not be a series, without your vote of confidence! 🙂
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Yes. It is excellent. Very succinct and beautiful at the same time. I don’t think you have to worry about being to cheesy.
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Aww. Thank you! 🙂 Your words meant a lot to me, Mandi! 🙂
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what a beautiful heartwarming ending! I want that kind of ending! Maybe I need to ride a bus or get my dad a scary make-over 😉 (My dad looks more like an absent-minded Santa; he’s a loveable nag).
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Haha! Thank you, Mel! I believe a ride on a bus is worth giving a chance! 😀 (You’ll never know!)
And your description of your dad made me chuckle! 😀 I bet he’s so loveable! 😀 But maybe he’s not when he’s in front of your suitor! 😀
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I don’t know; it’s not happened yet. I’ll have to wait and see 🙂 you’re welcome 🙂
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Ha! I bet he will become someone else when that happens, because you are his princess! 😀
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aw you are too sweet! We’ll have to wait and see. 🙂
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YAY! 😀 (I hope to get updates once it started? 😀 😀 :D)
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You will; I have to meet him first 🙂
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Hmmm. Who ever he is, I hope he’ll love you well. 🙂
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That’s a requirement! 😀
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HAHA! Definitely, Mel!
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Love the optimistic end of this story!! Not disappointing at all! Yay! 😀
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Thank you, Dajena! I am quite unsure if this is a bit too sweet?
I somehow thought of writing a tragic ending, honestly. HAHa
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Either way, it would have been done perfectly well by you 🙂
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Awww. You just melt my heart, Dajena! 😀
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😀 😀 you are welcome sweet Rosema!
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A delightful bus-ride story for us all. Enough highs and lows to keep it real. Enough lows to make the ending-beginning more satisfying (though it would be satisfying, anyway). Yay for her. Yay for you! Thanks for making the series!
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Thank YOU for voting for a second part! I really have no plans to make this a series, but because of your vote of confidence, I just did! 🙂
So thank you!!! ❤
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Awwee… Now I really, really, really, really want to ride a bus despite my road-sickness! It’s a lovely story, Rosema. And like what I’ve asked the first time, are you sure this isn’t a real love story? It’s so sweet, I’m so jealous! 😀 ❤
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No! It really isn’t! This is just a mere product of my hopeless-romantic mind! 😀
Haha! Ride a bus, now! You never know! 😀 ❤
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It’s such a beautiful love story. You know what? I just might. Who knows, I might turn your romantic imagination into reality. YAY! 😀 😀
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YAY!!! If that happens, if that really really happens, I hope to have the exclusive right to publish you full-length love story!!! 😀
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Awww romance is surely in the air!! What a wonderful story, my sweet Rosema! ☺️❤️😘
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Yay! Thank you, dear Annie.
What are your thoughts on my not revealing of how he managed to know her address. You think it’s okay?
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I think so. Leave us wondering 😀 A little mystery is good 🙂
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YAY! Great to hear that! My dearest is still bothering me to know how the man in the story knew the girl’s address. He cannot move on! HAHA
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Haha great twist! I like the ending. ❤ I thought he was taken lol.
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Thank you! 🙂 I hope it isn’t too cheesy. 😀
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No it’s not. It’s perfect! Hehe. Akala ko nga gf nya ung girl tapos iiwan nya para sa new girl. Haha. Kaya I like the twist. At least, nobody got hurt. Lol
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HAHA! Tama ka, no one was hurt! 😀 Thank you, dear!
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