Love and Beloved

Love and Beloved

By: Joanne Christine Mocay

            Few days from now will be Valentine’s Day- a day connoted to love and romance. For me, Valentine’s Day is not just a time to prepare for a date and gift giving but it is a time to remember the sweet memories of lovers on those past years and how it started.

            It was late in the afternoon of February 14, 2012 when I was on my biology class and my instructor was lecturing about sources particularly citing of sources on the internet when researching or making an assignment. Meanwhile, a knock on the door echoed on the four sides of the room. When our instructor opened the door, I cannot explain my feelings because whom I saw was my suitor holding three red roses. Our teacher asked who he was looking for and he uttered my first name. I don’t know how I feel that time but honestly, I was slightly irritated and shy because I don’t expect that to happen. But there’s a feeling I cannot explain- my heart beats so fast. Our teacher asked who was that he was looking for (he doesn’t recognize me because he knows me by my second name and not the first). My classmates looked at me and say, uyyyy..I bow down because my face was blushing and my ears got hotter. Our teacher smiled and my seatmates teased me.

            My suitor went to the line where I am seated and gave me the flowers. At first, I doubt because of mixed emotions whether to accept it or not but in the end, I accepted it. Just imagine yourself when you’re in my situation that time, maybe you will feel the same too.

            It was already late in the evening on the same day when he was accompanying me home.  I gave him a small bookmark which I already made few days before Valentine’s Day. Before that story of mine came into action, I’ve already decided to answer him on February 14 which was Valentine’s Day without me knowing that something memorable will happen- him giving roses to me in the classroom.

            Maybe you are wondering what was written on that bookmark, it was my answer to him. Yes, finally after three months of courting, I answered him. As he read those words written on it, his lips begun to curve and he asked me for a hug. And from that day on, we are considered as couples. This coming February 14, 2014 would be our second anniversary as lovers and what I learned on those past years of being committed was, “When you love, expect yourself to be hurt and to cry because those are parts of it, without it you will never see how strong and steadfast you are.” Let us reflect from the line of Bride for Rent, one of the best movies of the year, which says, “Love and Beloved.”