WITH YOU, WITHOUT YOU

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, event, locales, and incidents, are either the product of the authors imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

P.S. I am now in the process of learning how to properly write a story. Bear with me if some or almost all of my words, sentences, and grammar here are erroneous. Thank you! 📸

Just human!😁😉

Incidentally, the university schools, clubs and correspondence mentioned here in this story are not associated with any particular group or organization.

*abe_arte🌼*

Paano mo nga ba malalaman kung kailan darating ang para sa'yo?
At higit pa... paano kung dumaan lang pala siya, hindi man lang nagtagal sa'yo?

The truth is... you won't know. You never really do.

No one gets a warning. Walang paalala. Walang pahiwatig. Love arrives quietly, like a stranger brushing past you in a crowd. Sometimes, it lingers. Sometimes, it just leaves. And maybe that's what makes it terrifying. Yung hindi mo hawak. Yung kahit anong pilit mong intindihin, hindi mo talaga maintindihan.

But in that very uncertainty, maybe there's something worth holding onto.
Because life... life always gives second chances. Kung handa ka lang ulit masaktan. Kung handa ka lang ulit maniwala.

And when that something new finally comes, maybe, just maybe, the bravest thing you can ever do is try.

"The more you hold on to the past... the more it hurts."

We don't always notice love when it arrives. Minsan, dahan-dahan lang siyang sumusulpot. Parang araw na unti-unting sumisilip sa ulap. Other times, it crashes into you. Sudden. Unexpected. Like a wave too strong, too wild to contain.

Pero gano'n din kabilis kung paano ito mawala. One moment it's there... The next? You're left wondering if it was ever real.

Or maybe... it still is. Even in silence.
Even in goodbye.

Love. Such a small word. Pero ang bigat-bigat sa puso. For others, it's just a feeling. But for people like me? It's everything. Every reason behind every decision. Every heartbeat behind every smile. Every tear behind every goodbye.

Imagine a world without love. Parang ang lamig. Parang ang lungkot. Parang walang saysay.

But they say, love never really leaves.
It stays. In laughter, in the softest memories, in people who once made you feel alive. Nakatago lang... pero nando'n pa rin.

And yet, even with all that...

Will love really last?

Kaya ba talaga nito ang lahat? Can it cross time... distance... fate?

I've always believed... Love is not something you search for. Ito ang hahanap sa'yo. Kaya naman naghintay ako. Nagtiwala. At umasa.

Because that's what I've always done, believe in destiny. That maybe, somehow, fate will take me to where I'm meant to be. To who I'm meant to be with.

But now, as I stand here... At this fragile moment, between holding on and letting go...

One question refuses to leave me...

Hanggang saan nga ba ako kayang dalhin ng tadhana?

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"Ate?" Isang mahinahon at marahan na tinig.