My Guardian Angel (The Dust of Love)
Chaptre 41. Black and Blue
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I will fight
(I will fight)
I will fight for you
(I will fight for you)
I always do until my heart
(I always do it until
Is black and blue
(My heart is battered)
Ethan Sanchez grabs Arumi's left hand and puts it on his shoulder while his right hand goes to Arumi's shoulder blade. One subtle jolt of Arumi had been very close to his heart, leaving little room for Arumi to breathe. They started to dance.
And I will stay
(I will stay)
I will stay with you
(I will stay with you)
We'll make it to the other side
(We'll make it to the other side)
Like lovers do
(As lovers do)
I'll reach my hands out in the dark
(I will stretch out my hand in the dark)
And wait for yours to interlock
(And waiting for you to hold it)
I'll wait for you
(I'll be waiting for you)
Eight steps as Ethan Sanchez closed his eyes, fusing them together. No matter the surroundings, it was as if the restaurant only left the two of them.
While the music plays the melody of the unyielding song, the lips are locked tightly just carried away by the current, let the soft strains comfort the tired soul. The singer's clear voice drowned two heartbroken people.
"Mrs Sanchez will scratch my handsome face with garfu, Arumi Chavez. Dandia Sanchez will fuck me tonight. While I'm dancing with you I have to set up a defense strategy" Ethan Sanchez said.
"I think you're the most ignorant."
"Dandia Sanchez is his teacher. I learned from him. Just look at Dandia's eyes, as if two suns from another galaxy moved there."
"You can defend Ethan until your face is intact. Tell me this is our first and last dance" said Arumi Chavez looking up higher to see Ethan Sanchez.
Arumi's reflex movements unintentionally made their lips meet. Both of them were motionless for a second, equally stunned.
Ethan Sanchez first wakes up immediately slips his hand on the nape of Arumi, pressing precisely because Arumi is whipped taste; between love and pain. This is their first kiss after they've been together.
I'll wait for you
(I'll be waiting for you)
'Cause I'm not givin' up
(Because I didn't give up)
I'm not givin' up, givin' up, no, not yet
(I won't give up, no, haven't given up yet)
When they are separated. Eyes looked at each other, tears welled up in Arumi's eyeballs.
Kiss Miguel Paulo with all the feeling and totality and long duration of undamaged like when Ethan Sanchez touched him short.
The corners of the eyes move. Eventually the tears could not be prevented, flowing down. Ethan Sanchez stroked slowly with his fingers and grabbed Arumi, persuading him to stop sobbing.
"Good news for my mother, but Dandia will be sad. Dandia likes you, Arumi. I love you, Arumi." Ethan's tone of voice is more languishing than a cry.
Even when I'm down to my last breath
(Even when I'm dying until my last breath)
Even when they say there's nothing' left
(Even when they say there's nothing left)
So don't give up on
(So don't give up)
I'm not givin' up
(I'm not giving up)
"Do you remember those moments where we were together?" ethan Sanchez asked after Arumi calmed down.
"There are many" said Arumi moody.
"You're still half-drunk and I'll leave you alone in the flat because there's nothing I can call. I want to get off my feet, you beg me, 'Ethan don't go'!" ethan replicates Arumi Chavez's crybaby to Arumi's smile even if only a little.
Arumi Chavez looks back at Ethan Sanchez. He recalls the incident, in which Ethan Sanchez disguised himself as a cafe employee, sending orders to the studio and saving them. If Ethan hadn't come, he might have lost his chastity.
"I . em .., I'm still ashamed to this day" complained Arumi Chavez met red.
"The first time for me to see a girl is naked. Later on, I turned out to have kept my girlfriend's honor."
"I've liked you ever since, Ethan!" arumi Chavez says express more emotion.
"Em .., I remember a girl who didn't want me to leave even though I used harsh words to throw her away. He just kept stalking me. The tail of the eye always captures the shadow of a face lurking from behind the library bookshelf, the corner of the basketball court, in the lab room even from behind the locker in the sports locker room. This girl tailed me when I came to school and after school."
"I'm crazy about my senior!"
"I'm not interested in you, really. You are very arrogant, arrogant, careless, without performance is also inversely proportional to Marya. You're not on the dream girl list. In my mind, you are only the reincarnation of the Goddess of Foolishness."
"Unfortunately, I'm like that, Ethan."
"Then, I thought, what if he's stupid? She was just an exaggeratedly beautiful, a gift that was not given to the faces of smart girls. It was as if the Goddess of Wisdom was so angry at someone so smart that cursing him became so stupid but felt too evil to make him ugly. I'm really in love with her."
Repeating the confession in the restaurant turned sour.
Even when nobody else believes
(Even when no one believes)
I'm not goin' down that easy
(I won't get down easily)
So don't give up on me
(So don't give up on me)
And I will hold
(And I'll hold on)
I'll hold onto you
(I'll hold your hand)
No matter what this world'll throw
(It doesn't matter what the world throws up)
It won't shake me loose
(That won't let me off)
"Something when some teenager comes to the cafe and holds your hand, I'm so upset."
"Our client is king. You hold my hand and say, 'Miss Arumi is my girlfriend!'"
"I think I'm going crazy" Ethan Sanchez said with a faint smile.
"When that time, I was hoping that one real time you'd be my girlfriend."
"You're obeyed. We were dating, it went fast. You intentionally make me jealous. You keep teasing Archilles Lucca. I was thinking how long .., Archilles will stand firm against your behavior. I persisted. However, Archilles Lucca seemed willing to die for you. That man's attitude towards you provoked something in me to be forthright, prompting me to be honest with myself. I saw me turn stupid from building a sturdy fortress of my own feelings. When the wall came down, I was infatuated with you in more quantities than you were infatuated with me."
Arumi Chavez in front of Ethan, their legs constantly moving Arumi just stared at Ethan Sanchez.
"I realized you weren't confident with me. Then, where's my fault? I just happened to be born with many blessings."
"Ethan ..., you ..., too perfect for a girl like me."
The song had long stopped but they still continued to dance, talking from forehead to forehead to make their friends watch the show.
Dandia was like the photographer of a wedding reception, recording a video ignoring the flat face of Mrs Sanchez. The girl had even turned her head over from sitting, standing, leaning to the right, to the left to get a good angle.
"If perfection is coupled with perfection, where is it good that they look Arumi? It will only create selfishness and win on its own. Are relationships complementary?"
"At least a girl who doesn't stretch too far from you. I'm out of range. I seem to force myself to reach your standards."
"Did I sue you that way?" ethan Sanchez doesn't like it.
"No, I don't know how this happened?"
"I see what you mean, Arumi. I can't go down to the bottom row and be with you because I'm going to destroy my mother's hard work. Anyway, my destiny is somehow not there. You can't go up to my place because beyond your means, you can't. Then, why are we wasting energy?! Can you just let it run like a stream of river water? We're not getting married tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, even in five years."
"I could be a bad influence on you, if you can't curb how you feel about me!"
"All right," nodded Ethan Sanchez quickly. "I'll control myself. I'm guilty of breaking the rules I made myself."
They finally stopped. Ethan Sanchez, circle his hands around Arumi's waist.
"Will you think back about us while I reassure Mrs Sanchez?"
"Ethane ...."
"I can't blame my mother. I saw a lot of injuries. Even though I love you so much, I can't leave my family. I'm sure, in my position, you'll do the same. But that doesn't mean we sacrifice our feelings. I really don't like the conditions, where, I have to choose to keep the feelings of the people I care about. That to me is really unfair. We'll just date and enjoy our youth."
"Ethane ...."
"Don't care about the word world as long as you don't harm others. Do we live to weigh the opinions of others about us? Do we live to impress others?"
"What about my drama?"
"Ethane ...."
Holding Arumi's body, moving closer, kissing Arumi's forehead slowly. This time Arumi couldn't get a touch on her. Spy closed.
"No need to tell me now! We can meet again later. I hope you don't give up on us so easily after making me fall in love with you."
Maybe this relationship doesn't have to spend a season. Does it need to be stopped early just to avoid violent clashes and even disasters, which are even completely unpredictable? Or follow Ethan Sanchez's beliefs?
Arumi softened, he nodded. He'll come back home, get in bed, close his eyes and think again.
"We'll have dinner last night and I'll take you home. How's it?" ask Ethan Sanchez. "Or still want to be here?"
"I'm pretty full, Ethan. Too tired to enjoy a party."
"All right, let's go!"
Ethan Sanchez takes Arumi Chavez, goes to Mrs Sanchez's place.
"Mom ..., I'm sorry I can't be with ...."
"Go!" cut off Dandia Sanchez before Ethan Sanchez's speech is done. "I'm going home with Mom" added Dandia Sanchez.
Ethan Sanchez squinted at his suspicious sister.
"Just calm down, I'm not asking for any extra charges. This one is free!"
"Mom?!" Ethan Sanchez wants Mrs Sanchez's support. "Can?" Request permission.
Arumi Chavez looked at Ethan Sanchez, noting in his mind, how to speak well and correctly to your mother even though you are disappointed and angry, do not like the authoritarian attitude of your mother; examples are enviable.
Archilles Lucca once remembered Arumi for his bad attitude towards his mother, being ignored, feeling the Archilles were overreacting. Now, Arumi felt that her attitude had been brutal.
"Alright, Ethan. I'll be with Dandia. Please don't wander off with someone's daughter, forget yourself and then stay together, Ethan Sanchez. I'll wait for you to come home." Mrs Sanchez has warned.
"Mom?!"
"Am I wrong? Don't ignore what I'm saying. The love you have for each other is strong. It's like a big tart. There is passion and logic in it. One big piece of passion the rest a small piece of logic. You are tempted by large pieces, do not stop chewing because of amazement at their delicacy. Love sometimes makes us forget things, Ethan."
"Mom, I'm not going to do anything to cause fatal damage to my future too Arumi. I can't hurt your heart and Miss Salsa."
Ethan Sanchez looked at his mother. One, two, three seconds, want understanding.
"God takes care of you always, Ethan," replied Mrs Sanchez in prayer. Even if Mrs Sanchez understands it does not hide disappointment. However, there was nothing that could be done except to lower the blessing for his son.
"Find your identity!" tadah Dandia is getting nosy.
"What do you want?"
"Even if I support you, I don't want anything bad to happen to you and Miss Arumi. You must leave your identity. We never know, when the devil teases you in the middle of the street as soon as you pass in front of the motel and the gloomy lights of a suite look tempting to visit."
"Eh, this girl! How old are you, boy?! You read adult comics?"
"Ooopss, am I not Mom?" Dandia turned to Mrs Sanchez for support.
"Dandia, don't bother your sister!"
"All right, see you, Miss Arumi. Oh yeah, I invited you to come to our house this weekend for dinner" Dandia said expectantly.
"Dandie?!" madam Sanchez's reprimand turned sharply to her daughter, not liking Dandia's rash attitude.
"Didn't Mom invite Sarah, and let me invite my friend? I will invite Miss Arumi," replied Dandia casually.
Mrs Sanchez is breathing heavily. "Come if you might not be busy."
"I'm sorry, Mrs Sanchez. Thank you for inviting me," said Arumi Chavez, pretending to not feel the sharp gaze of Mrs Sanchez. "I'll be in Paris for three days this weekend. I'll stop by another day."
Mrs Sanchez was easily relieved.
"Owh, say hello to Eiffel yes, say I am in love with him, so much love," Dandia beamed.
Arumi Chavez ties feelings personally with Dandia from the way they share their views.
"Dandia ..., always be healthy, yes!" arumi Chavez said sincerely. "I have to get home!"
"Be careful on the road!"
Pamitan to friends, then to Sarah and Sarah's family, Arumi was escorted out in a crowd.
"Young Miss, I'm sorry about that. Our words must have hurt you." Donald Harrison takes Arumi Chavez. Tania Lim Harrison next to her husband, looks down because it keeps remembering the ugliness of his attitude.
"Oh, I'm so embarrassed, Miss Arumi. Very sorry."
Arumi Chavez shook his head, "Can we forget what happened today? We can start a new relationship. I'm so envious, Miss Sarah has you both as wise and humble parents."
"Oh, look at his attitude, Donald! Very sweet. Can we take a picture together? I'll put your picture on the wall of our restaurant."
Arumi nodded vigorously, standing in the middle with Sarah flanked by Donald and Tania Harrison, took a photo, blotting out the wounds left behind sweet memories.
"Once you stop by, I'll be happy to prepare a rice cake for you. You need to try it, Miss."
"Mom, Miss Arumi may not like the taste of rice cakes."
"Oh, try it!"
"All right, Mrs Harrison. I'll come by here one time. I'm leaving, have a nice night."
"See you, Arumi. Da da da!" tassel Sarah Jessica.
Arumi Chavez waved back. Light footsteps approach the patiently waiting Ethan Sanchez.
"Do we just order a taxi? You may be sleepy on the motor."
Arumi shakes. "I love riding the bike with you."
"Em, no. Let's take a taxi. Your face foresees, what will happen in the next ten minutes."
Fifteen minutes later, a taxi drove through the city night. Arumi Chavez falls asleep on Ethan Sanchez's shoulder.
"Well, what did I say, you went to bed in five minutes. May I pass in your dreams, Arumi Chavez?"
I want to take Arumi to the clock tower. There the view of the city, the bridge and the lamlu-lamps are very beautiful and romantic. However, Arumi was already sound.
Taxi stops at the spacious grounds of Arumi's house. Ethan Sanchez has no choice but to carry Arumi.
"This girl was very dangerous when she fell asleep."
Mrs Salsa Diomanta was pacing back and forth waiting. Relieved to see the arrival of Ethan Sanchez.
"Good night, Miss Salsa."
"Ethan ..., good to see you. Oh, did Arumi drink and get drunk?" ask Mrs Salsa overthinking.
"No, Mistress. Arumi's just too tired."
"Ethan?!" Marya Corazon appears in the living room, Elgio Durante behind his wife.
"Darling, are you here?" hello Ethan Sanchez. "You look really pretty tonight" added Ethan Sanchez.
"See him! Tempting my wife while my sister-in-law is in her arms." Elgio Durante clucking.
"Mrs Salsa, where will I take Arumi? He's gaining weight by the minute."
Salsa Diomanta doesn't stop smiling.
"Arumi's room is upstairs, Ethan," said Marya Corazon.
"I'll take Arumi upstairs" Elgio Durante teased, "If you allow it," added Elgio, glad to see Ethan's dislike.
"I can do it myself!"
"You gave Arumi k3r4s?"
"Am I a typical b3j4t guy, Elgio Durante?" sergeant Ethan Sanchez and Elgio Durante can't stand the tickle.
"Oh, Ethan's gonna have trouble going upstairs. I'm sorry Arumi bothered you, Ethan. This girl, my God," complained Miss Salsa before Ethan went to his own room.
Arumi Chavez was laid in bed. Ethan's sweet demeanor really fascinates Mrs Salsa.
"Em, Madam, Arumi hasn't had dinner yet. I think he's gonna starve in the middle of the night."
"I'll take care of it, Ethan. Thank you very much."
Get Ethan Sanchez back.
"I'm going straight home, ma'am. Taxi's waiting. Besides, my mom won't sleep until I get home" Ethan Sanchez said, adding that she was amazed.
"All right, Ethan."
"No tea yet?" haggio Durante.
"More of the time, Elgio," said Ethan Sanchez. They are not hostile but not close. "Bye bye, honey. See you tomorrow at school." Give Marya a long-distance kiss.
"Ethan ..., can we talk for a minute?" salsa Diomanta asked suddenly, her face eagerly anxious.
Ethan Sanchez looked at Mrs Salsa, wondering. Someone came from the outside, it was Archilles Lucca.
"Yes, Madam ..., please!"
"Let's sit!"
"Mrs ...."
"Archilles ...," said Marya Corazon, smiling kindly.
"Archilles, have you returned?" Elgio Durante is awake.
Signal in the direction of the sign that serious talks will be held. Archilles nodded back at Elgio Durante and greeted Ethan Sanchez before trailing behind Elgio Durante to the steps leading to the family library.
"Ethan ..., I have high hopes for you."
"Mrs ..., what do you want?"
"It's about Arumi. I really want you for my daughter. It's just you, the only man that's most appropriate for Arumi."
Although it was quite slow, both Elgio Durante and Archilles Lucca could hear the request. Elgio Durante even stopped climbing the stairs, looking down, looking half a turn at Archilles Lucca which automatically stayed in place.
"Have you heard that, Archilles Lucca?" elgio Durante almost whispered. "My parents look like they want to keep Ethan Sanchez here tonight and marry Arumi Chavez to Ethan after sunrise tomorrow morning."
Archilles Lucca nodded, "Yes, sir. I heard." Climb the stairs again follow Elgio Durante. The wounds on his body don't hurt much. There were other wounds deeper piercing.
And ....
You know ..., what is the saddest of all these?! Archilles thought it was easy to slash and hurt.
Archilles Lucca can't even say that he likes Arumi Chavez because being frank with Miss Arumi will most likely make Miss Arumi confused to face emotional turmoil. Sighing strongly. He had no choice but to continue to step neatly to keep the sadness in the chamber of his heart.
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