Seeing Tisha in that dress under the pleasant moon light, made Yang speechless. Her amber coloured eyes instantly soothed his heart.
Tisha came and sat beside Yang, a few feet away from him, wanting to gaze at the sky.
"Ummmm.... Do you want to take a walk with me?" Yang asked casually while clearing his throat.
"Yes, of course!" Tisha replied with a cheerful, beautiful and bright smile surfacing on her face while her soft cheeks turned red.
Yang was shocked, an arrow of love striking him in the heart. Yang did not even realize what he asked her, the words just came out of his mouth naturally without any conscience.
*"What? Do girls here agree to go to a walk with a stranger so quickly? She did not even think about it. Or... Maybe? Just maybe… she is also interested in me?"* a small seed of hope was planted in Yang's heart.
*"this is not possible, maybe she is just trying to be nice to me"* Yang didn't dare to have any hopes and writes it off as, Tisha being kind to him.
"Well then, shall we take a long walk at the shore so we can introduce each over again? and maybe get to know each other a bit more?" Yang asked Tisha again with a hint of doubt, but hopeful.
*"She wouldn't agree to this right? Since it's a little unfair to people who just met each other."* Yang nervously pondered. Somewhere in his heart, it felt like Tisha also nurtured feelings for him, but he didn't agree with his heart, as he didn't want to get hurt until he found out the truth.
"Um.. of course, we can!" Tisha replies again with the same bright smile resurfacing on her face, as if it's nothing.
*"Is she stupid or she really likes me? She's willing to come with me that far?"* At this point of time, Yang started writing a love story in his head, but he was still unconvinced. 1% of doubtfulness was still alive in his heart.
"Well actually, let's go see the island tomorrow from morning to evening. Tell your sister that you can't be at home all day. Does that work? Can you do that?" Yang asked again trying to clear his doubts.
Yang really wanted to know what Tisha was feeling, no girl stayed out all day with a guy she has never met before.
"Sure, That's no problem..." Tisha replied again, with a hint of smile but shyly this time, as if she's telling Yang that she knows why he's asking these questions. And that, she agrees to be with Yang. She too shared his feelings.
Yang jumped out from his seat in shock that Tisha had accepted everything Yang asked for, that too, with a smile. It's like she's happy to do anything if he asks. *"It's really confirmed now , she definitely has feelings for me. If she wants to spend a whole day with me it definitely means she likes me"*. Yang smiled back at Tisha, with an excited and happy face.
He came back to sit beside her, but this time he sat really close to her. There was only an inch of gap between the two. Tisha doesn't seem to mind or be bothered by it.
"You know, my heart always beat without a purpose in my life. I was always lonely without a family. I was arrogant, short-tempered, crook and all kinds of a bad guy. I'm also a jealous type, and I'm selfish but most of all no matter what, I really want to treat my girl as a princess, make her happy and give her the world. I want to make her the happiest girl in the Universe, I will tell her that having her makes me feel like I too, have a family if I'm with her." Yang explained to Tisha.
"Well, she will be the luckiest for sure. I'm not confident about myself at all, and I feel like I'm ugly, that's why I never made any friends and is always hiding behind my sister but I swear, I will never stop loving my husband if he accepts me for who I am." Tisha said to Yang as their eyes meet.
Tisha also liked Yang from the very first time she met him. No one had ever liked her eyes from her childhood, she has been called all kinds of unwishful names. She decided to distanced herself from everyone and always hid beside her sister in front of strangers, but Yang had taken a liking to her eyes when he just met her.
It felt great to have someone who appreciated her, for one thing that everybody hated her for. She also knew that Yang is a soft person inside and he will treat people he loved with respect. And now, on hearing how Yang really feel about her as a family with an intention to marry her, she liked him even more.
Tisha averted her eyes from Yang's and shyly turned away from him, her curls falling over to hide her blushing face.
Tisha's breathing gets heavier with Yang moving closer towards her. She felt his warm chest pressing on her back, feeling his breathe on the back of her neck. Her long black hair tickled Yang's face, along with the cold breeze and he closed his eyes taking in her sweet scent, nose slightly touching her soft skin.
Yang gently caressed her hair to a side and leaned closer. His lower lip grazed Tisha's earlobe, and he whispered in a low husky voice;
"I love you Tisha. Be with me forever" Yang gathered up his courage and confessed to Tisha.
Tisha's face turned more pink upon hearing this. She suddenly shivered and rushed back to her house, her heart is racing fast, upon hearing the magical words from Yang.
The grass under her feet was shining from the moon light as she ran towards her house. Nothing compared to the smile on Yang's face, as he could now finally get to have a family of his own, and Tisha is part of that family.
A new love had blossomed just before the deadly war, where people had a very less chance to make it back home.