"Do you believe in everlasting love?" He said and my heart is beating so loud. Why do I feel this feeling?
"I'm sure that you can't answer my question for now, because I guess you didn't feel true love right?" Roggen said.
"Are you telling me that I'm hard to love?" I asked him seriously but he just laughed at me.
"For me no, your are not hard to love." He said seriously then he stared in my eyes seriously. I don't know but I feel strange feeling while he's looking in my eyes.
"That's good, and I don't care if no one wants to love me. I said then I looked to other direction.
"Let's go back to the story of the first lovers in this school that didn't work. University of Santo thomas was originally in the intramuros, Manila." Roggen said.
"Nena is the is the girlfriend of Alejandro. She is pure Filipina but her family was friends of Spanish priest, Spanish officers and big Spanish families. She was working in the school. She is cleaning and organizing the papers and stuffs. Alejandro is a mestiso. His father is a Spanish and her mother is a Filipina. He is in seminary so someday he will became a priest. He is studying in this school.
One day, Alejandro will be late in his class so he is walking faster. Then he hit Nena that's why they fell on the floor and Alejandro accidentally went to top of Nena. They are looking in their eyes. They feel their heart beats so loud. Alejandro is very handsome that's why there are so many girls like him. Nena is beautiful, there are so many high class Spanish are trying to court her.
"I'm sorry lady" Alejandro said then he stand up quickly and helped Nena.
"It's okay sir" Nena said then she felt shy to Alejandro. After a few a days they met again.
"Your voice is so impressing." Nena shocked because she didn't notice that Alejandro heard her singing. She got shy and didn't say anything then she vow to Alejandro.
"Don't vow at me, I'm just a student here. You can call me Alejandro." Alejandro said. That's why they had talk to each other. Alejandro talk about his life, then he helped Nena to organize papers because his classes have done. That's why Nena became comfortable with Alejandro.
Then they are always talking inside the campus. They are always happy together. They confess that they have inlove to each other. But they keep it secretly because Alejandro is in seminary, besides Alejandro is came from rich and famous family that's why her parents want him to marry a high class Spanish woman. One day they saw by a man. He told what he saw to the priest. That's why the priest got angry to Nena and specially to Alejandro. At the first the priest decided to remove Alejandro in seminary and remove Nena in school campus. But the priest has dark secrets. Nena and Alejandro know it but they keep it secret. The priest is also one of the founder of this school. He is a pure Spanish priest but he lived in the Philippines for thirty years. He is good priest in front of people but his heart is really bad. He made law to pay tax to the church. All Spanish and all Filipino who are living in the whole Barangay should pay for tax. The poor people ask favor to the priest to decrease the tax for them because they are working in the Spanish government but that's free, no labor so they're need to work for themselves to gain money. But the priest didn't feel mercy on them and she got angry and call the Filipino worker "lazy". Nena is working on the school so she knows all the bad doings of the priest. She has secret anger to priest but she had nothing to do because she is a only Filipina worker. The priest also stealing the money form the church and schools. The worst of that is he is also stealing the land of Filipino farmers. He is abusing all the Filipino but in the public he is saying the good words. His character of the church is totally opposite of his true personality. That's why Nena decided to write books to reveal the sins of priest. Nena learned to read and write because of Alejandro. That's why the priest had gotten angry about the books and he commanded to investigate about it. One day the priest knew that Nena is the author of the books. When he knew that Nena has affair to Alejandro he had excuse to kill Nena. The priest also decided to kill Nena in public to embarrass Nena and her family. Fortunately that's didn't happen because the people and other officials felt mercy to Nena and they were amazed to endless love of Nena and Alejandro. That's why the officials exiled Nena to far place. Then Alejandro go back to his seminary and he became a good priest. The officials of the Spanish proved that the priest committed sins. They proven that Nena's accusations are true so he removed from being priest. That's why he cursed this school that every couples will be truly in love to each other will never be together." Roggen said and he gasped for breath because he told the long story.
"That's amazing story, Nena is very brave." I said and I really felt that I belong to Nena and Alejandro.
"Are you believe in curses?" Roggen asked me.
"I don't know" I just said.
"Is that so? Why?" He asked me seriously.
"Because I don't know if that's true."
"I'm asking if you are believing or not. Because there's nothing wrong if you believe or not." He said seriously.
"Okay fine, I don't believe because I didn't experience. Are you satisfied in my answer?" I said in sarcastic way. He just laughed.
"Now let's go back to my question." He said in he looks directly in my eyes. I felt the strange emotion again.
"Do you believe in everlasting love?" He asked.
"I am not believe in everlasting love. If the everlasting love is true why some people leaving their love ones? Why some people hurting their love ones? And why some people are don't give importance or time to their love ones?" I said with full of emotions.
"Do you really know the answer?" He said. I just upped my eyebrows.
"Sadly, some people didn't already see or feel the everlasting love. Some people neglected, being hurting and some people feel the they are worthless. Just because they are focusing on the people only. We know that people are changing and not all the people can love us the way we do. Don't forget to call to our God. He is not changing, he is always loves us since we lived in this world. He is the everlasting love and he will give the right person that will also give everlasting love to us."
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Author's note: Nena and Alejandro story is only fictitious. That's all came from my imagination and it didn't written in the Philippine history. Thanks for supporting my story. God bless everyone!!