In The Country We Love Novels & Stories

She tried to keep her reaction minimal. "You love him." So Ra simply stated as she took a sip of her coffee. "Who?" Lana looked at her friend helplessly. "Do I even need to say it? It's too obvious." So Ra laughed. "I care about Jason..." Lana said, looking down at her hands. "Are you kidding me?" So Ra asked in disbelief. "I don't know what to do. Either way I turn someone is going to get hurt." She felt desperate for an answer that would solve her problem.

For another man. Her father may not be the bestest husband in the planet, but she knew that her father loved her mother dearly. Na kahit pa sa huling hininga nito ay hinahanap-hanap pa rin nito ang ina niya. She had asked her father how and why he still loved her mother that way. His answer baffled her. He said it was because he promised to love her mother until the day he dies. She honestly thought it was bullshit. How can you love someone who was unfaithful to you? Worse, how can you love someone who was not in love with you? "It's happening in a month. And I want you to walk me down the aisle," patuloy nito habang patuloy na nakatuon ang atensiyon nito sa pagkain nito.

I said gently, stepping closer. She looked up at me, her eyes glassy but filled with something I hadn’t seen in years—hope. “Hades, this is… this is too much. They’ve done so much. That girl…” Her voice broke, and she shook her head. “That girl and her father—what kind of people just give so much without expecting anything in return?” I didn’t have an answer. “Good people,” I said simply. “People we’re not used to.” Her lips trembled as she sank onto the couch. “Do you think it’s okay for us to stay here? Do we deserve this?”

"I.. I once had a man I loved and cherished so much. I could do anything just to keep the love we shared." "Okay?" "He was sick and needed money for a kidney transplant. Because of how much I loved him, I emptied my account just so I could gather up the money needed for the transplant. I took a loan from my boss to complete the money, only for me to discover that he wasn't sick and he needed the money to cater for his wife and son he hid in another state." "My God, how did you get to know?" "All thanks to Mr. Ethan, he said he knew that Vincent didn't love me but was only using me to get money."

We had found love. The end…

he muttered, voice breaking somewhere between question and disbelief. “You didn’t want to be alone,” Gabe said, his own voice raw. He stared at the cigarette, but it was nothing compared to the fire in his chest. “And I” His breath shook, betraying him. “I loved you. Even back then. Even before the fake wedding turned real.” The words hung in the night air, fragile and unsteady. Elijah’s gaze snapped up, something unsteady flickering behind his eyes. “You loved me?” “I still do,” Gabe admitted. The truth had always been lodged in his throat, and saying it now felt like cutting himself open.

“It hides you. It marks you.” “Then wear it. And don’t take it off.” --- Santa Lucia The town was small, sun-drenched, brittle at the edges. A place people left and never returned to. A place time forgot. The woman behind the P.O. box counter didn’t ask many questions. When Yvette showed her Elise’s journal and said, “I’m looking for her,” the woman hesitated. “She comes by once a month. For groceries and letters. But she doesn’t like visitors.”

Some of them safe because of the work we were doing. Tomorrow, we'd help more families. We'd expand to more countries. We'd turn more pain into purpose. But tonight, we were just a family who'd chosen love over fear, hope over hatred. And that was everything.

said Delwyn Anderson rattling his teeth right now. “Love is merely love itself… Love the person whom you love… Cherish every moment with the person whom you adore… We’ll try our best to get married later on and to be together forever, but even if we can’t do so, we’ve been satisfied enough loving, adoring, caring for each other and being together from day to day until the end of time…” quipped the younger brother with his relaxing manner right now. “Then you can’t stay in this country… We won’t accept anybody who’s in their homosexual relationships and moreover their incest loves…”

"No, Truths are hard to believe, but lying is not easy at all" "Why are you the way you are?" "I like the way I am, people are always looking for something" "Like love?" "Definitions, I wish they just realize that there isn't any" "♫Country road, Take me home....to the place I belong♫" "I always had a thing for that song; it makes me want to see the world" "I sometimes forget that this is not the only place in this world" "We all do" "♫Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains......growing like a breeze♫"