Another foreword. Well, at least I have three chapters finished. I'm just not willing to post all three here. This one would be enough. Anyway, I'll delete it sooner or later, just need to psyche myself up in making newer chapters. Geez. I'm a lazy ass.
Foreword
Sitting on the lawn that didn’t quite much feel like the grass that covered the earth only yesterday, I stare listlessly at the lake hoping that time would bring me back to those days when love tasted sweet and innocent.
“Anette,” Tita Sonia softly called out from behind as she moved closer to where I was seated.
For a moment, I didn’t realize it was I whom she had called. I must have been confused somehow I couldn’t distinguish between fantasy and reality.
“Tita,” I smiled as my eyes followed my aunt’s silhouette approach me.
Just as I was about to stand up to take a leave from the lake’s splendor, Tita Sonia pressed my shoulder as if to stop me from moving, then sat down with me looking out to the lake with as much nostalgia as I have.
“Your grandmother always gazed at the lake,” she smiled as she recounted. “She loved it so much she always asked to be brought here. There is something about the lake that made her come back.”
As she said this, tears began pouring down my cheeks though I tried in vain to keep them. Flashes of images slowly came back. Episodes of a distant memory seem to have refused to leave my thoughts.
“Why are you crying?” Tita Sonia asked, wondering what she might have said that caused me to crack into weeping.
“Nothing, Tita... I’m sorry.”
I had so many things to tell her but there is always doubt in my mind that if I did tell her, she would not understand any of the things I believe – happened.
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