Second Time

LET IT PASS, IT'S PAST

That night Dafa and Grace were at an amusement park. The two of them sat facing each other, enjoying the beauty around from the top of the slowly spinning ring. Grace looked so happy, she didn't stop smiling.

"Well, why is it so quiet today? There's usually a lot of people waiting in line for the ring, but now it's just the two of us here."

"So, maybe people are busy." Dafa smelled a smile.

"I don't think it's the weekend? At least there will be a lot of people coming."

"Maybe today they'd rather go to the town square." Dafa answered at that.

"really?"

"Looks, look there." Dafa pointed towards the square which was quite far away but could still be seen flickering lights and crowds.

"Right, it looks like it's a lot of people." Grace nodded.

Unbeknownst to Grace, Dafa asks to close the playground for today. He wants to enjoy alone time with Grace there. Dafa didn't tell Grace because it was obvious Grace wouldn't approve of it.

"Hey, the boat stopped. What's the problem down there?" Grace looked a little panicked, the bianglala rides stopped spinning and stopped at high altitude.

"Grace, relax, it's okay." Dafa smiled.

"really? I'm afraid I can't go down." Grace cuddly looking down looking for the ride operator.

"Grace." Dafa grabs Grace's fingers and grasps them, stopping Grace from panicking.

"Yes?" Grace looked at Dafa.

"Do you really love me?"

"Hey, why ask at a time like this? You ask as if we're trapped and our lives are going to end here" Grace chuckled.

"Grace, just answer." Dafa smiled.

"I love you so much." Grace clasped Dafa's hand with her other hand.

"Grace I want to tell you a little bit about our time."

"Yes, I'd be so happy to hear that." Grace smiled.

"Grace, if mass is about us painful, whether

you still want to be with me?"

"Daf, I still don't know what happened between us in the past. But I'll try to accept it if it's an unpleasant thing."

"Grace I'm sorry, I'm so guilty of you."

"Daf tell me, I don't understand if you don't tell me, I don't know what you're sorry for."

"Grace, you really wouldn't have left me if you knew?"

"Yes, I'm not leaving you."

"Grace, I can't afford to lose you back, but I don't want to hide our mass from you either."

"Yes, tell Daf, I'll listen to him."

Dafa told me what he did in the past to Grace. Dafa tells us what really happened, not reduced and not added. Grace listened quietly without interrupting the word of Dafa.

"Grace, I'm the one who left you first, I'm so unstable, thoughtless and so immature."

"Yes, I understand."

"Grace, you fought hard for our relationship but I kept avoiding you."

"Then?"

"I realized you meant a lot after you actually left and disappeared."

"What was the moment I moved to Singapore?"

"Yes, I didn't know where you were going, I visited your house several times but you and your parents didn't live there."

"Daf, when I left were you hurt?"

"Very."

"You really love me now?"

"Yes." Yeah." Dafa nodded. "I struggled to find you back then but didn't find you at all."

"Thank you for fighting for me Daf."

"My fight is not worth the mistake I made with you, I'm sorry Grace."

"Daf, whatever happened in the past I don't want to bother about it anymore. Your family's problems must be very heavy and make you slump, you lose the people you love. I wish I hadn't hurt you in the past." Grace smiled.

"Grace, you really never hurt me, in the past or in the present."

"Thank God, I'd feel guilty if I hurt you."

"I'm the one who hurt you. Grace, don't you really hate me? You weren't mad at me after hearing what I said."

"Grace, why are you so kind?"

"Don't praise me." Grace chuckles.

"You take it so easily, you can hit me now."

"Daf, maybe if I was the Grace I used to be, I might be upset with you for leaving me without such certainty. But as of this moment I don't want to make things complicated just because the mass has passed. Now you're my lover and I just want to be happy with you."

"Grace, thank you."

"I also thank you for being honest with me."

"Mmm, Grace."

"Yes?"

"Will you live with me?"

"Yes." Yeah." Grace nodded, smiling brightly.

"I'll make up for all my mistakes, I won't hurt you again."

"Yes." Yeah." Grace nodded back.

"Grace, let's get married." Dafa took out a small box containing a ring.

"You proposed to me?" Grace chuckles.

"Yes." Yeah."

"All right, I want to." Grace thrust her fingers.

Dafa put on Grace's sweet chase ring, she was so happy that Grace received it without a trite ado. Grace was different, the girl was not chatty but always calm and gentle. Dafa continued to smile seeing that the ring had been linked to the finger of the girl he loved so much.

"Mmm, Dafa."

"Yes?"

"There's one thing you have to do."

"What's that?"

"Walking to both my parents."

"Both old men?"

"Yes, especially dad."

"Dad?" Dafa immediately froze in thought with Wira, Grace's father.

"Why are you surprised?" Grace chuckles.

"What's wrong, I haven't seen your father in a long time."

"Do you know my father."

"Of course, didn't your father say it?"

"He didn't say anything, but he knows you."

"Grace, I'm a little worried about your father." Dafa scratched his non-itchy head.

"Why?"

"She doesn't like me, she probably knows what I did to you first."

"You don't worry, my father won't do you any harm."

"Grace, what if your father doesn't accept me and he doesn't approve of our relationship?" Dafa's face began to grim.

"Hey, why not be confident like that? Consider it your last challenge, if you manage to take my father's heart then we can get married soon. If not, then we can't get married." Grace gave a small laugh.

"Grace don't scare me any more."

"You're over-thinking Daf, I'm sure my father will accept you."

"All right, I'll do it."

"I'm sure you can face my father, Daf."

"Well, I'll be seeing your parents soon, however I have to get their blessing."

"Yes, I have to." Grace smiled.

Dafa and Grace were finally quiet, they enjoyed the atmosphere of being elevated while holding hands. No more words spoken, they just feel the pounding of the heart that never want to stop a second every time they are close. Dafa was no longer worried, he had told Grace everything. Dafa has admitted all his mistakes and is trying to make up for them.

Grace humbly accepts everything that happened in the past even though she has not remembered it at all. He chose to listen and believe what Dafa was saying. Grace did not want to complicate the relationship they had just built, which she knew Dafa loved her and she loved Dafa.

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