Runaway Groom (Groom Series Book 1) (English Translation)

Chapter 33

I cried so much in front of his coffin. Other guests stared at me but I did not care. Tita and Kuya Dominic were just around the corner and allowed me to have my moment to talk to Hughie alone.

My cry resonated inside the huge house. I could not hold back the shaking of my voice.

"You were so good. I didn't deserve you. The world didn't deserve you. But you didn't deserve to die early either." My voice kept breaking. My chest hurts so much.

I had difficulty breathing because of the intensity of my crying. The pain was too much.

Why did he have to die so early? What is it with good men that they die early?

The moments in the past that we shared together flashed back in my mind.

There was this one time when it was my birthday. He knew how much I liked the movie "Call Me By Your Name" so he surprised me.

I thought that during that day, we would just watch an ordinary movie. But I was wrong.

He was the sweetest. The most thoughtful.

He rented the whole cinema. CMBYN was shown to the public 3 years ago already and it was no longer being showed in theaters. I wasn't able to watch it in cinemas because I didn't know about that movie when it was released in 2017. I once told him how much I wanted to watch the movie on a huge screen. But I did not expect him to grant my wish. He called the production company and paid them for a special screening. That's why it was just the two of us inside the cinema.

There was this one time when the manager of the fast food I was working for got so angry at me because of a mistake I made while serving a table. The manager embarrassed me in front of my co-workers and I told Hughie about it.

The next day, the manager apologized to me. His face was swollen, as if he was almost beaten to death. And that same day, I noticed Hughie's swollen hands. I was still able to notice his hands even if he tried to hide them from me. I found out that he was responsible for my boss' face.

But it was all nothing compared to what he really did to me. His reluctance to accompany me for three years to help me forget Mew. That was the kindest thing he ever did to me.

We were strangers. And how can one be so kind to a stranger?

Tita told me about Hughie giving Aron a few million pesos from his personal savings to keep Aron away. It made me feel more guilty.

Hughie was so good. No one deserved him. Not even the world.

I would never forgive Mew for wishing Hughie to die. He was so shameless! He was heartless! A true ingrate!

I lost count of the time I spent standing in front of his coffin, crying as if there was no tomorrow.

It took me a day to finally accept Hughie's fate. I forced myself to look at the bright side instead. That at least he won't have a hard time anymore. He won't feel the pain that he has been enduring. The few weeks he spent for chemo, I witnessed how much he was hurting. I witnessed how he tried to show that he was strong, so that Tita and I would not worry so much.

My face was beyond devastated as I watched his coffin descend to the ground. I feel so heavy. And the feeling of your heart slowly breaking once again filled me.

I hugged Tita who was crying loudly. I did not want to take away her moment so I just cried quietly. She is Hughie's mom. I don't want to ruin this moment for her. Tito, her husband, was also just quietly crying next to us.

"Rest in peace, Hughie. You will always have a special place in my heart." I dropped the white flower into the pit. His coffin was now fully underground.