Tenses of Love (Tennis Knights #9)

Wakas

This is the end of my Tennis Knights series. It was a fun-filled journey and I am thankful that you stayed with patience. Thank you so much for being with me on this journey of growing up and learning. I hope you had seen my growth as a writer (from 2010 up to 2016). I still have a long way to go and I hope that you will still be there as I grow.

Thank you for supporting this story and this series (be it here on Wattpad or the book version). I was able to go through this series because of your support. Thank you so much. Thank you for giving me and my story a chance.

Thank you for loving Enzo and Allie as much as I love them. Thank you for loving Tennis Knights. They were my first series, my first born, my first babies, and they have a lot of shortcomings but I still love them. Please, love them well.

This is Enzo Guttierez and Allie Ferrer, closing the curtains of their story.

This is Tennis Knights, signing off.

Wakas

Three years after the operation

"CONGRATULATIONS, Allie," bati ni Enzo sa nobya nang matapos ang graduation rites nito. Kaagad niyang iniabot dito ang bitbit na isang bungkos na pulang rosas.

Nakangiting niyakap siya nito nang mahigpit saka hinalikan sa pisngi. "Thanks, Renz! Finally, graduate na rin ako," tuwang-tuwang anito.

Matapos ang operasyon nito ay nalaman nilang benign ang tumor sa utak nito. Hindi cancerous. Hindi kumakalat. Ligtas na si Allie. Gumanda na ang pakiramdam nito. Pero hindi nagtapos sa operasyon ni Allie ang lahat. Nag-undergo si Allie ng rehabilitation at therapy. Enzo never left her side. Sinuportahan niya ito sa bawat desisyon nito, sa bawat hakbang nito.

Sa bawat araw, buwan, at taong nagdaan, ipinaramdam ni Enzo ang pagmamahal niya kay Allie at ganoon din ito sa kanya. Walang nagkulang sa kanilang dalawa. Nalagpasan nila ang lahat nang magkasama.

Habang nagpapagaling si Allie, si Enzo naman ay sinimulang abutin ang gusto niya. Nagsimula siya bilang trainor ng tennis sa isang tennis club dito sa Germany. Hawak niya ang oras niya kung kaya't may oras siya kay Allie.

Nang tumagal ay nagpasya si Enzo na magtayo ng sarili niyang tennis club. Nagsimula sa maliit ang Little Arena. Itinayo niya ito sa Germany. He built Little Arena for all tennis players and tennis enthusiast. They were giving tennis lessons, too. Nagagawa na niya ang gusto niya, nakakasama pa niya si Allie.

His club was doing okay. After a year of opening Little Arena, he decided to build one in the Philippines. Kaya c-in-ontact niya si Martin San Victores. With Martin's help, he was able to branch out Little Arena in the Philippines. Si Martin ang pinagpanggap niyang owner habang wala pa siya. Martin owns fifteen percent of Little Arena in the Philippines.

Enzo's life was doing great. Dinadalaw sila ng mga magulang niya mula sa Pilipinas. He was slowly mending his relationship with his real mother as well. And he was able to be with Allie.

Great. Isa na lang ang kulang.

Kinapa ni Enzo ang box na nasa bulsa ng suot niyang slacks.

"After three years, naka-graduate din. Excited na akong bumalik sa Pilipinas. Kapag cleared na cleared na ako kay Doctor Gerard, balik na tayo, ha?"

"Yeah." Tumikhim si Enzo. Marahas niyang hinagod ang buhok. Kinakabahan at nate-tense siya.

"May problema ba, Renz?"

"Wala."

"Huh. If you say so."

Ginagap ni Enzo ang palad ni Allie at marahan iyong pinisil. "Naaalala mo pa ba nang binigyan kita ng tennis ball na may pirma ko?" Tumango si Allie bilang sagot. "Hindi ko sinabi sa 'yo pero may ibang ibig sabihin iyon sa akin. That means there's something I love more than the love I have for tennis. And that's you, Allie. Kung papipiliin ako, ikaw palagi ang pipiliin ko."