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“Venice!”shouted Destiny as she called her friend. “Oh, Des! You're here?”Venice said to her when she noticed.

“Uhm Yeah... I go to church you know?”Destiny jokingly said. “I know, but I thought you usually go yo church at a different time?”Venice asked the older girl.

“Pfft... I have to go somewhere tomorrow so I went today.”Destiny replied.

After that, the two girls went inside the Church.

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Venice is just 13 the time when she dreamt of becoming part of the Church's Choir. She was so eager to be a part of it ever since she performed with some of them at an event.

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Venice sat down and started to fo her personal prayer. After that, she was looking up, mesmerized by the Choir's perfect seating arrangements and uniforms.

As she was looking at them, she realized that one of the Male Choirs is looking at her. They locked their eyes to one another.

She felt like rge world had stop, like there's the only two of them at that scene. He might be up there but she can clearly see him. He's the only one she sees.

There, the unusual feeling she felt...

Her heart started to beat faster, she can feel that warm blood going through her body as it circulated. She felt for the first time, the butterflies that made her unsure what feeling was that.

As she looked at him, the more the more confused she was. And there, she felt hot.

She unlocked the staring and looked at the floor. She touched her chest and felt her heartbeat.

‘What was that?’ She asked herself.

‘Am I afraid- No... This isn't that feeling... Am I-’ Venice started to sweat.

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After that, Venice and Destiny went out of the Church. Venice is still confused. She's so young and clueless.

Unlike the teens her age, she's way different. Most of them had multiple experiences in relationship and other kinds of stuff. But Venice is not like that. She had never been in a relationship before.

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“Venice! Hello?”Destiny called. “Oh, yeah. What is it?”She asked. “I called you for 5 times now. What chips do you want?”Destiny asked.

She then picked and they sat down on a table on the shop. “You've been spacing out again. Wassup?”Destiny asked worryingly.

“Oh, nothing.”She said as she felt guilty.

“By the way, you've been with the Choirs before right?”Destiny asked. “Yeah... Why?”Venice answered.

“Well, I saw this male Choir looking at me earlier. And he looked quite charming. The guy from 4th row on left side 3rd seat. Do you know him?” Destiny giggly asked.

This time, Venice felt sharp pain on her chest. So she's wrong, the guy wasn't looking at her?

Venice then tried to forget about him and told Destiny that she doesn't know him.

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A year later, Venice turned 14 and joined some of the summer school teachers. There she overheard some of the teachers that Destiny was being courted by the Male choir named Miami.

So she asked those young teachers about the information since Destiny is her friend and she never said a word about it.

And so, the male choir was the guy she saw that night.

Well turns out, after that incident which is not incident incident, she changed her time of going to church.

And she barely heard anything from her older friend.

Until she went back on going to the same time.

She saw him once again and felt the same thing when she saw him looked at her with a cherishing look.

Venice realized that she likes him. With just a look, he caught her.

Miami in the other hand always stares at her. He looks at her because he found her pretty in her own way.

Until he knew that he is indeed having the mutual feeling with this girl unknowingly.

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Her fondness of him grew as time pass by. She finally joined the Choir and get to be with him. But they have never spoken to each other.

Venice know that it is still not the right time for her to have a romantic relationship with anyone at that kind of age. So she sticked with the guy who doesn't talked to her but gave her strength just why looking.

Miami on the other hand, he is not yet talking to her because of the same reason and another reason. He knows that she's still young and is unable to have a relationship with anyone yet. And he is also still focused in school.

Though the age gap is just 3 years, still a gap.

Venice was always asked by her friends why she likes him even though he's not talking to her. “Love is unpredictable. It's full of surprises. You can love someone without communications and even gestures or conversations. As long as you are happy and you feel the flame, it's what keeps the feeling going.”That's what she always say.

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She always gets jealous whenever a girl will try to flirt. Funny enough, he will avoid those girls.

That's how it works for them.

Until one day, they stopped seeing each other. Just happened, like all of a sudden. They just realized it when they found themselves missing each other.

She's heart broken. She misses him so much but she couldn't fo anything because she's still unsure about what he truly feels.

She can't help but to think that maybe he already had a girlfriend since he's in the right age. And it made everything worst for her.

Slowly she lost interest on everything. Her strength is no more, he hope was all but gone.

So she focused on studying. Nothing else.

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After 7 years, she graduated as a nurse and he is already working as an architect.

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“Paging Nurse Covel, Nurse Covel. Please proceed to the Emergency Department immediately.”The Paging system said.

So Venice went straight there after she attended a patient.

“What is it, Nurse Jill?”She asked. “Dr. Beck is calling you. A patient arrived and is in cubicle 14.”A nurse said.

So she went there. “Nurse Covel, this is Ms. Farrah Holmes , passed out while walking, Please assist with the tests that will taken from her.”Dr. Beck said as he looked at the chart.

Then a Dr. Beck went outside if the cubicle and Venice stayed there with the patient who's currently unconscious.

She then heard a voice. “Doctor, How's Farrah?” The person asked. “Are you perhaps her Guardian?”Dr. Beck asked. “Yes.”The person answered.

“Nurse Covel, can you please take this to Dr. Shin?”Another Nurse said that was in the cubicle with her.

So she went the other way go to the said Doctor.

When she came back, the nurse are still attending the patient. She went inside and gave the result to Dr. Beck.

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“Nurses, please assist the Patient to her room 1106.”Dr. Beck said and they took her there.

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Venice was in the hospital for 23 hours already, no sleep, barely ate anything because of the busy hospital.

She sat down on a bench in front of the patient's room and rested a bit. It was dawn, 4am to be exact. She's dizzy and tired.

She closed her eyes for a bit of time and suddenly felt her heart racing. She thought maybe she's just tired. When she opened it, a guy came out of nowhere.

“V... Venice?”He asked stuttering. “Miami?”She thought she's started to hallucinate. Her heart beat was really fast, she's feeling that again. Why? How?

“It's been a long time...”He smiled.

The first time... He talked to her, he spoke, he noticed.

“Yeah...” She said, blushing.

“I see, you're a Nurse now huh?”He sat down beside her. “Yeah, I am...”She answered as she looked down on her feet, can't face him.

“You still are the same as always...”He said.

“What do you mean? This is the first time we've talked to each other.”She asked.

“You didn't change. You are still that quite type and pretty as always.”He said.

That made her feel the warmth again.

“You see, all these years... You're all I think about. Never had a day or night that I didn't think about you. I've longed for you for so many years.”He said and then smiled at her.

“You... Liked me?”She asked.

“No... You must be mistaken.”He grinned and made her felt embarrassed.

“Oh, I'm so sorry. I misunderstood I'm tired and I haven't eaten or slept yet...”She then stood up out of embarrassment.

“I don't like you Venice. I... I love you...”He said he then stood up too.

“At that time, we had reasons to not be together, but I have countless of reasons to not give up on you.”He said then.

She started crying as she heard those words from him.

“I never layed my eyes upon anyone, I never did. And they told me I was stupid to do that. Yes, maybe I am. This is cheesy but I'm stupid to let those girls go pass by because I'm hoping that we'll see each other again someday. Until this day came.”He said.

“Thanks to my cousin, she got hospitalized...”He joked, bad joke man... Bad joke.

His cousin was Farrah, the patient Venice was assisting.

They laughed slightly and that cheered her up.

He took his handkerchief, wiped her tears and caressed her cheeks.

“Thank you...”Venice said.

“Thank you that You Waited...” Venice added.

“For you, I always will...”He said...

“I love you, Venice Covel...”He then said as he kiss her hand.

“I love you too, Miami Lancer.”She then, proceeds to kiss him on his lips.

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