( by Raudatul Ula )
In Texas, lived an office worker man named Stephen. Stephen was only 28-year-old accountant in a textile company with not more than US $300 monthly income. He went to his office by an old scooter passing a narrow street in order to avoid the traffic jam in the work time. Stephen was known as the most diligent worker in the office. He never came late.
One day, when he was going to his office, in the narrow street, he got a trouble in his scooter. It couldn’t work even he tried to switched it on for several times. Fortunately, there came a beautiful woman riding her scooter. She offered Stephen a help. She let him to his office by her scooter. By the time, Stephen fell in love to the woman. He loved the woman very much even he didn’t know the woman’s name. He couldn’t sleep properly because he couldn’t stop thinking of the woman. He was eager to know the woman’s name, address, and soon to propose her to be his wife.
The following day Stephen wrote a letter. The letter told about Stephen’s feeling. He put the letter in a pink box and put it in the edge of the narrow street. He was sure that the woman would notice that the letter was from Stephen. He wrote big letter outside the box by “To the Scooter Girl from the Scooter Boy”. When Stephen was back from his office, he wondered to see a pink box written “To the Scooter Boy from the Scooter Girl”. He was so happy because the woman replied his letter. From the letter he knew that the woman’s name was Emily. Emily stated that she also loved him. That was days of happiness for Stephen because he found his soul mate. They were continuing sending letters by the same way. After two months passed, Stephen asked the woman to have a meeting on next Saturday night in the narrow street. Then they met each other to share their love. They passed the night romantically. Stephen said that he would come to meet Emily’s parents to propose her to be his wife on next February 14th 1992. It was just a month to go.
The day was come. Stephen visited Emily’s home. It was a big cozy house with a wide park and two cars in its garage. Stephen realized that Emily was a true low profile woman he had ever seen. He thought that he was in the right way loving such perfect nature woman like Emily. Emily’s parents welcome him well. They were so kind. But Stephen wondered why Emily didn’t come to see him. Then, Emily’s father started the conversation. He said that he had already known about Stephen’s intention to come to their home. He thanked to Stephen for loving his daughter. But he said that Emily had gone to French for a better job. Stephen was extremely disappointed about the Emily’s father saying. He blamed himself that he loved a wrong woman. Emily was from a rich family. She was impossible to love a poor worker as him.
The days after, Stephen swore to himself that he won’t love any woman anymore. He must work so hard and then showed to Emily’s parents that he was able to be a rich man. Stephen was taking an extra work. All the day, all the night, he kept working. Finally, not more than ten years, he was promoted as a branch director of his company. He earned more than US $3000 a month. He was able to change his scooter to become a luxurious Mercedes Benz S800 car.
In one little rainy Saturday afternoon on February, 14th 2000, while he was driving his luxurious Mercedes Benz, Stephen saw an old couple holding a pink box. They were crossing the road and entered to a cemetery park in the edge of the road. He noticed that they were Emily’s parents. He drove his car slowly to meet them. As the same way, Emily’s parents were still kind people. They gave the pink box to Stephen and let him to a grave. There were nine pink boxes on the grave. He wondered that the gravestone was written by the name of “Emily Bloomwood”. Emily’s father told Stephen that Emily loved him so much. She didn’t want to hurt him by knowing that she was injured by chronic deathly blood cancer. She asked her parents to come to her grave on February 14th to put one pink box containing letter which was sent by Stephen to her every year until one day Stephen came to take it all and noticed that she loved him so much. That day was the tenth box. Stephen realized that the day he proposed Emily, Emily had been already died. Stephen genuflected near Emily’s grave and hugged it by crying. He was sorry about the misunderstanding and then he realized that Emily was truly a right woman he had ever seen.
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