Chapter 3: See you again
The next morning, Pucca woke up feeling happy and dissapointed at the same time. She took a shower, put her red dress with her black leggings and her black heeled shoes, added some red lipstick in her lips and went for a walk with Ching and Abyo, Ching and Abyo were kissing and chasing after each other. Pucca smiled and climbed on top of the roof of Goh- Rong restaurant, she laid on the roof facing the blue sky, she sighed and grabbed her stuff for the fact that Ching and Abyo were looking for her. She stood up, Pucca slipped causing her to just hang by the edge of the roof. Ching, Abyo, and some other villagers gasped in horror when they saw Pucca hanging by the edge. Her uncles came outside the restaurant alarmed by all the screams of horror from the villagers. Then they noticed that the villagers were screaming because Pucca was hanging by the edge of the roof.
"Pucca! Resist, don't let go" Ching yelled so that Pucca could hear her.
" I can't hold on any longer, the roof is wet" Pucca exclaimed.
Her fingers were slipping from the roof slowly, until she was hanging just by one hand now. Everyone cried in horror, Pucca screamed, Abyo climbed up the roof so that he could help her and get her up.
" Pucca, grab my hand" Abyo said, stretching his hand so that Pucca could hold on to.
By coincidence Garu was walking and he heard people screaming, sobbing, and exclaiming for help. He took steps closer and saw a big group of people screaming, he looked up the roof and noticed that someone was hanging by the edge of the roof. He joined the group of people and gasped at noticing a lady hanging by the roof. There he saw that she was being helped by someone who was stretching his hand to help the lady hanging by the edge of the roof. Garu with the rest sighed in relief on noticing that she was being helped but he was still afraid. Everyone watched on what was going on and tried to help.
" Okay, I got you" Abyo said, he grabbed Pucca's hand and everyone sighed in relief.
As Abyo tried to pull Pucca up, he grabbed her hand but her fingers were slowly slipping from his hand, after that, her hand completely slipped from his causing her to let go of the edge and falling. Ching, Abyo, Garu, her uncles, and the rest screamed in horror as they saw Pucca letting go of the edge. Garu immediately looked up saw that she was still falling. He rushed towards were she was falling and caught her in a bridal style. Although he did fall to the floor, he caught her. Everyone cheered, Pucca fainted after all what happened.
" Thank you so much" Pucca's uncles said to Garu, Garu still had Pucca in his arms.
" Don't worry, where do I take her?" Garu said, admiring the beauty of the lady in his arms.
" To the restaurant, thank you again, and what's your name?" Uncle Linguini said.
" My name is Garu, may I please stay with you daughter? I want to make sure that she is okay" Garu sincerely said.
" Well she is my niece but she is like my daughter, and of course you can stay with her, thank you very much" Uncle Linguini said, he smiled.
Uncle Linguini showed Garu the way to the restaurant and to Pucca's room. Garu took Pucca to her room and put her on the bed. Ching and Abyo immediately came to thank Garu and see how Pucca was doing.
" Thank you so much for saving my best friend" Ching said as she looked at Pucca.
" Yes thank you very much, she is like a sister to us and if anything happened to her we would be miserable forever" Abyo said.
" There is nothing to thank for" Garu said as he smiled at Pucca, Pucca was sleeping. Ching looked back at Garu and noticed that he was the the gentlemen that Pucca danced with.
" What is your name?" Ching asked.
" My name is Garu" Garu said as he looked at Pucca.
" Oh my name is Ching and thanks Garu" Ching said, Garu smiled.
" Thanks Garu, and I'm Abyo" Abyo said, they shaked hands and Ching also shaked hands then Ching and Abyo left.
Pucca's uncle, came in to Pucca's room to see if Garu wanted something but Garu slept leaning on his hand. Pucca's uncle smiled and left. After an hour Pucca opened her eyes and gasped as she saw Garu. He immediately woke up, Pucca blinked and rubbed her eyes to see if she was not dreaming. Then she spoke.
" Garu?" Pucca said, smiling yet confussed.
" Yes? How are you feeling, you scared me" Garu sighed in relief.
" You remember me?" Pucca asked in disbelief, she smiled.
" How could I forget the beautiful lady that danced with me,but I still don't know your name, I know your other friends but I still don't know you, and please don't run away this time without telling me your name" Garu said, Pucca laughed as she blushed.
" Okay, my name is Pucca, and I already know your name but how did you recognize me? I was wearing a mask during the ball" Pucca said.
" I saw it in your eyes, before you fainted I could see the spark on your eyes, your hair, and I knew that I would never forget the lady I danced with, you Pucca, you have a beautiful name" Garu said.
" Oh, thanks for remembering me and thanks for saving me, I could have died if I fell" Pucca said, smiling at him.
" But what were you doing up there, it was very perilous for you to be up there" Garu said, Pucca stood up and looked out her window, Garu followed her.
" You know sometimes I daydream, I daydream that I have someone that loves me and that I love, that we are together in the good and bad times. That I can watch the sunset and be myself, just like my friends Ching and Abyo, they are hopelessly in love with each other and I might sound sappy but that is what I want, a true love" Pucca said.
" No, is not sappy, I understand you I also daydream sometimes because I can dream on what I want my life to be like but then reality hits harder everytime" Garu said, also as he looked outside the window with Pucca.
Pucca's uncle came in and saw them, he smiled and then invited Garu to have dinner with Pucca. Garu nodded and went with Pucca. Uncle Linguini set a table for two for Pucca and Garu. Garu opened the chair for Pucca to sit. Her uncle put romantic music, candles and flowers in their table. Pucca blushed and Garu smiled. They talked and had a lot of fun and her uncle put a mistletoe on top of their heads. Pucca smaked her headin shame and Garu laughed. Her uncle left but he left the mistletoe on their table. Pucca grabbed the mistletoe and stared at it, she gave it to Garu.
" Can you believe it, a mistletoe in July?" Pucca said, she laughed.
" Oh well you never know" Garu said. Pucca smiled.
" So thank you again for saving me" Pucca thanked.
" I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I had not saved you" Garu confessed.
" So tell me more about you" Pucca said, wanting to keep going with a conversation.
" Well there are a lot of things that I have to tell you about me but all at their right time, I mean it is a long story about my past" Garu said.
" Can you please tell me?" Pucca stated.
" I will tell you someday, don't worry" Garu said. Pucca nodded.
" Okay then, you know I am really happy I met you, I am very thankful for going to the masquerade ball" Pucca said.
" Me too, where have you being all my life" Garu said, Pucca and Garu laughed.
" Oh is really late, time does go fast when you are having fun" Pucca said.
" Oh, well I have to go now, and I hope you have a great birthday tomorrow" Garu said as he packed his stuff. Pucca gasped.
" You remembered, I was just going to invite you, do you want to come tomorrow?" Pucca joyfully asked.
" I would love to, count that I will be here, bye Pucca" Garu said.
" Bye Garu, I had a really good time with you and see you tomorrow" Pucca said.
" I also had a really great time with you, by Pucca and see you tomorrow" Garu said. He hugged Pucca and left. Pucca followed him to the door and went back to her room. All Pucca wanted to do was sleep and wake up the next moring to see Garu again.