Six Ways in One Road #30

After their journey to ecstasy, both Herman and Luisa were fallen to a deep sleep that they were only awaken when someone opened the door of the bedroom. It was Carla who just arrived with Thelma from Rheine, and Carla did not expect that there is a male inside the room she shared with Luisa. Carla quickly closed the door and returned to the living room where Wilhelm was sitting.

"I thought you will bring your things in your bedroom?" Wilhelm said.

"Luisa was there with a man, Herman I guess!" Carla answered Wilhelm. Wilhelm said no words but just smiled.

Herman and Luisa inside the bedroom hurriedly dressed themselves and then came out the door. They saw Wilhelm in the living room. Herman shook hand with Wilhelm.

"Just arrived from Rheine? Sorry, we fall asleep!" Herman apologized.

"Herman stayed with me because I am alone." Luisa said. Carla just looked at Luisa. She does not like it that Luisa slept with a man on the bed they shared together. Luisa ignored the look of Carla. "Where is Thelma?"

"In the kitchen, organizing the food we brought from Rheine!" Carla answered Luisa. Luisa then walked toward the kitchen.

"So many sausages!" Luisa exclaimed when she saw many sausages on the table as Thelma arranged it in the refrigerator.

"The mother of Wilhelm insisted we have to bring it home!" Thelma replied.

"How is Germany?"

"I think it's a nice country. The mother of Wilhelm, Hendrika was genuinely nice and hospitable. She did everything to please us, and the daughter of Wilhelm, Helga is also nice. I liked it there, the house of Wilhelm was not far away from an Airbase where he works."

"Are they already in good terms, Carla and Wilhelm?" Luisa asked.

"I don't know, but I saw them talking seriously. If Wilhelm is really interested of Carla, I think Carla will be lucky to have him as her husband." Thelma gave her meaning about Wilhelm.

"I hope for Carla. Grace was happily settled down in Cyprus. Cyprus was also a nice country, only we encountered wrong people there. Lorna was also lucky with Gunther in Switzerland."

"And you? How is your Herman?" Thelma gave a meaningful smile to Luisa.

"My Herman?" Luisa repeated the words of Thelma.

"Yes, do you see already yourself to settle in Rotterdam?"

"Well, I slept with him already, and...I'll tell you, every time I did it with him, I am in heaven!"

"You love Herman?"

"I think so!"

"So fast? For a short time?" Thelma had her thoughts. Seemed the two, Carla and Luisa were in a hurry, while she had nothing or no one.

"Love at first sight happened, so I guess nothing is strange, falling in love with Herman in a short time!" Luisa answered Thelma, then Herman entered the kitchen.

"Schat, is possible to have a coffee? For Wilhelm and me?" Herman asked for a coffee for him and Wilhelm, calling Luisa 'Schat' a word in Dutch that meant 'Honey or Darling'.

"Yes, Scheet." Luisa answered with a laugh.

"What you said?" Herman asked Luisa.

"Scheet! You said to me, it means Honey!" Luisa chuckled.

"Yeah-yeah! You know that is not the meaning. I will punish you later, you naughty girl!" Herman also laughed and went back to the living room. "Don't forget our coffee!"

When Herman went back to the living room, Thelma asked Luisa. "What is Scheet?"

"Fart. You know when you blow wind from behind and it's stinky!" Luisa laughingly answered while she is making two cups of coffee.

"You're crazy! And why did you call Herman that?" Thelma asked Luisa at the same time shaking her head.

"No reason, I am just teasing him!"

Yes, Luisa was the same as usual, back to her naughty, happy-go-lucky attitude. She seemed forgotten her sorrows if she did have about the death of her father. Maybe it had something to do with love she found. Love indeed conquered everything. In case of Luisa, the changed of emotion was just in a snap. Love suddenly broken the sorrows of Luisa and make it into happiness which Luisa now fully enjoyed.

The three girls stayed in the kitchen while the two Wilhelm and Herman seriously talking in the living room, then after a while, the three girls saw Herman dial the telephone. It was Pieter, Herman was talking with in the telephone.

Then the two men said to the girls that they will go to the house of Pieter, as Wilhelm said to Carla, it had something to do with buying out Carla commitment from the syndicate.

"Wilhelm is really serious about you!" Luisa said to Carla when the two men gone.

"I hope that Herman to you too. And I did not like it that you and Herman were doing in our bedroom." Carla answered Luisa, the same time make a point about Herman and Luisa together in their bedroom.

"What's wrong with it? It is my bedroom too. You like it that we will do it in the room of Thelma? Or just in the living room?"

"You have to change the bedsheets!"

"If that's only the problem, okay, I will do it later before we sleep."

"So, it means you will not work anymore with the syndicate? You will move soon to Germany?" Thelma asked Carla.

"I had a serious talk with Wilhelm. He wanted to marry me, and I said yes!" Carla answered the question of Thelma.

"You are lucky. Wilhelm was nice and so his mother and daughter." Thelma said.

"How about you Luisa, you are very close with Herman, is he serious about you?" Carla asked Luisa.

"I don't know!" Luisa answered. Carla and Thelma looked at each other.

"What do you mean by that I don't know? Are you not talking about marriage?" Carla could not understand the answer of Luisa.

"Not yet, but I am not in a hurry!"

"You have to use your brain!"

"How could I use my brain in love?" Luisa laughed. "You two have nothing to worry about me. At this moment, I know that Herman and I are in love with each other, and for me that's more than enough. I trust love! I just see, what will happen tomorrow!" the two Carla and Thelma were speechless from what they heard. Luisa's reasons could maybe right but so as Luisa was, it had some shade of naivety.

An hour gone, Herman and Wilhelm were back in the apartment. Wilhelm only said goodbye to Carla before driving back to Germany with words that he will comeback before the girls begin to work which was over two days. Yes, the one week free given to the three Filipinas soon will be over, they have two days more. Carla understood that Wilhelm had not yet settled with the syndicate about the matter concerning her.

Herman asked Luisa if she liked to come with him to Rotterdam and Luisa gladly with opened arms agreed. Luisa told Carla and Thelma she will be back the next day maybe in the afternoon.

While driving to Rotterdam, Herman noticed that Luisa was quiet.

"Something wrong?" Herman asked.

"Wrong? What would be wrong? No, there's nothing wrong!" Luisa answered.

"You are so quiet?"

"Oh, I am just thinking!"

"Thinking about what?"

"Carla, she will be soon departing from me and Thelma."

"Well, not yet. Pieter must talk yet with the syndicate. Next week, Wilhelm will hear or know about it."

"Is Pieter also from the syndicate?"

"I don't know."

"How did you know Pieter? He is a Belgian and you a Dutch! You reside in the Netherlands and Pieter in Belgium"

"A long story, it's not important!"

"I hope there will be no problem about Carla, so that she and Wilhelm will be together!"

"It will take a little time, but I am sure there will be no problem!" Herman assured Luisa that there will be no problem about the buying of the commitment of Carla with the syndicate.

"It would be nice and good for Carla. She will be settled and will have no problems anymore, only to concentrate herself as a wife in a stable marriage."

"You cannot be sure of a stable marriage; you can hope but you never can be sure!" Herman answered to what Luisa said.

"Okay, you are right. But me, if I marry, I will try my best that my marriage will be a success, stable and happy!"

"Really?"

"Yes."

Then silence. Luisa said no more words. She stopped talking.

"You are again silent. I think something is bothering you!" Herman said.

"I am just thinking, you know that we were six when we leaved the Philippines? Now we are only three over and soon maybe two." Luisa said. "In Cyprus Grace married and now living there. Luz, decided to come back to the Philippines but she was not there, and we do not know where she was, you can say she was missing, Lorna, you know already. She decided to stay with Gunther in Switzerland. Now, Carla, the possibility to live in Germany."

Herman said nothing. He could not understand why Luisa was talking about the group and what happened to the other girls.

"Herman, when will you ask me to marry you?" after a short pause, suddenly Luisa asked Herman a question Herman did not anticipated. ****to be continued****Remedios Dorio