She in His Barbie Doll House

When Fern said she had punched harder, she tried a little bit of mix martial arts, she tried combat sports and was enjoying it but her body gave up on it.

Her pain from her previous miscarriage decided to engulf her whole body. She can still do it actually but she won't be able to bear the pain soon. So she stopped and found other ways to heal her body, and that's hiking. And it fits perfectly with her job.

But there were other reasons that she was slapped also, it's because she was young and she had been stupid. That's it.

Yohan had heard about it and set a meeting but Fern had just told her to set it for another time. Fern was just not feeling it, she doesn't want to feel the feeling of being pitied or being berated yet, she just felt cool that day. She doesn't want that feeling to subside soon. Instead she was in a mode to console a shocked, and scared Gamaliel.

"I hope you learned something from that", Fern said.

"What do you mean learn? You mean I should probably enroll in a gym now to defend myself", he said sarcastically that Fern caught up.

"Really, I should had been the one to face them, they kept on coming here also since I started it but it was only now that they sent a violent one"

"But they would had been violent also without the punching and slapping", he replied

"But really, Gamaliel how are you", she said calmly

"I should be the one asking you that, are you really…." Gamaliel stopped when he saw that she was clearly sincere, she did not ask him again but her caring eyes and still silence urged him to speak heartedly.

"It was really scary, that was the first time I experienced something like that", Gamaliel confessed

"What your feeling right now is normal, but what she did is not normal and it will never be normal if situations like this kept on happening, so have the courage to stand up for yourself." She said calmly

"Wow, you looked really cool, right now Ma'am", Gamaliel replied that actually made them laugh.

"But really, thank you" Gamaliel said, ending their conversation with a really great sincerity on his voice.

Fern was already at the café and was waiting for Yohan. She is already imagining what the scenario would be, she was nervous. She, she is having this same feeling, same feeling when she let him down, when she felt like he let him down by letting him go. She was reminiscing that scenario when;

"if that is what you want don't expect me to love you just like how I loved you before you said that" Yohan said with resentment but with hurt and pain that transformed into tears.

"Yohan, you could have better opportunity..." Fern, sobbingly replied

"And do you think I would give you up because of that opportunity…."

"And, and...

"And what more?" Yohan asked

"And so that I could have a better opportunity also…..." she said almost whispering

"And I don't want this incident, this misery to be our connection…..."

"So that's how you felt, sorry, really really sorry if that's how you felt because this misery that you called is not the only connection that I tied myself unto you. Sorry If I love you….

"YOHAAANNN!!!" Fern forcedly said and like almost a child throwing tantrum, she had her hands in a fist and was violently hitting her bed where she was sitting.

"Yohaannn" she whispered. "I want to start in a way where both of us are …...wherein both of us are confident enough that we can bear each other's love. Look at us now, this happened and we did not hurt only ourselves but also our family. We can't even be accountable enough of what we need."

"You're asking space, that's what you want to say…you can directly say it" Yohan answered calmly with a hint of acceptance now.

"No, I'm not, if you want to stay by my side, you can and I will. If you say that you are still going to love me, I can still do that too. What I'm asking is a time, a time for both of us to heal, how can two broken people heal each other? And when both of us were the reason why the two of us are in pain"

That last line really kicked Yohan right in his heart, and immediately also settled his heart down.

Yohan stood up and turned her back at her, so Fern was a little bit in panic. But he turned back again after heaving a sigh, then confidently and happily said;

"If it will be us, then it will be us then, but can we still be each other's someone if we still don't have that someone?"

Then,

"Are you waiting for someone…, ma'am?" asked Gamaliel

"Ah, yes… I was waiting for…." Fern said and was clearly flustered

"Guys, I think we need to another place, they don't have what we are craving for" Gamaliel said and turned his back clearly blocking their view from seeing Fern and was ushering his school mates to the exit.

And sure enough Gamaliel saw Yohan going to the café's direction.

Yohan entered and immediately saw Fern. He sat down right in front of her, he doesn't have the strength to scold her but he felt like he has a right to lecture her.

"So what did you do anyway?" He asked in lukewarm tone, where it has the tone like 'what did you do again'

"uhmmm, nothing… I just did what is right and then she suddenly became violent and kept on…"

"Fern?" Yohan asked

Yohan seemed like asking at the same time calling her. Fern stopped. She felt his cold voice and aura piercing right through her soul.

Fern was trudgingly following him but he just seemed annoyed or anything so he just held her hand like a child.

Gamaliel saw Yohan held her hand and watched the pair walking towards his car. Fern seemed like a child being pulled by his father, telling her to walk faster.

He carefully watched as Yohan tucked in Fern in the seat like a child. And Ma'am Fern was just like a doll in a doll car, and Mr. Yohan as the owner.