He saw her. She was sitting there amidst a group of people. Loud people. People drinking, people laughing, people screaming. In the midst of all that loudness, her smile, her dimpled smile seemed like the slow breeze that caresses the sea at night. Her smile reminded him of the stillness that he used to feel at some point of his life, some long forgotten past, a different time-scale altogether. The stillness that he missed having now. He knew he would never let her go.
She was sitting just beside him, with her favorite book smoking away her favorite brand of cigarette and at times eyeing him. She saw him checking out that dimpled girl. She knew she loved him with almost everything she had. She knew he was the one man who could make her forget the world, the only man with whom everything always seemed to fall into place. She also knew she was everything that he was not looking for in his dream girl. She knew it damn well that she was just another girl for him.
And then she saw him giving his heart away to the girl with the dimpled smile. She saw him speak those words - "You know I love her and I am going to get her, come whatever may. She is the one for me".
Just then, she heard something break. It was quite a loud sound. She somehow accidently seemed to have knocked
down her drink. "God! The clumsy you can be at times." She looked at Him and then she looked at the knocked
down glass , broken and shattered. She felt sorry for it.
She felt sorry for herself.
She felt an anger seething inside her. She despised herself for putting her heart on the line again.
She knew, He was moving away.
As she was trying to clean up the mess she just created, she saw him take those steps towards her, utter those
Words to her- "Will you dance with me"?
She obliged; and then while they were dancing; she saw some kind of a halo surrounding them . A halo so
beautiful, that it took her breath away, a halo so wonderful, that it burned her to ashes.
He, enamored by the beauty of the lady dancing with him, somehow seemed to forget the whole world. He
ignored the fact that there was someone waiting for him at the corner table, hoping for him to turn around,
maybe smile and say "Its late, lets drop you home" or just a "I am here for you, forever." But then Hope
they say can be a big time Bitch.
She took a last lingering glance at the beautiful, almost perfect couple. She turned back, said a silent good bye
and walked away.That was the last time she ever saw him. She vowed never to put herself or her heart ever
on the line again. "Love can wait, am not cut for it".
Days passed like they always do. She moved on, like she always did. Bohemian, that's how she would always
describe herself. Moving from one place to another, from one compromise to another and the list just never
seemed to end.
"Its been awhile" - she thought and ended up going to the same cafe where she would always
go with him. "Ohh!! I have moved on" - she told herself, why miss on my favorite cup of cappuccino for some
thing of the the past.
God has his own strange ways and we are puppets to his idiosyncrasies.
He was right there, in that corner table, slouching over, sulking.
It was like some long forgotten wound was rubbed with shit loads of salt.
He looked up, said a Hello. Where was the Halo, she thought; where was She?
He answered - "You must be wondering, What happened? Well, She left me.
You know why? Because, You left me, you Bitch. She didn't want her love to consume our
Friendship. And, I never knew friendship could be so Ravaging."
"Your Love is Killing me".
She looked up and said - "I should have guessed, there was no way out" and walked away.
She felt sorry for herself.
She felt an anger seething inside her. She despised herself for putting her heart on the line again.
She knew, He was moving away.
As she was trying to clean up the mess she just created, she saw him take those steps towards her, utter those
Words to her- "Will you dance with me"?
She obliged; and then while they were dancing; she saw some kind of a halo surrounding them . A halo so
beautiful, that it took her breath away, a halo so wonderful, that it burned her to ashes.
He, enamored by the beauty of the lady dancing with him, somehow seemed to forget the whole world. He
ignored the fact that there was someone waiting for him at the corner table, hoping for him to turn around,
maybe smile and say "Its late, lets drop you home" or just a "I am here for you, forever." But then Hope
they say can be a big time Bitch.
She took a last lingering glance at the beautiful, almost perfect couple. She turned back, said a silent good bye
and walked away.That was the last time she ever saw him. She vowed never to put herself or her heart ever
on the line again. "Love can wait, am not cut for it".
Days passed like they always do. She moved on, like she always did. Bohemian, that's how she would always
describe herself. Moving from one place to another, from one compromise to another and the list just never
seemed to end.
"Its been awhile" - she thought and ended up going to the same cafe where she would always
go with him. "Ohh!! I have moved on" - she told herself, why miss on my favorite cup of cappuccino for some
thing of the the past.
God has his own strange ways and we are puppets to his idiosyncrasies.
He was right there, in that corner table, slouching over, sulking.
It was like some long forgotten wound was rubbed with shit loads of salt.
He looked up, said a Hello. Where was the Halo, she thought; where was She?
He answered - "You must be wondering, What happened? Well, She left me.
You know why? Because, You left me, you Bitch. She didn't want her love to consume our
Friendship. And, I never knew friendship could be so Ravaging."
"Your Love is Killing me".
She looked up and said - "I should have guessed, there was no way out" and walked away.
