This is not a normal love story..ours is an extraordinary tale of how love goes on even after death has made it's claim. My story begins on a rainy day in October...
The day was just like any other day. I went to work and he left for his. We had planned for a dinner date in the evening to celebrate my just confirmed pregnancy. It was a news we had been longing to hear ever since we got married last September. I waited for him in front of the Coffee shop which had been our favorite ever since we started dating in college. And there he was waiting for me..with his smiling brown eyes and a bouquet of red roses on his arms. We've been dating since were in college so before we got married we dated a good 5 years. And till now I never felt our love ever fading. Wherever we may be, at the end of the day we ran back to each other like we haven't seen each other in years waiting to love each other. I stood there for a second looking at him and thinking what would ever happen to me if i ever lose him. I shivered with the thought itself. Seeing this he ran to my side thinking i was chilled and said in the gentle voice I'd become so used to,"Darling..lets go inside before you get cold". Till now i can not forget how we ran through the streets under the slight drizzle of rain holding each other tightly, waiting to exchange our stories of the day.
After a lovely dinner we decided we'd take a cab home and not walk home like we normally do. I couldn't understand it then but i felt like that day was different..like something was missing.I couldn't exactly understand it then but it was such a feeling filled with emptiness, like i was gonna be taken away from him.My heart ached even at the thought. I shrugged the feeling away thinking it was a part of the mood swings I've been feeling lately due to my pregnancy. I hugged him closely and told him," Honey..don't ever leave me,i'll die". He turned to me and said," Never..I'll be with you even after forever". Those were the words he'd always tell me when we have fights or I'm sad. Today they ring in my ears and my mind is filled with his face and his warm embrace and with it a feeling like my heart has been torn into a thousand pieces. When we reached our warm penthouse, it was then that i realized i'd forgotten my purse in the restaurant. I had the contact for my new clients whom i had to call that night itself. Hearing about the urgency he told me to dry myself and that he'd run back to get it. I could've stopped him but i didn't..I just shooked my head and went towards the bedroom anxious to get out of my soaked clothes. After maybe an hour of waiting I heard his footsteps and i ran to open the door. He was soaked and had my purse in his hands. I could hear distant sirens ringing but paid no attention to it. All that mattered at that moment was holding him. He was so cold and he shivered badly. Without a word he went into the bathroom and got out of his clothes. Finally he came out, lied next to me and kissed me and our unborn baby. Something was wrong with him. I could feel it. He was so cold and he kept saying how much he loved me and that he won't leave me. The sirens were getting too loud like they were just in front of our house. He seemed unaware of it. I turned to him and saw him smiling at me with the same love in his eyes i'd seen for the last 7 years. I heard a knock on the door and got up to go and open it. At hat moment he held me close and told me he'd always be there for me and that i was not to worry ever. I said," Dan the door..i'll go see who it is at this hour". I felt a bit scared at his behavior but he just smiled at me and said not a word after that. I closed the bedroom door and went to open the door. Standing there was Dan's brother, Alex, looking like he had been crying. Alex and Dan had always been close. With Alex were two policemen both of whom were trying not to look at me. Then Alex said something that haunts me till this day,"Its Dan..Liz he met an accident near the coffee shop, a drunk driver.He died at the instant Liz . I'm so sorry". I looked at Alex like i didn't know who he was and simply said," Alex...you must be wrong because Dan is in the bedroom". The three of them just stared at me like I'd lost my mind. I had to tell them they were wrong and that Dan was okay so i ran to the bedroom. And there I saw...it was empty. There was no trace of Dan anywhere. But then i saw the purse he got back for me near my pillow. I remember nothing after that but just Alex's panicky voice shouting my name over and over again. And the voice inside my head saying,"I'll be with you even after forever".......
The day was just like any other day. I went to work and he left for his. We had planned for a dinner date in the evening to celebrate my just confirmed pregnancy. It was a news we had been longing to hear ever since we got married last September. I waited for him in front of the Coffee shop which had been our favorite ever since we started dating in college. And there he was waiting for me..with his smiling brown eyes and a bouquet of red roses on his arms. We've been dating since were in college so before we got married we dated a good 5 years. And till now I never felt our love ever fading. Wherever we may be, at the end of the day we ran back to each other like we haven't seen each other in years waiting to love each other. I stood there for a second looking at him and thinking what would ever happen to me if i ever lose him. I shivered with the thought itself. Seeing this he ran to my side thinking i was chilled and said in the gentle voice I'd become so used to,"Darling..lets go inside before you get cold". Till now i can not forget how we ran through the streets under the slight drizzle of rain holding each other tightly, waiting to exchange our stories of the day.
After a lovely dinner we decided we'd take a cab home and not walk home like we normally do. I couldn't understand it then but i felt like that day was different..like something was missing.I couldn't exactly understand it then but it was such a feeling filled with emptiness, like i was gonna be taken away from him.My heart ached even at the thought. I shrugged the feeling away thinking it was a part of the mood swings I've been feeling lately due to my pregnancy. I hugged him closely and told him," Honey..don't ever leave me,i'll die". He turned to me and said," Never..I'll be with you even after forever". Those were the words he'd always tell me when we have fights or I'm sad. Today they ring in my ears and my mind is filled with his face and his warm embrace and with it a feeling like my heart has been torn into a thousand pieces. When we reached our warm penthouse, it was then that i realized i'd forgotten my purse in the restaurant. I had the contact for my new clients whom i had to call that night itself. Hearing about the urgency he told me to dry myself and that he'd run back to get it. I could've stopped him but i didn't..I just shooked my head and went towards the bedroom anxious to get out of my soaked clothes. After maybe an hour of waiting I heard his footsteps and i ran to open the door. He was soaked and had my purse in his hands. I could hear distant sirens ringing but paid no attention to it. All that mattered at that moment was holding him. He was so cold and he shivered badly. Without a word he went into the bathroom and got out of his clothes. Finally he came out, lied next to me and kissed me and our unborn baby. Something was wrong with him. I could feel it. He was so cold and he kept saying how much he loved me and that he won't leave me. The sirens were getting too loud like they were just in front of our house. He seemed unaware of it. I turned to him and saw him smiling at me with the same love in his eyes i'd seen for the last 7 years. I heard a knock on the door and got up to go and open it. At hat moment he held me close and told me he'd always be there for me and that i was not to worry ever. I said," Dan the door..i'll go see who it is at this hour". I felt a bit scared at his behavior but he just smiled at me and said not a word after that. I closed the bedroom door and went to open the door. Standing there was Dan's brother, Alex, looking like he had been crying. Alex and Dan had always been close. With Alex were two policemen both of whom were trying not to look at me. Then Alex said something that haunts me till this day,"Its Dan..Liz he met an accident near the coffee shop, a drunk driver.He died at the instant Liz . I'm so sorry". I looked at Alex like i didn't know who he was and simply said," Alex...you must be wrong because Dan is in the bedroom". The three of them just stared at me like I'd lost my mind. I had to tell them they were wrong and that Dan was okay so i ran to the bedroom. And there I saw...it was empty. There was no trace of Dan anywhere. But then i saw the purse he got back for me near my pillow. I remember nothing after that but just Alex's panicky voice shouting my name over and over again. And the voice inside my head saying,"I'll be with you even after forever".......
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