Not So Happy Ever After!

"I'm falling for you and I don't want to think straight. I have not been this happy since a long time. Let's not stop, because,I know that you *feel* the same." I urged him holding his hand on the extreme secluded corner of a small coffee house. The rain drops were gently touching the window pane beside, just as I wanted his fingers to touch my skin and run down my soul.

He tried too hard to not to look at my eyes, but I was drowning into his eyes wanting to kiss his lips and to melt in his arms. I knew he was falling hard and I was not. I just loved the feeling of being loved and wanted it so badly. Just as the drought hit land requires rain, I needed love and I couldn't let him go. Finally, he made a move and tried to speak; but he was struck as he looked at me. It was nothing like the time had stopped or the world ceased to exist, like it happens in movies, the time was running as fast as our heartbeats then and all the people were there too but it didn't matter to us. For us, it was just us; still holding hands and looking at each other. I knew there was no looking back.

1 YEAR LATER
I took him to the darkest corners of my heart and he lighted them with his love. His touch, so gentle; his love, so kind. He fitted in my broken heart so well that I forgot that I had told him it can't be forever; but he remembered.

It took me so much to realize that when I was falling in love with him, he was falling out of love. Now, I am completely drenched in his love and so we are sitting again on the same place to deal with his falling out of love thing.

"I didn't believe you when you said it won't be forever but with time I, too, realized it. I know that you love me now, but, I don't love you. I feel that you don't complete me. I'm sorry. It's over. Please, take care!" He tried to comfort me holding my hand. I kept looking out of the window, blinking back my tears. This city of mine looked so different to me, suddenly. The sky looked brighter, trees greener and the city dwellers seemed more cheerful. Is it so necessary for everything to look bright and happy when everything is dark and gloomy in my life? I wondered.

This coffee table must have seen so many patch ups and break ups. So many hearts might have been broken right in this corner at this coffee table. My mind was running fast, I was thinking too much trying not to think about us. He kept on blabbering words but I didn't want to listen. I wanted to lock myself somewhere and cry. Cry my heart out. And, never look back. I was too burdened from within and I had to let it go somehow.

I wanted to tell him that I want to leave; so I, finally, looked at him.

That face.

There was a long pause till my eyes were filled with tears.

I love him, I realized.

But, the world and people didn't fade out this time. This was over, I knew.