11:58 PM:
He had just lived his worst day.. Or so he hoped. Tommorrow's agenda though had some real potential to shatter this hope. And he knew he was going to have to deal with it. Tommorrow it was! No more running away from it. Without even realizing it, he had spoken the last few words aloud. The sound of his voice seemed unusually hoarse, slightly surprising him to the extent that he looked around from the corner of his eye to ascertain that nobody else was around. No one was. The dillipated villa was deserted as he had known it to be for years. Yet at this place, in all its solitude had helped him find solace amidst all his predicaments. Ironically it would be here that he would have to face the toughest challenge of his life. He walked away from there knowing he had one more night to live... to dream...
1:29 AM :
Sweat beads rolling down his temple, the soft linen pillow didn't feel so comforting to his restless mind
2:56 AM :
He had heard something. Or was it him breathing? Yes, it was definitely him breathing in short almost hurried gasps of air.
3:34 AM :
It was just a futile exercise, all of this. He picked up the weapon...and hoped he picked up pieces of himself too. This job would need the whole of him. And more probably.
4:46 AM :
The villa stood there in front of him uninviting in the moonlight. For all the beautiful memories he had here with her would be marked today.
4:48 AM :
She was there. He'd pictured this all night and had prayed that his sight would betray his vision. It was but as truthful as his love for her.
She: 'You know I love you, right?'
He:(muffled, almost choked voice)'I kn.. know'
She: 'Then you will do as I want you to do'
Her voice was ruthless, cold almost alien to his senses. He looked up. Her face glowed like it did on the nights they spent time alone at the villa lost deep into each others eyes... Chasing each other... Playing like toddlers... Teaching each other.. Living the other persons life in their minds eye.. For years.. decades.. centuries..
She : 'It would be quick and you wouldn't even know'
He : 'Quick! It is not the pain that scares me.. It is losing this! You are all I have.. No body else'
She : 'But we must complete what was such a beautiful story. The story of two beings coming together. We have lived glorious lives. It is time to depart.. Our separate ways!'
He : 'You will come back again won't you?'
She : 'Where else would a poor soul go?'
He : 'It is indeed a scary world out there. And so you will wait here.'
He drew out the weapon and pierced it through her ghastly pearly white...yet stunning beautiful body.
He : 'You know I love you, right?'
She :(muffled, almost choked voice) 'I kn.. know'
He : 'Then you will do as I want you to do.. It would be quick and you wouldn't even know'
She : 'Quick! It is not the pain that scares me.. It is losing this! You are all I have! No body else'
He : 'But we must complete what was such a beautiful story. The story of two beings coming together. We have lived glorious lives. It is time to depart.. Our separate ways!'
She : 'You will come back again won't you?'
He : (pause)
He : 'It is indeed a scary world out there. And so you will wait here.'
He departed leaving his soul behind. She stayed watching her soul drift by.
