Been A Long Time..

"It has been a really long time".

Well,to be precise 9 years 3 months and 17 days.A lot has happened in these years,marriage,divorce,moving abroad,coming back,successes and failures.A lot of things have changed.

But he still finds approaching her to be the most difficult thing and talking to her the easiest.He still feels like making her laugh,only so that he can see her smile.So maybe a lot hasn't changed.

As he is trying to make sense of his thoughts,she smiles and summarizes them,"We may be the same but the time surely isn't".

He laughs and says,"I hate it".

"What?"

"How you always conclude my thoughts before I reach there".She just smiles.

Suddenly he realizes that they aren't alone,and he understands she was waiting for this,she laughs and says,"Meet my husband.".

He is suprised at how oblivious she made him to the world.

"Oh!Congrats man,you are a lucky guy."

Her husband smiles,"I'll give you guys some time to catch up".

"Thanks."

Being alone with each other doesn't feel the same anymore,though it's still much easier than being with someone else.

"So when did you get married?"

"It all happened so suddenly..".

"I asked you when and not how.".He smiles,she still hasn't lost her habit of giving justifications.

She gets why he is smiling and starts giggling and tell him,"It's been 4 years."

"Great."

"So how've you been?"

"As awesome as I've always been.".He has never been a convincing liar,but she lets it be.

"You shouldn't have walked away that day."

"You could have stopped me."

They both know that the other is right and they find though there is a lot to say,they can't do it without hurting someone.

They stay silent for a while,thinking about everything and nothing and then he tells her,"You know for everything we've been,I want to ask only one thing of you."

She gets anxious and asks,"What?"

"Today I want to be the one walking away.".He starts laughing.She playfully hits him and says,"Have it your way."

He still laughing,gets up gives her a hug,"Take care".And walks away.

He thinks,for once she didn't realize that he wasn't kidding.He just couldn't have seen her walking away from him again.

Not realizing that she did and is wondering,"Why do you always find it so difficult to just ask for what you want?"



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For anyone else who reads my crappy posts and is interested enough,read the previous post,'As He Sees It',to get the full thing.