All We Have Is Now!

New beginnings - 1

The time when the sun's ready to go down to leave the night, all alone for the moon, there comes a certain time, when the whole sky gets painted in the magnificent colour of blue. Everything under that blue looks, so profound, peaceful and hopeful like an omen like everything would be alright in the end, that's how it was looking right now. The children who were here, enjoying the happiest period of their life, already left with the sunset, while few of them were still playing at this hour. And here I was waiting for him. He asked me to meet at 5 but it's already about to hit 7. He always made me wait for him, even yesterday too. And today he did the same thing again. I really wanted to leave right now just to get back at him but I couldn't, not to him at least. Rather I should be grateful to him, he's ready to give me a chance, I really hope for us to be normal again for last remaining days. A few minutes later I saw a figure slowly running in my direction. It was him. His clothes were pitched black, getting perfectly aligned in this dark background but even in no light, his face was glowing like the moon illuminates the dark sky. Before I could even say something, he cut me off,

"Before you start whining, I am sorry okay"

"It's okay it's nothing new. You always make me wait for you." I tried to sound annoyed a little

"You did too for three years."

I felt the color drain from my face, knowing how right he was. I would never be able to past the fact that I was partially the reason why we both drifted apart. Only if I had chosen to be a little brave, I wonder how different things could have been.

"Hey! I didn't mean it like that, it just came out this way." His eyes were full of concern

"I know. I just feel guilty, you know." I tried to force a weak smile

He sat besides me, we were watching people around us. The whole place was filled with the voices of little kids playing here and there. The entire place was radiating happiness. I looked at him but he was already looking at me with a timid smile on his face.

"What are you looking at?"

"You!"

My heart skipped a beat. The way he was looking at me, was already enough to make any girl flustered and I was no exception. There was something fluttery i felt in my stomach. I tried to make an eye contact but my eyes were completely fixated on ground. I felt way too shy to even look at him. Maybe that's how people feel butterflies in their stomach.

"I have certain questions to ask" I tried to change the conversation

He just nodded instead of saying anything. I waited for him to say something but he went quiet. I didn't said anything either. We both were sitting in silence , maybe too scared to something that might change our present again. He broke the ice and questioned,

"When are you leaving?"

I felt my own heart sinking at his question. Even though he asked this with a blank expression but I felt it hard to answer. I merely whispered,

"A week!"

He sighed and smiled, " We have a lot of time."

I half smiled.

He suddenly grabbed my hand and started walking in the left direction.

"What are you doing?" I asked in confusion

" Seven days only, we can't waste them. I have something to show you"

As we continued to walk, it kept getting darker and trees kept getting denser. I didn't remember ever coming to this side of the place. It might have looked a bit cooler in the day but right now it was looking very creepier. I asked him where he was taking me but he motioned me to keep following him. After walking for five more minutes, he stopped and pointed at something to look at. I looked where he pointed and I was completely awestruck to see that beautiful scene in front of me. There were many trees of average height but they were very dense as if the entire point of them were to hide this place from trespassers, and in front of them, there was a very beautiful lake. The water of the lake was very clear, because of the moonlight of the white moon in the massive blue sky which was making the entire scene look a lot glorious. It was hard to tell if it was the lake or the moonlight which was looking more beautiful.

"How did you find this place?" I was still completely mesmerized by what I saw

"You don't remember it?"

"What do you mean? "

"Damn it! Do you really forget about this?" He chuckled out aloud

His laugh echoed because of the silence around us and I couldn't help but admire how heartful his laugh was.

Suddenly he turned to me and asked, " Do you like it?"

"Of course" I loved it. I put my hand on his hands to squeeze them but he grabbed my hand and asked me to close my eyes. I did as he said and felt something on my hand. When I opened my eyes I realized, how close we were sitting next to each other the whole time. Before I could ask him anything he pointed me to look at my hand. I closely looked at the brown bag resting on my hand and I couldn't help but scream aloud.

"Are you fucking kidding me or what? Where did you get this? " I was practically jumping at my place right now with happiness

"Do you still remember this?"

"Obviously, it's been my favourite chocolate since I was a kid, I remember I used to eat it every day and every night, how could I ever forget about it. But I thought the company stopped delivering it our area."

"They did." He leaned and rested his head on the back of the bench

"Where did you buy this from?"

"Why do you think I came late today?"

"You bought it. For me?" I was feeling mixed emotions. I was shocked because he went to god knows where just to get this and happy because he did this for me.

"You bought this for me?" I asked and hoped he would say what I was thinking

He said nothing but smiled at me, he said "But I feel offended!"

"Why?? Did I do something wrong again?" I felt terrified even at the very thought of it

"You remember the chocolate but not the person and the place." He sighed

"What are you talking about?"

"Look around us carefully and think about it." He was looking very excited about this which made me even more nervous

I tried to concentrate, to think what exactly he wanted me to remember. But it all went to vain. Not even a single thought came to my mind and this scene in front of me was not helping at all. All I could think was the reflection of the moon in that lake, the silence here, these trees and mostly Marco. I was amazed to see how good he managed to look even in darkness. The way his hair was resting on his forehead, his eyes were sparkling as if trying to compete with the stars above themselves. He used to be a little thin back then but his body looks well built now, he must have been working out for a long time, I guess. My eyes fall on somewhere they weren't supposed to look at, every time he smiles or speaks I couldn't help but to notice how his lips move. Even at this very moment too, the way he was smilingly looking at me all I could think was how would they feel on mine. Filthy girl! I mentally cursed myself. You shouldn't be thinking about him like this. He's your best friend. Well, I wasn't sure of best friends right now but it was wrong to have thoughts like this for him.

"Anything?" He thankfully pulled me out from my filthy thoughts

I denied.

"How could you possibly forget about this? This is the place where we became friends."