The Elahim Brothers

I Missed You

"I wonder where life would take me" I slowly whispered.

"It is unexpected,that causes thrill Miss Naaz. Can you imagine the state of boredom of something that goes on predictions"

"I feel too old for taking on thrills"

"You're younger than I"

"Yet I feel old"

"Perhaps you're reading the wrong things" he laughed at me.

"I read Shakespeare "

"Shakespeare?  You're favorite sonnet? " he questioned.

I smiled but soon was overwhelmed with the lines as I recited.

"That time of year thou may'st in me behold 
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, 
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. 
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day, 
As after sunset fadeth in the west, 
Which by-and-by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. 
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire 
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, 
As the death-bed whereon it must expire 
Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by. 
   This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
   To love that well which thou must leave ere long" I breathed long and heavy with feelings flowing in me.

"Excellent choice Miss Naaz" he said.

"Summer Street and Love. Sometimes little things are expensive to afford"

"It was pleasure meeting you Miss Naaz" he stated.

"The pleasure was entirely mine. Do not worry my heart doesn't go out of my hands"

"Mine bears no garuntee" he fixed his sight on my heavy lashes.

"Everyone is entitled to their own baggage "

He sighed. I sighed. What if I wasn't the stronger one here. What if he wasn't the weaker one today? What if we both lose ourselves in this night?What if we run away?

A loud noise pushed us.

We turned and found the breeze had broken the vase in the passage.

What was I thinking, I rechecked my senses.

"I must leave Al-Wais " I said.

"Goodnight Miss Naaz" he said

"Goodnight "

I turned and walked out, he followed me.

I looked over my shoulder, his eyes watching me,carefully.

Perhaps I respect him so much that we wouldn't ever be able to be lovers.

"I missed you Miss Naaz" he said.

"but I haven't ---" before my words would travel out I understood. I hadn't been anywhere, I was always here. He missed me while I wasn't here, for all these years in Dar-Al-Maqamah. I thought it to be the most beautiful thing ever said to me.

"I missed you too Al-Wais " I said, for the all the years gone by, that were spent without him.

I smiled.
Who said you have to be lovers to love anyways ?

I settled in my room, it was three past twenty. I wondered if I had ever been this strong. Ever so effortlessly let go.

I slept peacefully.
The soft tickles of breeze, the sweet sound of birds. The colours of foxgloves and all the whiteness of lilies were at sight in the morning.