Ending And Beginning

Ending And Beginning

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A shiver went down my spine as a damp, cold breeze blew across me, tingling my face. I stole a look of your face amid the dimly lit ambiance that has kept us shrouded since the moment you put the friendship between us to an end. I rubbed my palms together, hoping to seep some warmth into them when you inclined a bit towards me. My shoulder brushed against yours, and all the warmth I had been looking for had just blanketed every fibre of my very being.


"You know, the flight you were supposed to catch, has taken off a long time ago.. So why are we still sitting on this cold bench in the middle of the runway?" I whispered breaking the peaceable silence between us. I saw your lips weaving a smile on them as you intertwined your fingers with mine.


"I just don't want to leave yet.. " you mumbled, resting your head against the cold metal of the bench. It was strange how none of us wanted to leave the place that was now the stoppage of our friendship. I slipped my arm around yours and felt something crashing onto me, something more like those tides soaring and sinking in the oceans - a wave of nostalgia.


"You remember how you used to climb up that balcony of my room? And hide there furtively until the clock would strike exactly at twelve, then you would just leap onto my bed giving my heart a huge fright before wishing me a very happy birthday in a hushed tone, and all I could do was to slow down my heartbeat and breathe through my gaping mouth. You would always gift me the kinds of stuff that I hated the most in the world, yet still, I always used to keep each morbid present of yours safely in the secret stash under my bed." You pressed your lips on my hair and inclined more towards me. I knew you remembered these things better than me.


"You know what, I still haven't forgiven you for all those times when you would laugh at my bad puns and then ruffle my hair as if I was nothing but a toddler trying to sit up straight despite falling over continuously. You would spoil my entire hair without even considering the hard work I had done only to set them straight. Sometimes, I would just feel that you were jealous of the fact that I looked better than you but then again, I used to like the way your fingers would run through my hair, despite all the redundant annoyance. " You shifted in your position, laughing silently through the fist you had curled up around your mouth. I narrowed my eyes at you, and all you gave me was a lopsided smirk.


I felt a tugging at my sleeve and saw you smiling at some good memories of us. "You know what I loved the most? " you asked through the smile.

"I always loved removing my shoulder deliberately whenever you tried to rest your drowsy head on it, I always loved that moment when your head would fall onto my lap rather than on my shoulder. It was always peaceful to see you napping right there and playing with your hair, without you shooting daggers at me for spoiling your hair... " I looked up at you, while you stared at the moonlit sky. I let out a laugh reminiscing that faint memory.


I touched the fabric of your T-shirt, letting a faint smile bloom on my face as I remembered how I used to steal your Batman T-shirts and roam around in them only to annoy you. But, all you would do was to roll your eyes and grin, perhaps liking the way I looked in your clothes, just like the way I used to like wearing them because your fragrance resided in every thread of them.

The night was approaching, the stars were more translucent now, and a sudden memory gripped my mind.


"Remember how you used to hold my hand, and fastened me securely behind you in your bike while we drove past the darkness of the night? You would always take me to that lake that had fast-flowing sparkling waters and cold pebbles surrounding it like a shield. It was our place to go whenever we were hit by sadness or happiness, and the murmurs of the lake used to be our favorite lullaby to lull us into slumber. " I felt the nodding of your head, as you inched towards me until there was no space left between us, until I could hear your heart beating close to mine.


I lifted my head up, only to catch you staring down at me with something in your eyes that I couldn't comprehend. A fleeting memory rushed through me as I dropped my head down back on your shoulder. "You think I never acknowledged the countless times you used to draw your eyes away whenever I caught you staring me in that red shirt of mine? If you had thought so, then you should have trusted me when I said you were the biggest fool breathing in this universe. " A deep chuckle escaped from you, as I felt your eyes on me.


A sudden chill went past me as I remembered the dread from the morning. "And just for the record, I still haven't forgotten how you had rung me up this morning and uttered the words I least wanted to hear from you. I still haven't got over that leap my heart made out of my ribcage when you said you were leaving this country for good and never returning to the land where our friendship has been embodied, and entrenched imperishably.


 And, I also haven't got past the quivers that had broken out of me the whole time you made me chase you to this airport. And you, still haven't given me the time to pull myself through the agony of the way you ended our friendship. You still haven't given me the time to absorb those declarations you had made approximately two hours ago, with the security running behind you - the declarations of the love that you have for me, the love that you always had for me, always.. " I exhaled a puff of air, letting out whatever fear and doubt that had infiltrated my mind when you said you were leaving.


"Maybe that's why I didn't feel like leaving this place yet, not before we have made a memory of writing a new chapter of love and togetherness that we have established on the pillars of our friendship, right here with the moon and the stars being the witnesses of it." You said, resting your head on mine and bringing my hand to your lips. And just like that, a memory had already enlivened in my mind.


I remembered how you used to rub your nose against mine in those cold and bleak winter nights while I watched my favorite series in your laptop. I felt a familiar tugging at my sleeve and this time, you didn't hold back the laughter rumbling out of you. You snaked your arms around me and lifted me up into your arms, rubbing your nose against mine and engraving a newfound memory in the depths of my mind.


"Yes, I love you too.," I whispered, letting my lips press gently to your forehead and imprinting a reminiscence of love forever on it. 


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