It's Time: A Short Story

"Dude, what century are you living in, get over it. She doesn't even see the future with you", she said.

"But I know she loved me, she might have her own reasons.", He said.

"Okay tell me, is she ever going to be with you? No, she will go on living her own life without 'you' anywhere in it. What are you talking about love and all? Do you even know what love is? You are stuck in your own imagination.", she said furiously.

There was silence between the two for a couple of minutes.

"I told you, I know we won't be together. But the thing is, it's me who realized it way too early. She might be too young to understand it. Maybe she will realize it later. May be things will turn around. Maybe... "

"No, you are going on a wrong path and you know that is not ending up anywhere. What if she was not the one. What if you will figure out the one who you would love is still out there somewhere. If you think she is losing an opportunity to have you, what if  YOU are losing a chance to find someone else who would make YOUR story much better as it deserves to be, you love someone who doesn't even consider any future with you? This isn't love, it is stupidity", she was getting angrier.

Those words made him realize she was right. He was blinded by the love he thought it to be. He had closed his doors for someone else who might be the right one for him.

"I think it's time for you to start it again.. Have some hope and go on", She said very seriously.

"I know you are right. But I don't want to go through it again.", He said with a perplexed emotion.

"You have to...", she said.

"It's time...", he glanced at his watch. Maybe he had figured it out.