ENDLESS LOVE

Finally, the wait was over! The long hot summer wait for the only person she always yearned for came to an end. He came with the rhythm of every single breathe she took in and out. Never did he seem more intense yet so handsome, that her small round eyes refuses to believe but her heart rejoicing with his thoughts. With the navy blue cap on, every step he took made her heart beat faster and thump louder like hearing songs with earphones in eardrums. His walking was so clear that even while she closed her eyes she could feel his gentle and slow steps. He is not just a man, he is the man she had imagined, dreamt and planned to love forever and ever.

And the beautiful dream broke with the morning dew's disappearance. It was the year before, she remembered so clearly. He came out of a sudden and said to her, ‘Can you please do me a favor?'. She confirmed with a shy nod. He said, ‘Miriam is it okay if I steal your best friend from you, for a little while?’ Miriam did forget that Isabel was with her sharing the bench and chips and of course her life. Isabel was her best-kid friend who had been with her through the ups and downs of life. Hesitatingly, Miriam stood up from the bench with her heart full of insecurities and more thoughts roaming.

Then it continued......the distance from everything. She doubted, 'Can my love be so unreal, so weak?' Eventually, her doubts became her valid proof of the things between her best friend and her prince-to-be. Isabel and Keith hardly met her together. They, the three of them used to meet for meals, drinks, movies and hangouts. After the 'can-you-please-do-me-a- favor' either Keith or Isabel met with her but never together. The late night thoughts, the frequent lost in appetite, the never ending fatigue, over-eating chocolates and listening to emotional songs. Everywhere was nowhere, everyone was no one and everything was nothing. Nightmares followed one after another. Her heart gradually wilted with the August air. It became very weak.

As tears filled her eyes and rolled down from her cheeks, she remembered in her blur watery eyes of the chill winter night. The cold night which brought warmness; the time when Isabel and she were out for dinner discussing on a serious matter, they heard a loud, weird and unusual laughter. That’s when she saw Keith for the first time. He was nothing like a prince! He was not tall, he was comparatively fair and very average looking. Nevertheless, her heart stopped for a while when both of their eyes met. His eyes, his eyes showed sincerity, he had a majestic charisma and his presence brought about a change in her mood, she calmed down and blushed. And little did she know that he is her prince.

Keith's version

The girl with the round eyes; she was not a beauty but her face has the simplicity which might not make a man faint but could make a man go crazy. She couldnot go participate in a beauty pageant because she lacked the height. But her eyes, they have got the sparkle in it and they are deep in which a man could fall easily. So is her face, simple. He thought that night. After the eye contacts, Keith and Miriam accidentally met thrice. Their first talk was introducing one another. What he liked most that day was her name and her smile. She smiled from heart. She was not pretending like the girls in mini-skirts and high heels just to show off. Rather she smiles freely and unhesitatingly. Her name is Miriam he said to himself. Keith also shared his encounter with Miriam to his friends. One of his friends curiously asked, ‘Is she hot? Is she beautiful?' He knew at that instant that his friends might not like Miriam much but he was sure that they were going to love her. 
 
He was not sure but he always had the intuition that they were meant to be. They met several times during gatherings, functions and parties. Soon, they became good friends to know each other very well. Within their friendship for 3 months, he got to know a lot about her. In the mean time, Keith realized that she was not an ordinary girl. She was just too much of a person that she didn't even care to clean her eyebrows. She knew about fashion but she cleaned no eyebrows. She was vegetarian because she always hated meats, she is too scared of injections and needles and she didn't care what other thought.She was patient and she had it all the humors of the world. And the way she talked could melt a person's brain boiling at 100 degree Celsius. She could be furious at times but she was more than just a girl in the short time. She became the perfect girl who he had been searching for a long time.




               

Isabel's view

'I love Miriam. Can you please help me out, conveying that to her?, said Keith. Miriam had just left and Keith was now sitting at the same place of the bench where Miriam was sitting earlier. From the cold winter night they had met, Isabel had a crush on him. Now, almost after a year, she was sensing a strong love between her best friend and her first ever crush. Miriam had been there throughout the bumps and highs on her way to roads of life. She was not just a friend she was her world. Now, her world had found yet another world to cherish and share. She could clearly see through the eyes of Miriam, her love for Keith. He was the one, her best friend had fallen for. Even though, Miriam hadn't open up on that, she believed that she loved Keith more than anything else. Now, Keith loved her too!