They have been sitting there for quite some time now, there wasn’t a single word exchanged in that particular span of time, the prevailing silence was becoming horrendous with each passing second. The girl wore a frown on her face; she was trying to divert her attention from him by staring at the glow board behind the boy. A lot was churning in her mind but and she was try her best at being composed, though deep down she hated doing it. She wanted to speak, speak her heart out, to sort out the misunderstandings between them, to get back to good times, but? It wasn’t as easy as it was supposed to; their ego was a dominant factor. The boy too was in a similar fix of things, he sat with an expressionless face, he too wanted to clear the clouds of confusion and only he knew that, how badly he was missing her smiling face, her silly talks. Not so long ago, they easily qualified to be a perfect couple, but now it seemed that it was just another age.
In the background Bryan Adam’s “Everything I do” was creating ripples of love in the atmosphere, the true to heart lyrics of the song was stirring romance in the air;
“Look into your eyes, you will find
There’s nothin’ there to hide
Take me as I am, take my life
I would give it all, I would sacrifice
Don’t tell me it’s not worth fightin’ for
I can’t help it, there’s nothin’ I want more
You know it’s true
Everything I do, I do it for you”
It felt like those beautiful lines where for them to decipher the love, the kind of feeling they had for each other, but the vacuum was still impenetrable. They had been truly, madly and deeply in love since past two years and two years are supposedly more than sufficient to know each other inside out. And one day their love fell prey to the subtleties of human nature; suddenly there were a lot of differences surfacing between them, small rifts transformed into wider ones, the colours of love were fading from the darker shades to the diminishing shades.
She wanted him to be the perfect guy; she wanted their love to be perfect. In her hunt for perfection, gradually she started to neglect the kind of feelings he had for her. All he wanted was her to be real with him, he would try to convince her about his casual ways, try to sooth her with his mature thinking. But she won’t listen to his strongest pleas. . As they say, “Real people aren’t perfect. Perfect people aren’t real.” It does mean a lot when it comes to love, one doesn’t fall in love to be perfect or real, and with love it has to be something undefined. Slowly, things started to fall apart between them, the distances began to stretch farther, talking to each other took a backseat, hanging out was soon going out of habit; and what followed was chaos.
The silence between them was reaching to its brim, it was necessary to break the ice between them. In the background the music was flowing in abundance, the track changed to “The Scientist” from Coldplay, the magical lyrics where echoing inside the premises;
“But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails
Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it’d be so hard
I’m going back to the start”
For a moment he was lost in the depth of the lyrics, only he knew how badly he wanted her back in his life; the real her. He tried to soak in the enduring effect of the lyrics and started to speak, "I know that what we have is something very beautiful, and its way beyond our comprehension. I really miss those moments spent with you, with you on my side it was just another world and apart from that world I am just as homeless as you are. With all my heart I want us to be together, no just today, not just tomorrow, but forever. I know that, I couldn’t be the perfect one you always craved for, but my love for you is the only perfect thing about me.”
She was so flushed with emotions, after listening to each and every word he said. She too knew that deep inside, there was truthfulness in his words, an ocean of love in his eyes. Soon remorse was overtaking her, all of a sudden she held his hands with her and spoke in a choked voice, “Let’s forget the past and try to make a better future for ourselves, our love.” And their faces were adorned with a gratifying smile. “It may be imperfect, it may be unreal but more importantly it has to be love.” He said while coyly looking into her eyes.
