Beauty in Scars

Part 2- Bitter-Sweet truths (Cont.)

Even if the friendship was blossoming,
he didn’t know how to protect her from
scorn behavior of other kids towards her scars.
He use to feel ashamed of not being
able to stand up to them,
As they grew,the bond between them flourished
at it’s peak.
With the days passing by and conflicting
situations being dealt together,they found
embodiment of affection.

He learnt,how to be there for her.
He knows her silences,her laughter
and even her lies when she pretends
to be ok.
She never conveyed the palace of emotions that were constructed ,as they might cripple the friendship.
After hailing several years of friendship,She could see the glittering eyes of his when they met,but literally forced herself to not believe that the shine was because of her.
How could she ever know that he would gravitate towards her ,after being victim of cruelty
imposed by the world.

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Part 3 – Unspoken goodbyes

There comes a day when it was last day at school.
She didn’t speak a single word during farewell.
He was busy clicking pictures with school mates.
She just saw him once with dampened eyes and left the school premises.
Without saying goodbyes to his mates
He left the farewell party as well.
Just to check if she was ok.
That look in her eyes left him flustered.
As he reached her place,she felt weak and exhausted.
With red puffy eyes she ran towards him and just stopped as
she heard the voice of her father,who was already near the entrance ,greeted him with tenderness as usual, and said in deep voice of sadness,
We have to leave this place tomorrow,I need to be at client’s location for another project.
We didn’t wanted to go because we know you are the only gem of a friend
she could connect to,but we need to go as the business is in jeopardy and this is the only
probability to fix it.

He felt like,his soul left the body.
He didn’t had words to express the brokenness, as he felt the same
like her.He just left with an excuse,controlling the waves of feeling forsaken ,as she never left his sight before.He didn’t had courage to see her drifting away.
She kept waiting for him at the airport
and left.

To be continued..

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