Serendipity ( Winner of #conflation101 one -shot)

Scintilla

28 March 2021

8:45 pm

The cheers grew louder and excitement filled the whole place. This was the day, the day my dream came true. I had my own restaurant in my very own country England. My whole life I wanted and dreamt of this.

This is one of the two things I love or should I say loved, I was happy that I had one at least if not both , though I craved for the second one more. Lif-

"Come on man! Now do the honors of unveiling and revealing the name of this merry place.", Neil roared in excitement.

Yes we were on good terms now, better than ever. What we are now is because of he-

"Vince are you seriously going to zone out at this moment?"

I looked up and smiled at my best friend slash business partner Will. He knew what this place meant to me and he just invested money and let me do whatever I wanted to, including the name.

I slowly walked towards the aisle and took the loose rope like thing in my hand and yanked it down for everyone to see the name popping out in silver lining over the white background.

'Serendipity'

Just looking at it made my breath hitch and my stomach did something weird, something it always did when I thought about her.

"This is awesome!" I heard Amelia squeak.

Amelia is my cousin. She is been supporting me all the time,the time when my mom had given up on my dad, the time I had gone through a bad phase, she was the one who made me realize that I had to apologize for my wrong doing, bullying but still even she doesn't know about this. Nobody does, it was all by chance.

Nobody knows about this. For them its merely a word but for me its so much more that it almost hurts knowing that things would never be the same again. And the one to blame is me.

I looked around to find everyone happy,Will was with some red head, Amelia was with my Aunt Rein, it was a perfect world around me , a part of me was happy but a part was sad too, how I wish she was here the whole time by my side. I still remember our conversation when I told her about my dream.

serendipity: so what do you dream of doing?

LukeWebster: never thought much about that.you?

serendipity: liar! I want to fly away to new places and meet new people. Maybe a travel journalist. Cool right?

LukeWebster: Journalism? Seriously that's so damn boring ): Sometimes I don't get you!

serendipity: What no! Anyways , what about you?

LukeWebster: Its something I'll tell you when I'm done with it!

serendipity: Promise?

LukeWebster: Who are you? A five year old kid or maybe four.

serendipity: Seriously -_-

LukeWebster: Okay. I promise to tell you whenever I am done. Happy?

serendipity: typing...