Random Short Stories

One

"Why are you crying?", she asked him.

It didn't make any sense to her. This boy who she thought was the strongest she had ever met, to see him cry was something she thought she'd never get to witness. But there she was, seeing the same person who told her that crying was for the weak, cry.He refused to tell her. In fact, he ignored her. She felt a sharp pain in her heart. She shook her head. Right now, she had to concentrate on him.

She went and sat down next to him.

"Are you alright?", she asked.

He refused to even look at her. She put her hand on his shoulder. 

"You can tell me what's wrong."

He started wailing and put his head down while crying. She also put her head down, still looking at him. She could see those beautiful eyes with the eye lashes glistened with tears. She saw a tear fall down on the table. She couldn't take her eyes off him.

He was mesmerising. And although it was weird to say this, he was beautiful. They sat in silence. He was crying and she was looking at him. She didn't know what to say to him, how to comfort him, for she was never that good at comforting crying people and he never let her come close enough to him.

That day, her heart ached to see him cry while she could do nothing for him. It hurt her even more when she had to leave him as her mother had called her. When she came back after picking up the call, she heard another voice in the room. She hid and peeped inside the room and saw her best friend talking to him. They were laughing together. What she couldn't do for him, her best friend did.

Her glued up heart shattered once again while she ran to the washroom. She sat there and cried until the tears glued her the pieces of her heart again. She went back to the room and told them that she had to go.

On her way back home she realised something. She would never be able to make her beautiful boy happy. He deserved an angel, not a demon like her. And just like that, she decided to make the two of them come together. She could be a friend. She was happy to just be a friend. She didn't need anything more than to see him happy. She just needed to see him with someone who made him happy. Who could be as good as him, who deserved him. And so she promised herself to slowly go away, vanish from his life and let him live it in peace. Her love, would after all be a burden for him.

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- C.T. aka Lee Ae Sook