That Face | Excerpt | Work in Progress

Do you still have that face etched in your memory? Every detail, every curve, even the curve of their smile and the warmth it made you feel in your chest is still fresh in your memory?

You don’t have the pictures with you anymore but honestly you don’t even need them because those moments are still fresh in your mind and heart. It’s so fresh that you can describe all the tiny details too and the listener can feel themselves in that moment with you. 

Actually, you know what not just the smile but those shining eyes, the way they looked at you and only you. Like they never had them for anyone else. The way their cheeks turned red when people used to tease them by your name. The way those lips just called your name, felt honey to your eyes, a name that was just meant for you. The shoulders that were there for you to lean on always, your constant support. 

Yes, things didn’t work out the way you both wished for but you never lost the respect you had for each other. It’s still there and both of you are not the villains of each other’s story, the time is.

They still walk into your memory with that smile and those glittery eyes looking at you, might even be seeing through your soul and ready to give you that shoulder again to lean on and support you. But you can’t, just can’t accept them again as you have moved on. But you can’t also let the memory go, as they were your sliver of sunlight through all of your darkest days that kept you going. That made you believe that yes things would get better if they are by your side. 

Even though you have moved on in your life, sometimes you like to visit those memories in your heart, visit that person because they help keep you sane even till this day during all the chaos life is.

These people are the ones who are called ONCE IN A LIFETIME people. The things they have made you feel you cannot ever again feel the same way in anyone ever, the warmth they made you feel stays even after it has been years without them, they are still there with you and will always be till the time to prefer to hold onto them.

The above piece is a part of my work in progress novel.

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