Meeting at a Restaurant !

"Life has taken all of it", he whispered watching her expressions intently as if answering his question himself.

Sitting in front of him, playing with a fork in her right hand, eyes lowered down at the table, she felt like a total stranger to him.They met after whole seven months.Everything felt to be changed.

As soon as their eyes met, she moved her gaze away around the empty restaurant.Sensing her discomfort he kept fiddling with the menu on the table, glancing at her from time to time.He could sense the emptiness in her eyes. He could feel her hands trembling while she ate a single piece of pasta lazily and uninterested. She was not there to eat, just to watch him, talk to him, feel him.

The chirpy and bubbly girl he used to know had lost somewhere.The reason was not unknown to him yet he refused to admit.Trying to sound friendly he was reading her expressions keenly.

She on the other hand, reluctant to face her own emotions, tried to look around to hide from his eyes. Looking at him after such a long time did not make her felt loved neither it made her feel agitated. She just felt a void between them. She tried every bit to stay calm and composed. She managed a wry smile in hope of brushing aside those painful thoughts.

Fighting the urge to cry in front of him, to ask him whether he still missed her, whether he missed her voice, her sweet talks, her loving eyes. She decided to confront her fears by talking about every silly thing that was not worth discussing.

His mention of the girl he was dating still left an ache in her heart but she managed to smile weakly and asked her gently.

Out of all the safe talks, they decided to leave the place. Coming out of the restaurant in the open, she felt raindrops falling from above as if the sky could not keep its emotions.She could easily hide those welled up tears in that drizzle falling off her face.


With a sad smile, tears in eyes and questions in mind she waved him good bye. Unable to look into his eyes, she started to return to the place she belonged. To the place she could think about the time spent him with him, can cry over that and can forget about all that to start a new life.

She was certain he felt nothing like that.
She was certain he thought of her only as a good friend.
She knew that she could not be more than that.
Never again in this life !!!