Yours, Eternally

Him

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Zain

Her long white dress, with its even longer train looked beautiful, especially in the sparkling sunlight. It was her mother's wedding dress. It was long lace sleeves with floral designs, clearly an older style, but it suited her. She looked like she had walked out of the pages of a History textbook, but she looked beautiful.

"Zain." She held out her hand and I took her hand in mine, our wedding rings sparkling in our fingers. The soft sand beneath our feet felt warm and almost like a plush carpet. The breeze brought the salty scent of the sea to us, and I inhaled deeply. I don't know why, but everything about being at a beach calms me down. 

It was incredibly how beneath the calm waves in front of me, there was a whole different world, full of varieties of different creatures. It's like how a person often seems calm, even when there's a whole storm of emotions brewing up inside him, not easily viewed from the surface.

"This is what we always wanted." She whispered, her hair blowing into her face making her close her eyes briefly. "Please cheer up." 

"I'm not upset." I shook my head.

"You're mine, Zain."

I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I turned around. 

Wide eyes filled with tears stared up at me, the golden dupatta of her bridal lehenga slipping off her head. "How could you do this to me?" 

"Tara..." 

She began to back away, sobbing.

"Stop. I didn't mean to." I shook my head. "I wasn't thinking straight. Tara, stop!" 

She turned and ran off...towards the water.

"Tara, don't go there! You can't swim!" I yelled. Dropping Sana's hand from mine, I chased after Tara. "Please, stop!" 

The bottom of her lehenga was already in the depths of the water as she walked further and further. 

"Tara, please stop! I'm sorry!" I yelled. I continued after her, but every time I got closer, the waves pushed me back. 

"Tara!"

The waves became stronger as I fought harder. 

And then I couldn't see her anymore. "TARA!"

Suddenly, a spark of hope rose in me as I saw something golden from the corner of my eyes. I turned my head, blinking in the suddenly too bright sunlight and my heart almost stopped. 

Tara's dupatta was floating on the surface of the water.

"Tara!"

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I sat up in the bed of the random services hotel that I had stayed the night at. My heart was beating too fast as I thought about the dream.

What do I even want? 

Well, in the dream, I had chased after Tara without hesitating, leaving Sana behind. I'd been petrified at the thought of anything happening to my wife, especially because of me.

And when I said 'wife', I meant Tara and only her.

I grabbed my phone and looked at the time: 03:37.

There were also numerous messages from Tara, sent after I'd fallen asleep.

<Trouble: Hey, you up?>