A Day In my life: Eros

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They were just sitting there. Once bosom friends, but now all that existed in their relationship was pure hatred. But coincidental circumstances are a joke that I like to play on humans; what else am I supposed to amuse myself with? They were stuck together for a whole day with no one else; they'll soon give up their pretense and start talking. And I was not denied that pleasure, the hazel-eyed boy said, "It's been a long time, Diana." The grey-eyed girl looked back ferociously; there wasn't a wave of blazing anger in them but only an icy coldness. She said, "And so the dead can talk. I wasn't aware that I was a part of your life when you condemned me with words making me feel as if I was nothing."

The boy said, "It's all in the past. Can we please move past that if we are to survive?" She said her words dripping with sarcasm, "You are right. I should always help you out in the difficult times, and the one time I fall, you forsake me. Let's do that again, Christopher! I'm so excited!" The best part was that they were stranded in the same place where they first met each other. It had been a long since I had seen them, and people said that I was an integral part of the hate; I, Eros was the one due to whom their Philia love had broken into small pieces. It was partly true; no one can hate you more than someone who once loved you. Christopher looked at her with infinite sadness in his eyes as he whispered, "You feel as if I left, and I feel that you left just as I was coming back." Diana did not hear it or did a great show of ignoring him, and if I were to guess, I would most definitely vote for the second. She went out, scouting for refuge. And he followed her happily. She said, "Why?" Just a question without any context, but the word was heavy with accusations, hurt, and pain. She continued, When did you become someone that I just used to know? You left just hearing my words, but you never looked in my eyes. They were pleading you to come back and console me." He said, "We loved deeply, and that poisoned our friendship. All the time that I was walking away, my heart was screaming for yours to tell me to stop. I made a few wrong choices, and I've grown from it, but I do not regret them." She screamed, her voice raw, "And am I supposed to sympathize now? You thought of me as a distraction." And with this, she stormed away but Christopher was right behind her as he said, "That was one of my worst unforgivable mistake, but we have a chance again and we are repeating history except this time you are the one running away." She looked back glaring at him but he held her gaze. There was something powerful about communication by eyes, words fail sometimes but eyes never do. A heartbeat later, Diana's anger gave way to tears. She said, "All those years passed and you did not even bother searching for me. You accepted my absence as if it didn't bother you. Granted that you did not love me, but we were supposed to be best friends." He said, "When did you start assuming that I did not love you? I said that I wanted to concentrate on my studies in those important years and you needed that too." "Then why did we stop talking? 3 years passed since I last heard of you.", she asked with a hint of hysteria in her voice. He replied wearily, "Because I loved you and I knew that if I stayed near you, I'll never be able to concentrate. So, I drifted away, I did not want any academic regret." I was enjoying every bit of their argument, after all they were the ones who had evoked me. Christopher was totally oblivious of Diana's incredulousness that he continued, "This is not a co incidence. You thought that no one really showed up and we have been stranded here for so long. I arranged all this because I knew if you had known if we were meeting, you would never have come here. We needed to clear the air and awkwardness between us that still lingers." She looked at him with anger and said, "You really thought this would work, seems like you forgot about my headstrongness. I expected better from you, but you haven't changed at all, Chris. Arrogantly believing as if I would still come back to you. I thought that we could be friends but you sure know how to make a person hate you." I felt the connection breaking and for a few moments, I could just make out blurry silhouettes of them and no sound fell on my ears. I could eavesdrop only as long as there exists a little love between and it seems that Diana now hates him beyond measure, but from my experience I knew that she'll come around and soon. I could feel the presence of my arch nemesis, Hate. After a while, I heard them speak again. Christopher was asking, "Is there someone else, Di? I promise to never let you down again, just give me a chance." Diana looked at him with pity and said, "There is no one in my heart and I intend to keep it the same way. You've hurt me enough for a lifetime and the most you can do is stay away from me. I'm happy for you and I hope one day you'll be too, but for now, we are not meant to be is all you should know. Chris, I know it hurts bad to be in love with someone who you know will not reciprocate the same feelings, I used to love you all those years ago." He said, "You must be joking! You still like me, at least a little. Please do not shut me out just for something that I did ages ago and we're the protagonists of our own story, we're supposed to end up together now or later." She smirked and said, "But in my narrative you are the sidekick and this is real life, there are no happy endings here. We can only make some happy memories on the way and face the consequences of every single choice that we make with every breath. Goodbye Christopher! I hope to be just friends and if you say we're supposed to be soul mates, we'll be together one day but for now, Au revoir!" With this she started to walk away just like he had that day. People blame me for all their trouble in paradises. I didn't wreak havoc contrary to the popular belief, I just influenced some of your choices. Suddenly, I felt a strong pull towards somewhere far away. As for this story, some of my other brethren will be here soon, Agape, Philia, Storge I do not know and perchance I'll come to visit them again or no. Sparing a last glance at them, I left in the direction of my summons and I was quite sure that it would be intense, because never had a summon been as strong as when the gods themselves fell in love.