Traces of The Heart

It Took Two

<<It Took Two>>

And here I was, sitting on the grass with a bunch of flowers in my hand. The waves gently collided as a soft breeze blew at me.

A smile was on my face as I wiped the fallen tear that had sluiced down my cheek.

"Jadyn Marie Walker Lane

Wife of Camden Lane

3rd November 1987 to 14th February 2006"

Seven long years had already passed by since that day. Life had been normal for me. Nothing exciting happened though, I just went with the flow.

Throughout these years, I slowly managed to notice the littler things in life though. You always told me to observe and not miss out on anything and over time, I finally managed to do so.

With you around, I realized that I could never notice these little things because my eyes were basically glued to you. However, I slowly noticed more bit by bit. I realized that behind every cloud in the sky, there was always a silver lining. It was just like behind everyone's smiles, there was always concealed pain.

When I was at home watching the television, you would always appear in my mind when the show happened to be a romantic one. When waves crashed, I'd turn around on instinct, in hope that you'd be there looking back at me. While I was walking around, I would sometimes see little kids or old couples by the road. And that was when I'd think of you, and what we could've been.

It was always such things that made me think of you. And when I was faced with problems, you'd magically appear in my dreams to show me the right path.

I got up and dusted my jeans as I placed the bunch of flowers down. Don't worry, I brought you lavenders since I knew that they were the only kind of flowers you liked. I had chosen to have you near the sea so I'd know that you'd be happy, while you were in heaven.

My steps faltered as I arrived my destination down a pebbled road.

There stood a small kindergarten situated at the outskirts of town. The bell rang as little kids swarmed out, while smiling and chatting happily.

It was like the first day when we met one another at elementary school. I had found out that you had attitude and you showed it. While the typical person would rather do their own thing and mind their own business, you went up to me bravely, glared at me and then scolded me for blocking your view with my big head on a sunny Wednesday afternoon after class. It amused me to no end to see your cute expression and that was why I always loved to tease you.

Honestly, that attracted me to you very much so. Your confidence and charm just couldn't go unnoticed even when you hid yourself behind books. Ending up in the same school with you time and again wasn't actually a coincidence. I just kept wanting to be around you, like a bee attracted to a flower.

It's pretty embarassing for me to be saying all this out now but I knew I was pretty childish as a kid to want to follow you wherever you go. But on the other hand, if I weren't so persistent, we might not have been where we were today.

Perhaps we didn't start our relationship on solid ground with sparks flying and warm tingles, but we did make it slowly. And if I ever dare say, our relationship grew strong, just like how you knew you had my heart.

We could talk about anything from dawn to dusk and I loved that. I can't forget those times when we were cooped in the tree-house at my backyard where we used to hide under the blankets and tell our secrets to one another. We'd even talk about our future, pretending to act like adults.

Do you still remember the time when I had promised you that when we grew older, I'd marry you and make you my wife? We went to some mall near home and got a small, plastic ring from a "lottery" machine. It had a pink flower on top and some little gemstones surrounding. You wore that plastic ring while pretending to cook in the kitchen with a pot in your hand and an apron on. As you wandered around in the kitchen, I'd read those large newspapers I couldn't even hold properly when I was seven.