Our Love That Fade Through Time (Short Story)

Our Love That Fade Through Time

"You fall in love with the most unexpected person at the most unexpected time." I whispered to myself, I chuckled, remembering how we fell in love with each other.

Theodore Owen Gray, the hottest man in the basketball club, the head boy of the school, the role model of the students, and my annoying best friend. Akira Selene Heira, known as the snob girl, popular with boys, and barely talks with anyone else. Her words can cut deeper than the knife. Theo and I have been friends since we were ten years old, and he's been sticking around ever since then. It's been 8 years of friendship, and here I am, thinking if he ever had feelings for me, because I did. I can't deny the fact that Theo is really good-looking and he's a boyfriend material. Who wouldn't fall in love with him? He can make you fall in love as deeply as the ocean. He's amusing as monkeys are. He's a walking encyclopedia. Everything makes him so great. 

It was me, the one who confessed first in the middle of the rain at midnight. I cried on his shoulders shouting how much I love him and begging for him not to leave me. After everything I said, he just cupped my face and kissed me. His kiss tasted as sweet as sugar, and then I realized it wasn't a one-sided love after all. I couldn't hear anything that night, just my heart pounding so loud. We started dating after that night and a few months after we started our relationship. We graduated from college and we decided to work in his father's company. A year later, we decided to move together. In our house, we made so many memories and planned everything for our future in our house. Everything was so perfect for us.

Ten years of being in a relationship with him is fine and delicate. We often argue at all, but when he starts hanging out with Ken and Deanne, he always comes home late. He's always busy and he doesn't give me any updates at all. I talked to him about that matter, but we just ended up arguing. He even left home that night, so I ended up calling him over and over again. I flooded  him with messages. Hours passed, he finally came back and said sorry to me. We talk and I told him how I felt when he started hanging out with Deanne and Ken. I told him that it bother me a lot when he's with them. He just pulled and kissed me, giving me assurance that he would never do anything stupid again.

Months have passed since Owen and I started arguing over little things, and while we're in the middle of arguing, he'll just leave and come back again when the sun is rising. We become toxic. He started acting weird and different, it's like he's not the same Owen I've loved. I need to talk to him so that we can clarify what's happening between us. I got home first, I made our dinner and I waited for him to come home, and he did. He arrived at 8'oclock, we ate our dinner together, he's in good mood. After eating we stayed in the living room, watching TV and cuddling.

"Owen, we need to talk." I said, he looked at me "About what, love?" he asked and glanced at the TV again. I took a deep breath and said, "Is there something wrong between us?" I asked, he gave me a confused look. "It's like, we're not the same as we are before." I said, he fixed his position and held my hands. "There's nothing wrong between us, Selene." He said and kissed my hand. "Why do you think so?" he asked, "It's just, you always come home late and you are always leaving when we fight, that makes me wonder that you might be che---" he cut me off "How can you think of that? Why would I even do that? Selene, I already told a million times that I will never do such a thing like that!" he said. I gulped as I saw the anger in his eyes. "I'm sorry, Owen." I whispered, he got up and started to walk away. It's not Owen, that guy is not Owen. Owen would never walk away from me even in a fight. I wiped my tears and followed him.

"Owen!" I shouted as I chased after him. He looked at me and stopped. I walked towards him and grabbed his hands. "What's happening to us?" I asked, my tears started to fall down again. "Stop crying." He said in a cold tone. "This is not us, Owen." I whispered to myself. "You're right, this is not us." He said as he lifted my chin up. "Please let's fix this. I'm begging Owen." I said between my sobs. He kissed my forehead, as I cried harder. The next thing I knew, I woke up all by myself in our room.

"So what happened after that night?" Mara asked, because she had no idea what really happened to me and Owen after that, no one really knows what happened to us. "I just woke up, that I don't feel any love for him anymore, and it's the same goes from him." I said and smiled at her. 

"So, Owen, how come that you and Selene broke up after ten years of being in a healthy relationship?" my friend Ken asked, I glanced at him, "What did Selene tell you?" I asked, Ken and Deanne looked at each other, maybe thinking how I found out that they talked to her. "I know you talked to her, she told me." I said and chuckled "So what did she say?" I asked again, "She said that, the next day you both woke up, the both of you didn't feel the love you guys felt before." Deanne said, I smiled and nodded at them. "No one cheated on the relationship, no one  left. It's just love that left us." Owen said to his friends and smiled at them.

"What's your relationship with him now?" Mara asked Selene. Selene looked at her and smiled. "It ended the same way it began. with two people who didn't know each other." Selene said. Her tears start to fall down remembering all the memories they made together, all the plans for their future. She's crying not because she can't get over him, she's crying because finally she's letting him go. Owen and Selene glanced at each other's eyes and smiled. She once had him in her arms, that green-eyed man who's standing in front of an aisle was her man before. Owen is  waiting for his bride on the aisle while Selene is sitting in the corner also waiting for her other friend Kate to walk down the aisle. She's happy for them. She already accepted the fact that even if she loved Owen so much, if they're not meant for each other, they can be a lesson and the most beautiful memory of your life.

Maybe in another life, they will end up together, just not in this one.

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