"It's tragic, isn't it?" the girl asked, eyes fixed on the painting hung before them.
Confused, the boy looked around before realising she was indeed talking to him. They had never really spoken before, only knowing each other from art school.
"It is," he finally replied.
He peeled his eyes away from the painting itself to look at the name:
'Princess Emilia and Prince Henry,
The lovers who could never be.'
"It is beautiful though," she said.
This, he had to agree. The painting showed a princess and a prince reaching out to each other, surrounded by the forest.
"Do you think they ever found each other?" she asked.
The boy turned to her. "What do you mean?"
"The legend. People in their kingdoms believed in a legend that said soulmates would find each other in every lifetime. It's said that Prince Henry made a promise to find her in the next life and every life after that before he died," the girl explained, still staring at the picture.
There was a short pause as the boy processed this. Eventually, he spoke.
"I guess that's not entirely impossible. Do you believe reincarnation is real?"
"I believe that if they were truly meant to be, even the universe wouldn't have been able to stop them from meeting again, and again," she said.
They turned to face each other.
She didn't know if she was imagining it, but there was a lingering sense of familiarity as her blue eyes met his green ones.
YOU ARE READING
in every life
Romantika tale of two lovers "I swear to the gods I will find you in every life I live and we will do what we could not in this one," one tells the other. and they do.
