Invisible String

EPILOGUE

THIS IS THE LAST PART OF INVISIBLE STRING. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MY STORY, ENJOY!

[Lucian]

Lake Lucern

While painting a scenery for my client. I was painting the lake when the people behind me started to create a crowd.

Then a cellist played Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift Featuring Ed Sheeran.

All I knew this morning when I woke
Is I know something now, know something now I didn’t before.
And all I’ve seen since eighteen hours ago
Is green eyes and freckles in your smile
In the back of my mind making me feel right

I get into the feeling of the song and sketch the scenery from where should the alps be and the clouds. I made it look like the water in the lake was moving.

As I added the finishing touches a random girl suddenly stops to capture the beauty of Alps. I stopped the painting waiting for her to leave.

‘Cause all I know is we said, “Hello.”
And your eyes look like coming home
All I know is a simple name
Everything has changed.

Funny how the girl I wished to leave the view is my only view.

As the people gather and wait with me. I can't help but reminisce the memories.

"Lucille! Come on, I've been waiting for you to marry me. Its been 3 years, schatz, please."

She faced me with anger on her eyes. "I told you, I'm still not over with the fact that you lied to me about it years ago."

I can't help but laugh at her. We were casually reminiscing our memories together and when I reminded her of how I lied on not being able to understand english language will always be a good memory to me.

I can clearly remembered that day, she was having a hard time translating her thoughts to me. I never intend to make her suffer but her strong determination made me admire her from the very start.

"Happy Birthday, Lucille!" It was past 11 pm of September 2 we just waited a little bit longer and changed the candle to celebrate my birthday after her. "Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!" (All the good things for your birthday!)And I wished for this day to happen.

She was walking down the aisle. I can feel my heartbeat pounding through my chest.

"So what did you wish?" She asked after we got out of the church. "Es war etwas, an das ich nie gedacht hätte." I replied.

She listens to the translated version and bobs her head telling me she understand. "Something I would never thought of asking."

After our wedding we looked at our old photos when we were still single and a picture caught our attention.

"Hey that's me!" I exclaimed pointing at myself in the background of her picture.

All this time we've been hiding in plain sight of each other.

She was at my art camp back in primary school. While she focuses on photography , I focused on painting.

It's her hair and her eyes today
That just simply take me away
And the feeling that I'm falling further in love
Makes me shiver but in a good way
All the times I have sat and stared
As she thoughtfully thumbs through her hair
And she purses her lips, bats her eyes as she plays
With me sitting there slack-jawed and nothing to say

It was funny how we met each other again after years. Some told us that it was destiny, others says it is fate. But I wanted to believe it like a blessing in disguise.

'Cause I love her with all that I am
And my voice shakes along with my hands
'Cause she's all that I see and she's all that I need
And I'm out of my league once again

It's a master for melody when she calls out my name to me
As the world spins around her she laughs, rolls her eyes
And I feel like I'm falling but it's no surprise.

The flower girls throw the petals in the aisle. Our family follows right after then the people that connected us, Lucille's manager, the couple that started their connection, Lorenzo and Julliane.

All I am thinking about is when will I be able to feel safe,happy, and they always feel like home. "I love you a little bit more today." I said to her while she's editing.

She completed the parts of me I never thought of being incomplete.

Lucille didn't only bring light to my world but a life I wanted to be. As I capture memories, she captures a part of me that only is available if I have her around.

Having our birthdays next to each other seems to be telling that we should be together.

Its been a good 3 years together. Celebrating our Anniversary, to our birthday tradition.

I remember when only half the portrait of the wedding was there. "Why is it only half like that?"

"I wanted to see you do the other half with painting of our picture." Lucian smiled so brightly and took his chair and paint.

Slowly the incomplete picture turns to be perfectly match.

As Lucian fills in the blank space in the canvas with the paint. I remembered the time I proposed to her.

The venue was like before. Different paintings of her was displayed in a small room.

From faces to full body paintings, coloured to black and white, and to me facing the church in Switzerland.

It was all in there. But unlike before it is only me and Lucian. "Why is there so many portraits of me? You dont want to forget me, huh?" She jokingly said.

We walked until we reached the middle part where the picture of her in the church is placed.

"I remember I took that photo of you. The original plan was to send it to you but the thing is, you didn't want to give your social media." Lucian started to explain. "I want it to send to your personal account but I chose not to. Not because I was mad, but during the times you were depending on me, I felt like I found my purpose in life outside of painting."

Lucille continued to listen. "Then slowly I didnt realize I kept looking for you in every person I met. I prayed that someday whatever moment, no matter in time, we will be meeting again if it is meant."

"The time you told me about being in the same church. It gave me hope that it is really you that is for me so I took all the opportunities and never let you go after that. It is like the sign I've been waiting all along."

Lucian smiled happily after patching together the details that connected them. "Just like an invisible string ties you to me."

Lucille walked closer to Lucian and gathered her arms to hug him.

The tears that had been forming in her eyes fell. "I love you a little bit more today."