The Season of Love

Act IV; Colder Than Ice; Alone In Winter

It was December, a week before Christmas and you called me over to the park. You sounded urgent upon the call and I got worried. I headed out to the park to find you standing at the walkway with a grim expression on your face.

I tried to hug you but you pushed me roughly. Confused, I asked what you were wrong and why you were acting out of character. You didn't answer and just gave me stone-cold eyes.

You told me that you wanted to end things.

Unconvinced, I laughed and asked if you were joking. But seeing the seriousness in your eyes, I knew it was real. I held back tears and asked the reason behind this abrupt ending and you said that you fell out of love. You said goodbye forever and left me alone in the cold walkway without looking back.

After seeing your stoic figure fade away in the winter snow, I fell on my knees and cried in melancholy. My tears were crystalised by the freezing weather as they leaked through my foggy eyes. I can't understand why you decided to end things here, changed so suddenly, and became so cold.

I laid in the snow while curling into a ball, I was too numbed to move from my spot as you broke the news to me. This ending was colder than winter itself, I could feel my heart getting frozen in time, it was a suffocating experience as if I was dying slowly from the cold.

I imagined we would be having a winter wedding in the park's walkway with our friends and family, with the sun shining down on us and the birds singing a winter song. I imagined we would have a family together, telling our children the story of our love and how it blossomed like the flowers in spring.

I did not expect this love to end in the coldest of winter ....