"Til we met"

"Yesterday is history, today is a gift, and tomorrow is a mystery.

Live each day as though it were your last, with the things that are truly going to last."

I looked at the book for a long time.

The words formed a pen picture in my mind's eye reflecting the harshness of realities that I was going through...

The world seemed like a huge cage from which the bird of love had flown away deserting my heart and filling my eyes with the moistures of eternity.

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I looked at the calendar, the date changed between 28th and 30th of May...

Many greetings flashed on my mobile's screen...

I shuffled through them and I turned off my mobile phone..

I just turned on the stereo and I decided to retire for the night...

But...

The words of the song brought tears into my eyes.. :(

I started weeping and in very act fell asleep...

......

"Darren!! Wake up!!"

A lovely voice broke through...

I pushed to open my tear-filled eyelids...

I saw one of the most beautiful face in the world...

I can't believe that she was here..

She was the person I wanted to see the most..

My Cassy...

The apple of my eye...

I got up slowly... The vibrant cries of the children and the cool green grass brought me back to senses...

"Hey! Sleeping Beauty! Is your dream over?" she asked.

"Oh yeah.. By the way, why is your nose flushed red?" I added.

"A butterfly stopped by my nose and its pollen dusted wings made me sneeze!" she screamed... and she looks so cute.

I tried my best to suppress my laughter but in the end, I could not help myself..

"HAHAHAHAHAH! That was..! uhmmm.. HAHAHA!" I laughed out loud... :D

Cassy gave a stern look at me and her smile vanished from her lips.

Taking guard of the situation, I immediately pulled her towards me and I kissed her lips passionately...

This very act turned her into red tomato, and she held me tighter as if drawing out more warmth from me.

"Darren, Don't you think we should go for a walk?" she asked..

"I think we have become the center of attraction over here amongst the children." She added.

I nodded in acceptance and we got up from the shade and took the long winding road down the small hill beside the lake.

She took my hand and began to sing a song...

"The day we met,
Frozen I held my breath
Right from the start
I knew that I'd found a home for my heart...
... beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave?
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more"

She sang for a long time...

I listened to the sweet melody of her voice filling the environment, touching the strings of my heart into a symphony of its own.

We took an uncertain stop by the lake where we saw two swans wadding together in the calm waters.

I hold her two hands and sang her a song...

"In my dreams
I'll always see you soar
Above the sky
In my heart
There will always be a place
For you for all my life
I'll keep a part
Of you with me
And everywhere I am
There you'll be
And everywhere I am
There you'll be

Well you showed me
How it feels
To feel the sky
Within my reach
And I always
Will remember all
The strength you
Gave to me
Your love made me
Make it through
Oh, I owe so much to you
You were right there for me."

Then tears started to flow from my eyes...

I can't control my emotions...

She wiped my tears and gave me smile, the sweetest smile which is full of love and care.

"You know what Darren, since the days I met you, I've fallen deeply in love with you. There are no words to express the feeling that I felt in my heart when the day you came into my life, and now you make every day so special. You add a new meaning, a new chapter to my book of life. You are the greatest gift God given to me. I want to spend my life with you and when the time comes die lovingly in your arms..."

There were tears in her eyes while saying those words to me...

She hugged me as if it was the last hug of her life...

"Cassy, I will never leave you no matter what... I love you more than anything else... My happiness is to be with you forever."

She looked at me with those moist eyes and out of the blue produced a rose from her bag...

"Darren, this is a token of our love..." she said.

I took the rose from her and replied...

"It might be a simple rose but it's worth more than anything else. Thank you my love."

"Our love will be eternity...Till death do us part my Darren..."

I could see tears in her eyes and she began to fade away...

I struggled to reach her hand but I can't...

I just can't...

Everything was illuminated in a flash...

I was in my room and a blanket had fallen off from my bed...

Reality hits me and I finally realized that I was just dreaming...

Cassy was no longer alive...

But as she was promised she visited me on my birthday...

Drop of tears rolled down my eyes.

When I looked on my pillow, there was the best gift of my life...

In the white cover carefully kept was a beautiful rose with a small note attached to it...

I reached for it and opened it then I read it...

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE... 'TIL WE MET ANOTHER DAY... I LOVE YOU AND I WILL ALWAYS BE...

-CASSY"