A Kiss ( #Wattys2016 )

XXIX.Velvet.

Six years later.

Its been six years since the high school graduation. One fine day after the graduation and before we started our university, my mom and Tyler's parents called us to have a 'talk'.

They didn't want us to move in together. According to them it was too soon for us to take responsibilities. They wanted us to first discover ourselves before jumping into something which we both would have not been able to manage.

Despite all the arguments, we agreed to them which turned out to be a right decision.

The college years were the most amazing years of my life. Sneaking into each others dorms, camping trips, Tyler even to took me to the lake house again.

After we got our degrees, I started working and training under my mom at city hospital. And Tyler joined his father's business.

Five months after training when Tyler took over his father's business and I took my mom's place as the head surgeon at the hospital our lives changed.

That year was the toughest phase of our lives. We moved in together.

Things are different now.

Tyler and I fight a lot. It's difficult not to. We get so less time with each other but somehow, we are holding up.

But I see Tyler so rarely now since he's stuck up in his business so often and I have to sometimes make double shifts at the hospital.

Over time, Tyler grows angry because we are not able give each other time and be we barely see each other though we 're living under the same roof.

This time it was different.

"Tyler you should have at least called !!" I yelled.

"I was so caught up in work, I didn't get time." He yelled back.

Tyler promised me that he would take me on a date and we would spend an evening together but yet again he stood me up. He never came. I waited for him for hours but he didn't even call. After endless calls and hours of waiting I went back home, he never came back home that night. And that was the height. I felt defeated and upset.

"This is not an excuse; I also have work." I argued.

"Don't over react April!"

"OVERREACT?? I am just saying that you should have called!" I scream at him.

"Fuck April! Don't shout!" He says flopping on the couch massaging his temple.

"You know what?! I am done! I am DONE!" I yelled and stormed out of there.

Suddenly I have tears streaming down my cheeks because this is the worst fight ever.

The air outside is cold tonight but it's more inviting than that pent house apartment at the moment. So, before I can gather myself together, my bags are packed and I am standing outside in this cold biting air.

I can still hear Tyler groaning and yelling in the hallway, yelling to himself now and my tears are freezing to my skin.

I am about to get in my car when he runs out the building and I am shocked to see him crying as well.

He wraps his arms around me, burying his head in my hair as he cries.

My hands move on their own accord wrapping them around his torso as I cry in his shoulder. We stand their wrapped in each others arms thinking about everything that is being happening.

Every relationship goes through struggles but only strong relationships get through them.

"I am sorry April, yell at me, hit me but just don't leave me. I am so sorry." He says pulling back.