How I Married My Bias

CHAPTER 23

I looked at the letter twice, looked at both sides of it. Nothing. Just an empty paper.

I think I began to cry again. All the emotions mixed up inside of me like a storm, eating me up., destroying me. I felt cheated.

I felt like all forces of the world doesn’t want me to be happy. I felt down. I felt broken, pained, used up, guilty, sorry, sad. I felt numb. I felt like I fainted, just floating in limbo.

And at that moment of weakness, at that moment of despair, a warm embrace meet me.

This embrace. This arms. This touch. This scent.

I looked up, my vision blurred by tears, a figure was in front of me.

He still looked at beautiful as the first time I saw him. He still had those deep eyes that resemble a starry night sky.

His hair was fixed in a way I used to know. He sat in front of me like a perfect illusion. A phantom in broad daylight.

I stared at him and he stared into me. It was definitely a dream, a virtual reality. Then he flashed a smile, the kind that makes his nose crinkle.

It was the same smile that pushed me into an abyss of inevitable depths.

“I missed you,” the illusion said.

And in that moment, I knew. It was really him. The real him. In front of me.

I burst into tears as I hugged him tight, tighter than any hugged I’ve ever made. And he does the same. I felt myself pushed closer to him. In this embrace, I would never want to leave.

Then he pulled away from it, holds both of my cheeks. He wiped my tears away with this thumb and his eyes were fixed on mine like there’s nothing else in the world but me.

I felt all the longing, the brokenness, the pain, the guilt, and sadness drained out of me – replaced by happiness, joy, completeness, consolation, love.

Then he leaned closer to me, closer than he’d ever gone before. And then in one split second, we filled the empty space between us, all the miles we’ve been apart and all the times we’ve been away.

In that very same spot, in each other’s arms, eyes closed, we shared our first kiss.