Finding The Lost Heart

Conjugation

10:00 pm
San Francisco

He came....Mark..my bestfriend, we grew up together, together we won together we failed, Mark was everything to me..my bestfriend and a part of my family. We were childhood friends, when Mark was ten his foster parents left him on streets of San Francisco and disappeared since then mark stayed with me at the orphanage. I was astonished to see mark at the police station.... assuming that he might be having some other work at the police station, I lost my hope of reuniting with mark.
Five months ago, I and mark had a fight because of Sally..he tried to show me who she really was..but I was a complete moron, I stood for Sally and fought with mark.His caprices made me think of the situations he was going through, I thought it was because of Kath or maybe because of me...he was blaming Sally,I tried to keep it cool because I knew Kath's disappearance was a big hit for Mark..I knew his condition...I kept on asking him that why was he blaming Sally...why was he asking me to leave her.. but he didn't answer. He kept on telling me to leave Sally, Sally was there... watching us quarreling with each other... faking around that she was hurt.. when Mark called her a whore..she started crying..tears started rolling down her cheeks and I thought they were real without any second thought I punched mark, soon both of us were into a fight until Nina, Brandon and Chris arrived and stopped us. Nina, Chris and Brandon are my bestfriends too. They took mark and went off.. neither of them talked to me but their eyes conveyed their dispair.
           I had many questions regarding Mark's behaviour and wanted to know the reason but didn't had any hope of getting any answer in return.
Since that day I didn't talk to mark, rest of them were in contact with me but not the way, how we used to be earlier.
                   Since that day I saw mark today, my eyes sparkled by seeing my bestfriend. I thought he wasn't here for me until one of the cop came to me and got me out of the jail. I was happy, relieved but I felt guilty, I had failed to understand true meaning of friendship, when Mark needed me the most...I fought with him, I broke his trust.. I broke our friendship that day.
I didn't know what to do because that day Sally was constantly distracting me from thinking anything regarding that situation. She made me hate mark and I listened to her because I loved her alot and blindly trusted her. I regret listening to her.. letting her make my decisions.
My deeds made my life miserable. It was hard for me to face mark. We stood in front of each other, facing towards the ground I remained quite, when Mark broke the ice and said," Hey man! Be a sport, you know it very well, whatever the situation is or however you react upon it..your Bestfriend would be always there for you... waiting for you to come back with a smile on his face", and hugged me. I felt happy, the lost hope of regaining our friendship came to life. He thanked the cops for releasing me and informing him about my condition. Even I thanked them for searching my wallet and dialling up Mark's number because of them I got mark back.
                     On our way towards the parking lot, I told him everything about Sally...he said he knew about it and had tried to make me understand her true identity. I questioned him for not telling me the reason. He said , he wanted to but it would have hurt me.. moreover he didn't had any proof against Sally.

              Proofs??!! I asked him if he had any now. He said, he had proofs and was about to show me those proofs next week. I apologized him for everything and he instantly forgave me..It was not the clean shaved mark I knew, this mark was way more different than him..this one had a moustache, beard and from checks shirt he had transformed to the plain ones. Change was good but I missed the old one who would have fought with me because I said sorry because according to him bestfriends never apologize. Way back home, I kept on thinking all the wrong decisions I made in my life..it was hard to believe that Sally was one of them. I was surrounded by sadness, I wanted to come out of it , but all the efforts were in vain. Atleast I knew one thing I wasn't alone, mark was there for me.
He tried his best to cheer me , brought me my favourite cheese burger along with some other snacks and handed me some beer, turned on my favourite song and we were set off towards my home. Reaching home he served the food for me but I refused because I didn't felt like eating anything, we talked for a while about how our lives changed in past five months, we talked about kath.. which was a very sensitive topic for both of us...Kath wasn't his biological sister..she was a kind of sister he never had but ever wanted..he told me about her disappearance which was still a mystery to be solved..they searched for her everywhere but none of them found Kath. We kept on talking..old days were back..we laughed on somethings..we shared griefs on somethings.

                          It was four a.m. when Mark realised that we kept on talking for the whole night and I didn't got any chance to rest. I told him..how glad I was to talk to him and missed those old days. He said even he was happy to get his bestfriend back. I asked him regarding the proofs against Sally as I was curious to know Sally's dark secrets. He had those proofs at his house since he lived few blocks away from mine, he said he would get those proofs for me till seven am as he had some errands to run before getting those proofs to me. Before leaving he instructed me to    take rest and finish my food and went away.

And now here I am, lying on my couch, again lost in the world of darkness and thinking about Kath...