Short Stories: Love

White Noise

When she was ten, she learnt the harsh truth about soul mates, they don't have one of the senses until they meet. She was one of the population who are deaf till they meet their soul mate, everything they hear becomes white noise. Even then, she had hoped that she would be able to hear something, her means of communication became writing and her parents encouraged this, delighted that their little girl was as talented as they hoped she would be.

She never touched the piano that her father plays nor does she look at her mother's violin. Her parents had found each other at an audition, unable to speak until their first words came out: 'I found you!' And they had become a world famous duo, playing music that had connected each other and hoping their child would be the same.

Instead they got a deaf one, who makes music through her writing. Words upon words, stories upon stories begin to pile up, each one better than the last until they can't help but push for her works to be published.

She's twenty years old when she finds an even harsher truth, apparently seeing even if it's not face-to-face counts as meeting them.

Her soul mate is a deaf flutist who rose to glory. As she watched with interest as the reporter asked him how he managed to play even while he's deaf he replied about something with vibrations and connecting his emotions with the pieces he plays. She could hear the score he played and she jumped with joy when she heard the soft tones of the flute.

Her heart sunk when she realized she had seen him through a tv. She realises that while she is accomplished and published, she's never been featured on tv because who cares about another author when there are other things?

She vows to write more and make a book series that would be so good, people wouldn't stop talking about it.

(She picks up her first instrument, the shining steel of the flute promised something she's always wanted. As soon as she plays, she learns that she's gained her parent's genius. She decides not to show this talent, wanting to be known for her writing first before her music.)

So she starts to write the best damned series (Fantasy-Action-Adventure, thrill the audience while telling a story) and names it 'To the End'.

It's a hit.

Her book kept on growing and growing and growing to point that fans are begging for the release of the second book. She smiles and indulges them, setting her publishing date to be November. She writes and writes until her fingers grow numb and her mind is obsessively planning the next chapter. Soon, she published a second, then a third and a fourth, her final book is planned to be the seventh.

By the fifth book, her name is in practically every household and when she walks outside, she can't help but smile as people talk about her books. She can feel that her time is almost there.

As she had expected, she is asked for her first interview with a well known television station, and she accepts.

The interviewer asks her the inevitable question, why did she write those books?

She doesn't bother beating about the bush and tells them with a wistful smile the reason. She tells them that she saw her soul mate on tv, how the soft sounds of the flute as the first thing she heard. She talks about how she wanted to get her name out there to be known and the interviewer sighs over how romantic it is. When asked for the name, she instead says a message.

She asks that her soul mate sees her and see how much she had worked for this. She tells the name.

She's twenty five when she learns the next harsh truth about soulmates, that they are not a guarantee for love. Her soul mate contacts her, storms at her and she learns to hate him. How his temper is short and his mind so closed, he's pompous and arrogant, nothing like the man who used to kindly smile at the camera.

She finishes the sixth and the seventh books as she had planned. Using the money to buy a home away from him and putting a restraining order on her soulmate. She continues as normal, moving on to write another book, this time naming it 'Star Shadow' and writing it as a reflection of her hopes and dreams being crushed and turning it into a reminder, to keep on forging through.

The people enjoyed it, speaking of how they laughed and cried with every character. They spoke of how it inspired them to rely on their own self to be happy or how it reminded them to enjoy what they had while it's still there.

Another interview, again they asked why she wrote the book.

She grins and tells them of how it's a reminder for herself as well and goes on to be honest, telling how she and her soulmate didn't end up together, how he had turned arrogant towards her and forced her into a gilded cage and how she wanted freedom.

The press ate it up and the man's reputation is destroyed. She continues as is and moves on.

She is invited to a convention, where famous writers give advice to those starting out. There she finds someone who rose to glory from the streets, a poet. They talk and talk throughout the day, finding that he didn't have a soulmate, having been born with all his senses. They enjoy their time together and promise to meet again soon.

His works, which often spoke out against cruelty and convinced people to care for the homeless soon also became a mix of those along with a sudden love struck plethora. He wrote sonnets and false love letters and she enjoyed reading them.

Her own works also added their own dose of romance, 'The Sunbeam Phenomenon' and 'With Love, the Wind' focused on a romance that seems so unlikely but works so well.

It's no surprise who the works were for.

They began to date and suddenly it was as if they were seeing stars for the first time. She revealed to him her ability to play the flute and he revealed his genius with the clarinet. Their music blending like their personalities, mixing and flowing like the change of day and night and night and day. They move together as if they are one and if that wasn't a direct representation of how they work, then shes' not sure what does anymore.

They became a secret duo that are known for writing. Their music is but a hobby that blends seamlessly together. They accidentally reveal this in a talent show for NaNoWriMo between writers, they had jokingly entered only for the world to learn of their joint talent.

Together they laughed until they cried when they learned they won.

The two continued to make a name together. As writing lovers who defied all odds, or as amazing writers with a legacy left in the world of writing. Their works reached new heights together until even the most uncaring knew their names.

In the end, they made a lasting mark in the world as the 'Lovers Who Went Against Destiny'. They died of old age, leaving behind their grandchildren who are already adults, the money they had earned went to charities and relatives who needed help.

In the heavens, the two of them smiled as they watched their own funeral, thousands of people gathered to attend and pay their respects.

Their bodies are buried together, as it should be.