A MAN'S SORROW CUTS DEEPER

Back in his arms...

Can enjoyed the feeling of satisfaction. To watch Sanem scramble around in search of something she denied having just the night before added to that feeling. It was as if he was watching Sanem from way back when. Her uncensored actions sparked his curiousity from the very beginning. She just did what she did. Said what she said. And now it gave Can another  proof she may still hold deep feelings for him.

Sanem could not hide her distress from the fact that her ring had gone missing. Excuse after excuse for her frantic actions, though they made no sense, came popping up in her head and her mouth, and her friends could not figure out what made her so jumpy on that sunny and pleasant morning. They were working on coming up with the name for her creams, but she herself seemed worried about something else. What could have been more important than her own labour of love? She would never admit to them what it was that was missing. She would never admit to any of them that she still had Can's ring. That it never left her sight...

Can watched her run around and could not help it and felt smug. His confidence, low in recent times, kept creeping up with each passing moment. The spark in his eye shone brighter. The smirk on his face planted itself permanently once it appeared the moment he saw Sanem's reaction when she realized the ring disappeared. Even the pep in his step seemed stronger than ever.

Can's friends realized that his gazes Sanem's way could no longer be mistaken for an occassional glance. One look at Sanem and reality seemed to hold no effect on him. No words reached his ears. His eyes only saw Sanem, and he could not help it. His heart called on him to go and check on her, to see if she could admit to him what it was that went missing. Of course he knew she would not give up and reveal that what was missing was his ring from her neck. She played all innocent, and again made no sense. And just as she had done so many times in the past, she lost her footing and landed right in his arms. Surprised by his luck, Can held on to her tight. She was back in his arms. A flashback of the past came into their minds. He held her by the cliff in Aqua in the same sweet embrace. Always sweet and caressing, never forced - and never denied. They remembered the embrace on the beach when they held on for their hearts. The embrace when she told him she loved him at his home, when she fully accepted her love for him then. The embrace when they climbed out of the pit from which he saved her, when they held on out of fear for her life. The embrace at the couples retreat during the morning exercises, when he gave in to his need to hold her once more. And that same evening when they danced to the melody of their hearts once again.

Later that day they sat by his table and spoke of the shoot for the commercial for her campaign. He could not help it and kept smiling on. The spark in his eyes reflected in hers. The charm of his witt reached right in to her soul. She could not help it that her logic was gone. Her thoughts made no sense, no sound connection at all. She said it was romantic, feeling deep inside just how intensely he looked at her. Then corrected herself in her nonsense Sanem way that the shoot should be romantic. Then she said it was hot, because his smile gave her chills. And again she had to correct herself and said she worried if the weather for the shoot would not be too hot. His smile only widened and he said it would be perfectly scorchingly hot, and everything might burn...

And then he realized she caught one little detail. One tiny new fact. Her necklace was missing, but he gained one more. He went with his instinct to hide the truth in plain sight, and placed his hand under his chin in a seemingly innocent gesture. He would not reveal he had the ring. Not yet, not at this time. He would enjoy the secret pull and hold he had over Sanem. He was unaware that just as she suffered from the loss of his ring, he would soon come to feel the same way about the loss of her scarf...