A Kiss For Every Lifetime

Part 5: Distant Memory

His warm lips were still in mine when I opened my eyes and my heart skipped a beat. My hands were on his chest, feeling his beating heart underneath the fabrics of his suit. Our warm breath mingled together and I felt hot underneath my dress.

His arms were around me, trapping me in his warm embrace and my legs weakened underneath me but he held me back in my feet.

After a couple of minutes that seem to feel like centuries, he finally broke the kiss and I was now staring in his eyes, those eyes that entrapped me the moment I saw it. A small smile was drawn on his plum lips and I controlled the urge to dive towards him and have his lips on mine again.

A weird fuzzy feeling bubbled inside my chest and I hunch over the ground with my hand on my chest. I took a deep breath and run a finger on the skin, trying to ease the pain.

Everett was kneeling on the floor in front of me, talking but his words were merely a blur in my ears as everything changed right in front of my eyes. The night sky and the excited chatter of the people disappeared in a blink and was replaced by a bright sunny day and a hill with a tree surrounded by a field of flowers.

Everett disappeared as well so I stood alone, watching the beauty. Something or someone screamed my name and when I turn around, I saw myself standing beside the tree, holding up a rolled up paper which I assume was an old fashioned letter. Tears were streaming down her face and her hair was mess as if she run her hands on it frustratingly.

She was wearing a thin satin dress and a wooden slipper. She had a woolen jacket that belonged to a man draped on her shoulders. Her grip on the letter was strong, you can see how white her knuckles had turn and I'm surprised the paper hadn't rip.

I walk over my replica out curiosity and what my eyes met in that piece of paper, ripped my heart like one. I had no idea on what the hell was going on but I know that I must feel the pain as how the tears reflected what my replica felt.

I hunch over the ground and gripped the fabric above my chest as my heart thudded painfully.

Then I was back again in the party. Everett was still kneeling in front of me. His face was filled with worry. I stared at him and drifted to darkness.