Continued Silence

Twenty-two : till the end of the road

The next day:
15th May, 2018

Love isn't a thing that makes you perfect. It is a thing that makes you human and that's way more important. Love is everywhere like the blue sky surrounding us.
The precisely common thing between all of us is that we are searching for love. That's our purpose. To love and be loved.
Luckily, I had reached my destination.

It was like, as if, before, I'd spent most of my life in a big maze, trying to get out. Trying to figure out my way out. Until she came....
And the most important thing she told me that the maze couldn't ever be escaped. I realized that it was true, because after I met her, she made my life in the maze worth-living. She did not help me escape the maze. She just came in my life and showed me that it was possible to live your life even in the maze, because afterall, there was no way in, no way out.

I woke up as the sun was high up in the softness of sky. I went towards my window and looked at the puffy clouds, that were moving slowly forward and carelessly. When I was a kid, I used to dream of living in clouds and buildings mansions up there, riding sweet unicorns and eating cotton candy made from clouds, until I grew up and the innocence faded away. Ah childhood!
I made myself breakfast and went to her home.
On my way, I saw a park where many kids were playing. Their parents with them. I thought about their childhood when they used to go to the same park and play. I thought about all those people who had played there until they died. Then more and more kids filled the park and so on. The joys of the park never went away. The same stories were told over and over again. People die but the world moves on.

And sometimes, I would really fear that what if I died, and there wouldn't be anyone to remember that I existed?  That there was someone named "Daniel Steve" too, who fell in love with the most beautiful girl?
That was when I realised that it was fine, to let your story die with you.

I rang her doorbell and she opened it instantly. I spreaded my arms in the air as if the only thing I had ever known was to hug. She came in my warm arms as if the only thing she had ever known was being hugged.
After a moment, me, Grace and Harry sat in the t.v lounge to watch "One Tree Hill", which always made me cry.
Then Grace kissed on the top of Harry's head and said,
"I'll be back soon."

On our way to my apartment, I finally asked Grace,
"Who is Harry?"

                          xxxxx

Harry McGregor :

My mama used to be a beautiful young widdow, who'd just work enough to live through the day. Sometimes, I would get real sad, seeing her work all day. I had wished that I could become some famous mayor and buy my mama a beautiful house by the river. But that never happened.
My dad had died when I was nearly one, and since that day, mama had been on her own.

While I was watching "One Tree Hill" alone, while Daniel and Grace were outside, I looked at my shoes.
Mama used to tell me that you could always tell what a person had been through by looking at their shoes.

So my mama worked day and night and I got admission in the finest school on scholarship, until one day life happened.
Mama died in a car accident and my uncle took over the house and claimed that the property was his.
I couldn't bare to live with my pathetic uncle, so I ran away from the house one day.

I ended up on streets for two years, until Grace found me and adopted me, as if, she'd known me all my life.

Grace was something else. She always treated me as her little brother. I was so proud of what she was doing, not just for me, but others too.
She changed my life. I had never expected to live in a beautiful house.
Sometimes, I still missed mama, and knew that she would be proud of Grace too.