Rewriting Us

They say time heals everything.

But time has done nothing to the wound I gave myself.

I still remember the last time I saw her - at our spot, the little tea stall by the seaside cliff. Her eyes filled with questions I never answered. Her silence louder than my betrayal. She stood there, wearing the bracelet I gave her, unaware I was about to break her heart in ways she never deserved.

I left her.
I left Riddhima to marry someone else.

For reasons I thought were right.
For reasons she could never understand.

And in leaving, I buried the only part of me that was ever alive - Riddhima.

But fate is cruel.

It didn't just punish me with her absence. It punished me by keeping her alive... but erasing me from her life.

She jumped. She fell. She almost died.

But she lived.

And now... she doesn't remember my name.
She looks at me with the eyes of a stranger - the same eyes that once held galaxies just for me.

And I?
I live every day in the wreckage of my own choices.
A king in glass walls, surrounded by everything - except the only thing that ever mattered.

This time, I won't stop.
I'll fight every memory she lost, every wall she builds, and every piece of pain I caused.

Because I lost her once.

I won't lose her again.

Not even if I have to make her fall in love with me all over again.