City Lights
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  • Parts 12
  • Time 2h 33m
Ongoing, First published Feb 19, 2016
"Why do you love city lights that much?"
His question took me back to reality. He is not a man that always appears in my dream every night. He is real, sitting next to me in our favourite spot on the roof top of a building at 3 am in the morning. Looking at the city lights and conversing about the universe like we are some kind of observers.

"If I tell you my reasons, will you tell me yours?" I replied

"Okay let us share it then". he let out his usual smile that he always wears which could spin my head until i almost couldn't think.

"I love it because it calms me down. It never complains whenever I spill out my problems, It promises me to light up in the night as an exchange to my entire darkest daylight". 
I did not realize I smiled widely as I revealed to him. "Now tell me yours"

"It's nothing poetic like yours. It is simply because the only girl whose smile could erase my screwed up life loves it that much"

Suddenly those words made me fall for him.
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