The End

She sat there motionless, waves of the restless blue sea came lashing at the beach. She stared into oblivion; the unending blue waters gave her a strange feeling; something was missing. Pathos of the past was visible in her deep black eyes, her smile had faded and her tears had dried up. She had been tied up in a complex mixture of her feelings, her emotions and herself. A void, she felt, had been creeping since that day. It wasn’t her fault, she remembered. It was the same sunny day on the very same beach where she had stood her hands folded, once again, staring into eternity: the same blue waters. Sun was shining with all its grace, the flowers were fresh and the aroma of early evening on a beach still lingered in her thoughts, a perfect spring day: she had thought.

She could still feel her delicate feet sauntering on the soft moist sand, her hair was tied into an elegant bun, and the frills of her dress were swaying to the tunes of the wind. The dulcet melodies of the restive sea were firmly embedded in her mind; no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t manage to forget that day. That fateful evening which had changed her perception of life that lay ahead her.

He walked down to the cliff with all his charisma and graces, his demure personality was one thing dying for, he walked beside the sand castle she had made, and came nearer. He looked into her eyes, smiled to her innocence and surrendered. He came nearer and suddenly turned away hesitantly
‘I’m sorry; I cannot be what you want me to be… I just can’t be your dream. Even the words sound unreal. Do you remember how we had dreamed of the life that we would spend together? Jane, I can not. Please forgive me. I have to go.’

If anything that mattered to Jane after what she had lost in the years gone, it was him.
He had been everything to her… everything. She couldn’t think of parting with him, he was someone she had been waiting all along. Every tear that she had shed for an unseen wonderful stranger it was him. How could he leave her like that? She questioned herself, her existence, him and her God.
There was no answer, she knew, the fear that had lingered in her since the day she had met him had come true. She couldn’t believe herself. All the times that they had spent together were swirling in front of her eyes when a tear burned her cheek…

She couldn’t speak, words disappeared from her mind. She was blank; emotionless she stood there like a monument which had been sculpted entirely out of the thin, unpredictable sand. She stared at him while the water wet her feet bringing her back from the dream she was living in and making her see that, he wouldn’t stay.
‘Why?’ she finally spoke… the cold air irritated her as she turned to gaze, once again into eternity.
He bowed her head still holding her tight by shoulders. He knew he had no answer; it was fate that had brought them together and the same that would part them. He stole a sight from her eyes, his heart racing fast, and mumbled ‘I… am sorry’

She looked at him with shock and disappointment ‘why?’ she spoke, losing her voice somewhere between the real and the unreal.
‘How could you? Why are you leaving me?’ she wept like a child waiting for a kind word, a hug... And love.

He let go of her, turned to the other side and walked back to the cliff. She knelt down beside the sand castle, watched him going back to where he had come from and when he disappeared she looked again at her sand castle. It had been swept away by the sea. She knew he had left her alone and incomplete.