Running away always isn't a solution but sometimes it brings more outstanding moments.
She looked up to face him. He was calling her to come upstairs. There was something he wanted to say to her on the last day of his school. On the very moment a hope for something pure enlightened in her heart. She didn't believe "Are you calling me?"
"Yes" he whispered that stirred her heart.
She was very happy and in a blink happiness faded. She saw his friends idling around him. She thought to herself 'Why is he calling me alone when he is standing with the group? Wanna make fun of me again? Or any teacher is calling ?' As straight A student she dig in the thoughts that doesn't even matter. She was afraid of getting embarrassed to desire for something she can't have. She was scared what if her hope turned out to be a mere mirage in a dry desert. She ran away and didn't confronted him in farewell party. She was running away from him and his thoughts with tears in her eyes . She was a coward . And also, She wanted to keep all sweet memories of them without any bitterness. After all she still had two years to leave that college whose every corridor is full of his memories.
Two years are passed. She was standing there on the same place and same occasion where he was standing two years ago in farewell party. She was saying goodbye to all her past. She buried her puppy love months ago. But when she was paying her respect and condolences to past, it came alive again. It walked straight towards her as if asking were you true or not? Those reflecting brown eyes are staring at her, there stood the boy, she loved two years ago but he became a man now, only in interval of two years. 'Is there something wrong with this water? better put it back don't wanna get scolded by dad .' She started walking past him but he blocked her by his arm . She knocked on his arm and came back into reality . He was really there. The arm she wanted to hold for eternities in her time of despairs was really there. He took her both shoulders unexpectedly and hugger her. It made her heart flutter. She didn't hug him back not because she doesn't wanted to but because deep down in her heart she is still a coward. She tilted her head on his chest, inhaled his scent and fog on the memories moved away. She relived the past in 5 minutes. He used to nag her to wear coat in winters and not to show off. He was the one who teased her the most . And only he, made her feel relaxed. One memory was enough to fall in love with him again.
"Hey Junior I missed you" these words with his voice made her come back in present. She moved back and moved the left corner of her lips upwards "Hey senior." She doesn't know what to say to him now. "I will be back after putting that glass back there" she said while pointing to a table far away. Yeah she wanted to run away again ignoring her feelings. He grasped her hands and hugged her again but this time tightly. "If you love to run so much let's enroll you in upcoming marathon event in city. But now I am not letting you go.Dear silly, I love you....." Glass in her hands smashed on the ground. Was she dreaming? He saw shocking expression of her. "Yes I love you and I know you love me too. Two years ago I let you go because my brain told me to settle my career and to let you complete your studies. But now it's completed and there is no reason to let you run away from me." Her hands automatically got on his back . She hugged him. She was now sure that it was not her puppy love it was her first love. She whispered in his ears "Yes you are right I love running and now I won't run away from you but will run into your arms"
