And when they met their bodies decided to do what their souls were meant to. Their lips melted into each other evoking the suppressed emotions that had been longing to express themselves. In the half shadows of the darkness, their fingers merged into the crevices between the fingers of each other's hands and thus intertwined their heart beats. His pulse began flowing in her veins as their minds identified every moment of this virgin experience with striking familiarity as if these figments of time had been in the eon forever. 

His fingers slid all over the contours of her graceful form with smoothness and studied intent. The sensations that emerged traveled both ways to both hearts piercing them with pangs of ecstasy. In a mellow moment of love, she wrapped her arms around his back and pressed down her head on his bare chest and acknowledged the beat of his heart which seemed to echo her name. Words seldom pursued from their lips but sighs of pleasure occasionally interfered with the harmony that fluidly filled the air. With each caress their skins made, with each flicker their tongues made on each other's bodies their hearts professed undying love.

Every time her hands caressed his manhood he felt the purity of her love flooding in him. Every dent he made on her feminine tenderness he silently promised his affection for her...for as long as he would live...Sometimes they both became still and then she locked her mesmerizing eyes on his inebriated teary eyes drawing out every ounce of pain and guilt, replacing it with her boundless love.

Their bodies kept anticipating every movement and responded with a sense of lucid fidelity and honesty as they traversed improbable universes where timid stars outshone the mighty harsh suns, staying afloat on incessant streams of azure drops that flowed through pristine skies and across whiffs of magical fragrance of first blooms..moving towards a blissful culmination dripping with satiety and peaceful completeness.    

It was all a dream and like ever it was weaved to break. It did. It was too perfect to last. But this was their dream and just like their relationship it had something which defied an end. Their dream fulfilled itself in their hearts and filled their hearts with this incomplete dream. That is how it had always been..flawfully incomplete and yet assuringly perfect. Reaffirming like Life.

Fate like always was just round the corner of those hours waiting to take them apart but they knew it wouldn't ever really succeed. There will always be that little light they planted in each other's souls..which playfully befriended, burnt with consuming passion, shone with ardent love, toiled in heart break, wept in estrangement and now promised to guide their separated paths.  

♪ ♫ ...Like the sunshine ♫

He thrust out his finger through the rolled down glasses of the window as if playfully poking an invisible someone in the air. his feeble finger slashing through the speeding air. The chill in the air was back ... that time of the year was back.

The 'City of joy' was unnervingly silent at that deathly hour of the night. The city's Victorian streets sans the usual bustle and the notorious traffic was a breeze for the taxi driver. In the hope to pack up for the day the driver veered through the empty roads as fast as he could.

The mood at the back seat of the taxi was in stark contrast. He was unhurried now. A sense of unfulfillment had become complete within him. His journey went on but there was no destination in mind any longer.

As the rickety taxi's speedometer clocked 100 kms an hour, light posts along the smoggy streets whizzed back at tremendous speeds. Painful memories , however, swept slowly across his mind. The unperturbed, nonplussed expression on his face hardly changed. The stench of ammonia waft across the region which meant close he was drawing close to the end of his ride. The smell was pungent enough to make even the callous taxi man flinch in disgust but strangely didn't elicit even the slightest repulse from him.The booze had dampened his senses or maybe he was just too lost in his preoccupations. 

The sleepy driver, swerved alarmingly on a turn that was supposed to lead them towards the destination. Lost in his streaming thoughts he was oblivious of the fact that the driver had failed to negotiate the sharp turn and the taxi toppled like a beast off balance. For a few excruciating moments he saw the gravelled road and the dispersed halo of the street lamps alternately in the tumbling unevenness of the yellow glow cast by the rolling car's headlights until the car frictioned to a deadening halt.

As the rays of the following morning swept away the last remains of the dark night, the cops stood at the cordoned site of the crash. The passenger at the back seat had suffered a broken neck and could not sustain the injury. From within the mangled body of the taxi, from the back seat, among other things was retrieved a burnt bouquet of trampled lilies with a small note on it saying "Happy Anniversary".     

 

8:55 PM

Her : Can I ask you something ? (sobbing)
Him : Hmm 
Her : will you love me forever ?
Him  : (silence)
Her : (after prolonged silence) Please reply
Him : Yes
Her : (after brief silence) Hmm
Him : Can I ask you something ?(sobbing and hesitant)
Her : Hmm... 
Him : Will you be mine forever ?
Her : (silence)
Him : hmm.... (silence follows)