There's a Storm in Heaven
I stood there for hours.
Just staring at her prone form as she laid on the bed through heavy lidded eyes. Heart pounding, I silently willed for her to wake. Time was painfully, agonizingly slow. The clock ticked by in that excruciatingly steady and constant pace. It was driving me insane. Please wake up, just wake up I crooned. Only the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest soothed me chaotic soul. I know not just how many hours, how many days it had been. But I stayed rooted to that spot. Time was irrelevant. Only her. He closed his eyes and breathed. Only her.
Then the room came alive and her eyes fluttered open softly. But she did not move, and only stared listlessly up at the ceiling. I frantically tried to read her expression. Did she remember? Or had she forgotten everything that had happened? I prayed to God she had. I didn't know I had been holding my breath until I gasped in surprise, and my hazy vision suddenly became strikingly clear. I watched as tears suddenly blossomed and pooled in her eyes until they overflowed. She blinked once, twice, her long eyelashes fluttering ever so gracefully. Still there was no change in her blank expression. But I knew. I knew then that she remembered everything, every last painful detail of what had taken place over the last few weeks. And without my noticing, bitter tears pooled in my own eyes.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. She was supposed to find peace.
She turned her head and her tear stained gaze met mine.
I never knew such sorrow as in that moment.
And it was that unspeakable, overwhelming sadness that forged an unbreakable bond between us. It was as though we were bound by an iron chain, linked together by the fate's cruel hands. She didn't have to utter a single word for me to understand. Her trembling lips never moved, but I heard her voice in my head as clear as day when she finally broke down into outright sobs.
"I really did love him."
My grip on her hand reflexively tightened as I bowed my head, back hunched, foreheads touching. It wasn't fair I thought. None of this was fair.
I forcefully swallowed the lump forming in the back of my throat. "He knows." I choked out.
Our worlds were covered in rain that stormy night.
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