Word Count: 728
Summary: Trying to forget.
Disclaimer: I don't own The Big Bang Theory or the characters.
One drink.
He looks at her. She's not really there, he knows. She's somewhere else, somewhere where she's truly happy. Somewhere else. But he still stares. Her beautiful green eyes that made him melt, the way her voice sounded, her touch that made him weak to his knees. All vanished.
Another drink.
He remembers the phone call that changed it all. That phone call that broke his heart. The one that made him go over the speed limit. He couldn't see anything in front of him because of the tears, but he didn't care.
Next drink.
He remembers seeing her in that hospital bed, asking him who he was. He didn't have the courage to tell her he was her husband, the love of her life, or whatever. He didn't even say his name. He just smiled and told her to rest. And that was the last time he saw her.
Final drink.
He couldn't see anything in front of him anymore. The world was a little blurry, and he couldn't figure out if it was the tears or him being drunk. All he could see now was her. The way her eyes were empty, as if there was no longer any life in them. The way her voice sounded, it was no longer that melodic voice he loved. She wouldn't let him hold her hand, maybe because she didn't know who he was. To her, he was a stranger. To him, she was love.
He took his jacket and downed the remaining of that last drink of his before heading out. The owner already knew him, he was a regular. He knew that tomorrow those drinks would be paid. They always were.
Walking 'home', he found out that sometimes love can end. Happy endings aren't real. They are fantasies told to children, so that they think life is a fairytale. It isn't. Sometimes it's a horror story.
He saw her across the street, and this time she was truly there. She smiled, but he wasn't sure it was for him. He looked around for a moment, and when he looked to her again, she was standing in front of him.
Her hand was soft against his face as she caressed it. He had a beard, because he didn't care about it anymore. She was playing with it, softly. She wouldn't say a word, it was like she didn't know how to speak anymore.
They stood there for a long time, until he put his hands on her back like he did when they danced. She stopped playing with his beard, but kept her hand on his face. She stared into his dark brown eyes for a moment, and then their lips connected. At first, it was like she was once again discovering him. But as the kiss progressed, it was as if nothing had separated them. As if she remembered him, and their love story.
When they separated, he had a big smile on his face. She, on the other hand, was almost trying to understand the feeling running through her. It took a few seconds for her to smile too.
Looking away from his eyes, she said goodbye. He froze. She started to walk away, and he stood in the same place.
Only later, not much later, did he start to walk once again, but he couldn't find her anymore.
He closed his eyes, he couldn't get them to stay open anymore. In his head, the kiss was replaying. The way that her hand felt against his face, the way his hands fit in her back. The way her lips felt against his own.
The way her voice cracked as she said goodbye.
The way her face looked as that one, single tear fell.
He couldn't do it anymore. He needed to stop reliving those moments in his head, those moments where he was truly happy, those moments back when he didn't know that things would end sooner than he thought they would.
But she wasn't around anymore. She wasn't there to make more of those moments so that he wouldn't have to relive the same moments all the time.
And now, as his eyes are closed, and his mind wanders to back when things were simple, she watches him from afar, hoping that one day she remembers everything that he tries to forget every day.
The End
I'm back for another story! Just because I stopped watching (I'll watch it when it's over) doesn't mean that I stopped writing. I found some time so I decided to write this. I missed it…
Hope everyone likes it!