This is how it would be between us.<\/p>\n
On the day of our parting, I would think very little of it. I would wait with you for the boarding announcement of your flight. It won\u2019t matter that it has been held up for three hours. It won\u2019t matter because the airport terminal would revolve around us.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll mock the airline and give you ten silly reasons why I\u2019d rather walk than sit 30,000 feet up in a white and orange contraption. I\u2019ll mock the colour of your box as you wheel away into the back of the boarding queue and then I\u2019ll shout, \u201cOne day, I\u2019ll come find you\u201d.<\/p>\n
Our ceaseless back and forth, the joy of my every day, would attenuate. One day, I\u2019ll get a picture message from you. While I wait for it to download, I will wonder at what kind of ridiculousness you could possibly have found on the internet from your habitual scouring of it. The image would clear up to reveal a wedding invite. It will be yours.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou finally deceived someone into marrying you\u201d, I will remark with a coy-face emoji and wait for your signature, \u201cHehehehe\u201d reply.
\nOne regular night, I\u2019ll come up with the funniest \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 joke and pick up my phone to tell it to you. I\u2019ll fight the urge to call a married woman up at 9:49 pm. I will prevail against this urge.<\/p>\n
On an afternoon in August, my family would run into yours. My daughter would have your name, but your son won\u2019t have mine. I\u2019ll steal two glances as you walk away, hoping you would do the same. You won\u2019t.
\nOne evening, you\u2019ll come online to find R.I.P. next to my name. You will hurriedly open my page. You will find more of those. My funeral service would miss you, but not the interment. You will honour a decade-long promise, to be at the laying down of whichever one of us leaves here first. When you throw your handful of earth, you\u2019ll realise that being there matters, but only to you, for I won\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n
On a day, almost like any other, you\u2019ll finally be too lazy to breathe, and then the end will come.<\/p>\n
In the end, there will be no end. Life and love would continue, just not ours. And the marks that the love we shared would wait for the sands of time to erase them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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