Forbidden Love

It was one of those moments that Hollywood usually describes as special.

At first there was nothing, then there were two eyes staring at each other.

From two opposite sides of the road.

He was with a girl on the other side.

She was with a man on the other side.

At first, it was just a glance.

Then as they waited for a vehicle to get to their destinations, it grew to a long stare.

Three secs first, then five next.

A quick glance here, a longer there.

At last they both departed to their destinations.

But that was a stare to last a lifetime...

A stare that would haunt two dreams.

Causing sleepless nights.

It was an unholy alliance.

A feeling that was forbidden in the eyes of the society and the law.

For they belonged to others.

Not themselves...

It would be months later on that same spot that they would meet again.

Today, the gods favored and smiled on them.

They were untethered to no one but their fate in their hands.

A flicker of recognition, eyes widened in pleasant shock, and then a smile.

Finally, fate has locked dreams...quickly he crossed the road.

And for the third time in his life, crossing the road was the biggest achievement in 30 years.

The first was the first time he jumped the gutter as a child, maybe  5.

The second, was the first time he crossed the road as a child, maybe 7.

Now, crossing the road to meet a face he saw just once, but once enough to last a lifetime...as a man, this was everything.

''Hi,'' he smiled at her

''Hello'' she smiled back

Their eyes did the talking for them.

Numbers were exchanged and hands were locked in friendship and infatuation.

It was a love that was cursed.

But not by the gods.

So it didn't matter.

Two weeks later, it was the beginning of a romance that will break hearts, cause untold pain and eventually lead to blood being spilled.

But not their hearts

Not their pain

And, definitely not their blood.

So it didn't matter she was married.

It didn't matter he was engaged.

It didn't matter that they were both forbidden to fall in love.

All that mattered was the magic of two people meeting and falling in love at first sight, while involved with two other people.

They didn't know, if they had a future

They didn't care if it might end tomorrow

Or span a lifetime

Who are they to know such things

Mere mortals accomplishing what the celestial beings could never accomplish...falling in love.

But one thing they did know was this, as long as their heart still yearns and the fire in their loins still burns, they were gonna savor this magic.

If it kills them and their humanity.

Then by God, they will willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of this forbidden love.

For in their mortality, they were greater than immortality.



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