the space

They had been a perfect couple for quite a while. The heavens must have created them for each other.

But one day, Janus just left without goodbye. He left Rizza not even saying a single word. He was nowhere to be found.

Almost everyday, she waited for him to call or send a message. She had gone weary. She had gone tired. Then one Saturday evening, an unexpected rendezvous happened to them. In a party of a common friend who got married, they were both there, not knowing that they could still see each other. 

When Rizza was alone in the garden sitting on a porch drinking a glass of wine, Janus was caught standing at the back of her. He did not know what to say at first. Then a hesitant 'hi!' came out of his mouth. Rizza turned her head at the back and to her surprise, she saw him.

Rizza just couldn't stop from crying. When Janus tried to speak, this was all what Rizza had told him that almost turned the festive into a dark night.

"I had tried to live for a few days as if I have never met you then you are here again trying to get the space you once had before you left without a trace. I had already left that space so far away since I have started to tread this way I have been into right now."

She walked away, far and unseen. Janus wanted to chase after her but it was too late. She quickly vanished from the crowd and finally out of the scene.