Hidden Love

A total silence in the room. I knew he has been listening to what I have been telling him all this time, though he didn’t show any reaction. His face looked as if carved in a stone. I kept waiting for him to speak but couldn’t bear the silence any longer. So I got up to leave the room. I almost reached the door when he at last spoke.

“Is that your final decision?”

I turned to look at him. Then I saw it. His face was full of pain. I felt the love I had for him almost thaw my frozen heart. A frozen heart as a result of his continuous indifference he showed me during the brief marriage. I thought I could make him love me, but I realized that I couldn’t make someone falling in love just because we love them.

I turned back to the door and said ‘Yes, that’s my final answer”

“Why?” he asked

“Because.. I love you” I told him without turning.

“You love me?” he asked. “Then why leave me at all?”

 I didn’t reply. So he strode back to me and turned me to face him. He still had his mask of indifference on his face. So it gave me the courage to shrug his hand off and run to the door. But before I left that study room, I told him.

“You don’t love me back”

I ran like all the bats of hell were after me. Tears were coming down. All my unhappiness coming out at last. I was at last inside the bedroom we shared and was about to close the door, when it was pushed. He stood there watching me. I never heard him coming after me. He then came to the room and grabbed me by my arms. His face now full of anguish. Well so was mine.

“Not love you back?” he asked. “What do you think I’ve been doing these last few months” and then pulled me back to him. I was shocked. I couldn’t speak, so I just stood staring at him with my tearful eyes.

Then I at last saw what I was seeking in his eyes. Eyes that held me spellbound the first time we met. it was love.

“ I love you my darling” he finally said. “And all these while I was waiting just for you to say those words to me” and he kissed me. The most wonderful kiss he has ever given me.