She missed her Leo dearly.
Holding his memories day and night
was all she could manage without him,
his whereabouts remaining unknown
ever since their chemistry class had ended
.
Her eyes searched for him in every crowd,
yet he was nowhere to be found,
having vanished from the face of the earth like a phantom.
With the turning of the seasons,
her final quarter arrived.
Perhaps it was written by the Divine
that their paths would cross once more.
He was taking the same microbiology class as she was.
Call it coincidence or destiny,
they found themselves sharing a laboratory once again.
Only this time,
they chose different partners
.
After all,
he was the only soulmate she had ever known.
She wanted to break every guarded rule with him,
yet he remained distant and walled off.
Only he truly knew
what shadows he hid within his complex mind.
They sat together through the lectures,
rode the bus home side by side,
and walked through the ordinary hours,
where the rest of the world simply dissolved away
.
Then came the day of the final exam.
The professor asked him to move to a different seat.
She refused to accept the separation.
Without a second thought,
she followed him across the room,
making the entire class erupt in laughter.
She had no idea of the turmoil within his mind.
After what felt like a brief eternity,
he turned in his paper and quietly left the classroom
without looking back,
without a final goodbye
.
Perhaps, deep within his guarded heart,
He knew
his butterfly was about to fly away forever.
Reality came crashing down upon him,
and the thought of losing her completely
became an unbearable weight
He struggled fiercely
to keep the lid on his emotions.
He was a Leo,
the proud king of his own domain.
How could he ever reveal such raw vulnerability?
So he chose absolute, ironclad self-control.
He fled the room early,
leaving her staring after him in stunned silence.
Little did she know
that his cold and abrupt departure
was merely a shield
for the storm raging within.
The weight of that final moment
pressed heavily upon his heart.
Perhaps, somewhere deep within,
he knew this was the end
Paralyzed by emotions too vast to express,
he tried to master them through sheer force of will,
retreating into his armor
because he dared not say goodbye.
Witnessing his sudden departure,
she was plunged into a quiet, endless sorrow.
Her shining Vega star disappeared beyond her reach,
leaving her beneath an empty sky,
with only memories to carry
through the rest of her life.
Their bond was destined to end in tragedy,
yet she carries his sweetest memories within her broken heart.
They became her quiet reason to keep going,
a fragile light reminding her
that love once touched her soul.
He was more than just a love she lost;
he was the soulmate she believed was sent by God,
a beautiful chapter written into her destiny.
Arshia Sultana
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