The
night before my depature, I had beers with David and Mauryn and sure enough
they hit it of well. David and Mauryn both have similar views about life and
souls. And I guess if anyone was to say how auras click... this was one of that
instances.
We
drank and talked and laughed all night. There were tears, Mauryn hugging me
telling me not to leave just yet. And the next moment she was already making
plans to come visit me at my home town.
David
just sat there drinking his beer and making jokes all the time. I caught him
looking at me with watchful eyes a couple of times. Once when Mauryn was in the
toilet I asked him why he kept looking at me that way.
“Bella,
remember once I told u how beautiful ur smile is? That time you were careful
about it.. and tonight you can’t stop smiling and you are glowing and I just
can’t stop staring at that beauty.”
I felt
my face hotter. His eyes staring into mine was soft, caring, fatherly like. I
realized that this past month, David had been the father figure i had always
needed, the father i never had.
My eyes
got misty, before a tear could drop, i wiped it off. David carresed my hair and
said, “You have come a long way Bella, you have filled my heart and cheered my
soul. I will miss you dearly, but it is time you went home.” He smiled
“I...”
my lips quivered.
“Thank you...” I muttered softly. That was the only thing i could say, where in
all honesty, i wanted to thank him for my new life. I wanted to let him know,
he was the one who cheered my soul, who placed the smile on my face, who gave
me wings. But thank you was all i could muster, and i guess that was enough for
him.
When
Mauryn came back from the toilet, i told her all about the box of candies. I
thought she would ask if she could try one, to my surprise she smiled and said
“you need that one box of reasons once in a while, I sure as hell had mine”
Whatever
lessons Mauryn had learn in whatever way, I’m sure that was why she was who she
was. I finally understood why it was easy to be around her, perhaps at a time
she was once like me.
Mauryn
suggested we move and continue destroying our liver, David bailed. Before he
left, he asked me if i had time before my flight tomorrow to meet him, i had.
So we arranged to meet in our place the next morning.
Mauryn
took me to one of her places. A bar somewhere in a place where you would not
think a bar would exist with name as funny as “Here” or “Not-Closed” or like
this one called “Vices”. She has all these people she hangs out with who are
either musicians, bar owners or just plain slackers trying to be artists. But
they are a bunch of cool people to hang out with and I always feel good when I
meet them. And like always, we bumped into one of her groups of friends at
Vices.
We met
James, Mauryn’s boy friend (or so i thought), but there was just awkward hi’s
and we sat further away from where he was. Later on I saw that he was with
another girl, and i was sure it was a date. I wanted to ask Mauryn about it,
but it just didn’t feel right. Until she noticed i was giving James dirty
looks.
“We
broke up” Mauryn said
“When?
You were still together last weekend.”
She
laughed, “Trying to fix what was broken was more like it” she said.
“Why?”
“Sometimes,
things just don’t work out... no matter how much you want it to work out. Even
when you try as hard as you might, sometimes things just don’t go the way you
want them to.” There was a slight sadness in her eyes.
“Are
you okay? We can move somewhere else.” I offered
“No,
I’m fine. We almost never know the reason but i have always believed, things
are exactly the way they need to be.”
“I am
always amazed how positive you can be, and always cheerful.”
“Let me
let you in a secret, everything that happens, every incidence in our lives,
they are like the two sides of a coin. They have a negative side, which we and
most people give our attention to, and the positive side, which we tend to
forget. But if you wake up every morning thinking ‘i will only see the positive
of everything’ and you actually focus on the positive outcome of everything,
then i tell you, life gets better and easier and lighter.”
“When
did you become this wise?”
“When i
met my ‘David’” she winked.
