They walked together on the open street until they reached a crossroad. The road was desolated. Not even a single soul was to be seen at this point of night. He looked at her and smiled as if to say they both have reached their destination. And that now it was time to say good-bye. Suddenly he felt a deja vu. As if this same moment has already passed between the two of them. Maybe in a different lifetime. She looked into his gleaming eyes. She felt as if his eyes were talking to her. Saying something. But what? She was clueless about what to do next right when he started to walk away without saying nothing.
"You should have stayed for some more time", she said to a leaving him.
" I wish I'd have stayed back" he turned and said, and then added "I wish I'd have stayed and never left. I wish you would have called my name and stopped me like you did now. I wish we were together when we could have." His words went into a spree as he kept on blurting one thing after another "I wish we were lovers then rather than strangers now... I wish I'd have stayed and not lost you forever"
And with those last words he turned back and his eyes opened just to wake up in his dark empty room...
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