Stay...( Till the sun shines)

"It's okay to cry at times when you miss me"

He smiled while all she could do was simply fall in the circle of adoration yet again. The screen illuminated in front of her as she wiped her tears of longing named all after one person in her life. Jake Wellington.

"You know I have waited long enough for meeting you right? It's been months"

He smirked, his signature smile and before he even moved his lips she knew what he would answer. Yet, she waited, precisely to hear it coming from him, she loved every little ebbs that his voice took while he said that line.

"You know I love you? I love you more than my words could describe. We will surely be together next month, I promise"

She believed it. Just like people believed how there was someone they worshipped, who heard their prayers. She believed him and all she needed was that little assurance that she knew always kept her going no matter what.

Time passed away like sand slipping off the grip. Seasons changed and soon his one month turned to into something that never came.

It slowly started with less communication, low on their love and yet she knew how he was the one. She knew something was surely taking a wrong turn when one fine night she heard his voice shivering, shaking like he was holding onto something too deep within himself.

"What's wrong? I...I mean I know life is hectic but at least we should talk it out, isn't it?"

"Ah...nothing just work pressure" his same smile glistening through the screen made her believe his words once again.

And maybe that's the moment she will regret later, but right now she still believed him. She believed him when he said everything was fine and it was just work that kept him occupied. She believed that the slight shaky voice was all because of his stress but never in her dreams did she think about what happened in the blink of an eye.

It was a cold evening when she got that call she detests the most even to this day. It was around late evening when her phone rang with his number, which in itself was something that was odd, but letting her thoughts sit back somewhere she attended it with a smile that was just crumpled up and was soon replaced with tears that didn't know how to stop even after it had been a year now.

She remembers how she rushed towards the airport, got herself the most expensive ticket and by the time she was there he was right there in front of her with the same smile on his face. He had flowers, which she wanted to believe were for her but in no time her bubble broke out as she witnessed how his eyes didn't blink in that one hour that she stood infront of him.

She saw the flowers bright, but instead of walking towards her he was stagnant. His smile was the same but all she witnessed was how he was captured now in time, his time that stopped right there as his cherished people wailed their eyes out in front of him. She hated it, she hated that he stood there and witnessed everything instead of comforting them. She hated the white flowers and the candles , even the black clothes which itself looked melancholic. She took slow steps ahead and sat there watching him there, with his best smile for her and she knew it was the last time she would see him this way. From that day onwards he was just a captive in her phone memory as photographs she wished could come alive, for her to recreate a few of them again.

"I wish you could have stayed till the morning comes around, I would have been by your side"

A lone tear escaped her eye as she heard that voice coming from an old recording once again, right when she needed it.

"It's okay to cry at times when you miss me"