The tryst
One night I just woke with an awkward look on my face. I looked around to find myself in a large room with exquisite paintings from the medieval age all around .The walls were filled with swords and shields of gold and the chandeliers and lamps in the room were of diamonds and pearls. My bed was made of Sandal wood that dispersed sweet fragrance in the room. The moonlight pouring into the room was nothing like I have ever seen. It shone so bright that I almost mistook it to be day. I walked across the room to look into the mirror. And to my surprise I was all dressed in silk, satin and velvet like a prince with amazing long hairs.
I looked out of the window and I could see miles .It appeared to me that I was in a castle like place on some peak. I found my way out of the hall into the gardens which had all kinds of marvelous flowers extending beyond my eyes could see. Oh! What a dream I am having.
Just when I was tired wandering and exploring around the palace, I saw a man peacefully sitting near a peach tree on the other end of the cliff. I couldn’t overcome my curiosity and I headed towards him. He greeted me when I was still a few paces behind him .How do you know my name. Where am I and what am I doing here and who are you?
Relax kid it’s nothing new; you ask the same question every year .Every year? What do you mean by that? He smiled at me and then asked me to walk him down the hill. You are just the same kid I have been so fond of. And as I do every year I will tell you everything all over again for you to forget next year. Every thing about this place and you is freaking me out .I bit my hand just to confirm if I was dreaming and ouch it did hurt.
I am Gabriel. Oh my God am I dead and is this heaven .How could you do this to me, I haven’t lived enough yet .Oof! No you aren’t dead and I am not an angel .I am just a magician and I have you here to spend some time with you and off course tell you a story too . The story I am about to tell you is one of the greatest love stories in history of all times and yet no one knows about it. And why should that be? It was Andrews’s last wish to be that way. Who is Andrew now? How am I associated with all this? Just send me back; I have a class to attend to. I know how much attentive you are, don’t give me that ****, just be calm and listen carefully .I intend you no harm and stories are always fun.
So can you tell me the story please?
Once upon a time there were two kingdoms Adrastea and Amalthea on the two banks of the river Sabrina. Nobody knows since when they have been fiercest of enemies and for what reasons. It has just been carried in their blood lines for ever and ever. Andrew was the prince of Adrastea and Carolina was the pristinely beautiful princess of Amalthea. What about Andrew, wasn’t he handsome? Well I leave that up to you to decide later. It was prophesized by my father that they were meant to be together, so I had to find a way. I being the secret ally of both the states convinced them to have their kids study at my Paideia. Both were four years old when I brought them here.
Ok so this is the great story that you were talking about .Indeed it is a new plot that kids at four fall in love and no wonder why it isn’t in history .So now if you are done with it can I go back to my own ways.
If you insist I can send you back but then you will never know what happened to them and why you are here. Moreover my spell will only last until the first rays of the sun falls on the castle and then you are gone .So if you waste another minute you may miss something that won’t let you sleep for another year.
I hope you can speed up a little and maybe we can finish it fast. Ok so let me start from the end and then maybe you will remember the rest all by itself.
It’s a well known fast that the fragrance of love cannot be hidden and it spreads on its own. So finally the word of Andrew and Carolina’s love reached both the courts .Both the kings were so enraged that they declared their children to be slayed and set an example. I hid both of them with magic until they decided it was time they talked to their parents .So for the first time since ages both the kings gathered together to put an end to a life which they had nurtured with their own blood.
Holding hands together they entered the court, fearless and unstrained. The whole court held their breath and wished them to be spared .They bowed to their parents and begged for a few moments to let their heart out before the thread of their lives were snapped.
We understand the severity of our blunder and we are not here to seek forgiveness as we are not sorry for what we are accused of. But then there are a lot of other reasons we would like to be forgiven for.
We are sorry beyond words to have pained your hearts. Never in my life have I intended to do something which would not please you. When I opened my eyes for the first time, I wasn’t crying because this was the place in the entire world I wanted to be in. All my childhood I never cried because I just couldn’t withstand desperate looks on your faces. In all my life I have never intentionally disobeyed you, and if ever I did, you had always forgiven me without me pleading for it. So what suddenly made the difference? Had it for any other girl, wouldn’t you have blessed us with all the happiness in the world. Look into her eyes and tell me if you see anything except love for me and you. How could your heart grow so cold to nurture hatred for an innocent girl who loves your son and his family more than her life?
God was skeptical, but we choose you as our parents because we had faith in your unconditional loving heart. If a ray of light could defeat legions of darkness, how could love be defeated at the hands of hatred? If we were conceived out of love how could we have inculcated hatred in us?
You have always bestowed happiness in our life without us asking for it. So now what makes you deny us eternal happiness .Why in the world did the happiness of your enemies become more important to you than your own children’s? How could you care more for your enemy than your son?
True that we owe our life to you; you have all the right in the world to deny us life. We would be more than honored to lay it down if it pleases you. But then have you ever thought what were we born for? Don’t you realize that the only reason we were born was for each other .Somewhere in our heart we knew that you would understand us and stand by our side when se needed you the most. We don’t say that you have failed us .You must be having your own reasons for doing so, it’s just that we don’t understand. We know that our parents would never be wrong and how much it would have hurt them to pass the judgment against us. So respecting your judgment we lay down our lives and plead to be forgiven for our naïve thoughts.
There is just one last request that we have. Don’t let anyone know our fate or else love would loose its meaning and light would be afraid of the dark. Oceans of blood would conquer the world just because son’s and daughter’s would be slaughtered by their parents for the naïve reason that they hate their enemies more than loving their child.
With this last wish they sealed their tryst with a kiss and be gone they were to a different dimension, a world of two where they won’t be bounded by obligations and responsibilities .A place they can call their own and live their way.
How did they die? Ah! On their request I had given them a potion of death wish because they wanted to end their lives their way if necessity arose. I never thought they would use it but they did.
I feel sorry for them all, the hero, the heroine and their parents. Poor folks, maybe they would have changed their minds, but that stupid fellow never gave them a chance and poor heroine she did not even have enough dialogues to deliver. Don’t be, for their purpose was fulfilled .They had restored everything that mattered.
So can I go now .I am kinda sleepy. Damn I am a bad story teller, couldn’t make you believe it was you.
Maybe if you see Carolina, you would remember everything .She awaits you in the same room you awoke. I brought her from the same dimensions you belong to. And I guess you have met her before a few times in this life of yours. The sunrise is few moments away, run and you can make it.
“Happy b’day Andrew, see you next year “, I heard him say as I ran towards the palace. I did not believe in reincarnation the first time I was here. But as I saw her standing by the window, my heart beat was racing like a Ferrari. What if she is not the one I am so uncontrollably in love with? And what if she is the one? In all my perplexity, I suddenly noticed that her silhouette was exactly like her’s and in all my anxiousness; I called out a name (the one I use back on earth). As she turned to look at me, I was blinded by the first rays of the sun and I woke up sweating and panting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
