I ran as fast as I could, i ran like I was being chased by a lion. The lion called out my name, " peace! Peace! Can you wait a bit?" I could hear the footsteps approaching me and I was ran with all that was in me, my feathers from my gown fluttered down, I bumped across people and I closed my eyes and I could not be able to look with my eyes opening. I could feel a swarm of emotions within me, not the one that made me smile while starring at butterflies. The one that made me cry whenever I saw my plants die prematurely.
I bumped against a Hard wall, and I looked up and I saw a man that I had crashed into a man. " hey! Ms. Peace, why are you running so fastly?" I heard Mr. Parker, call out my name. I could have apologized I thought but I knew that now was no time to dilly dally my time
Thane
I became elated, I hit waiters, I jammed across serving tables and I stopped by the man that Peace had hit.
" Hey, I apologize on behalf of my wife, she didn't meant to" I could hear myself scream while talking to my man, maybe I was just being unrealistic; I couldn't have shouted that loud, I couldn't have screamed that high. I felt a higher level of euphoria. We had been running quite a distance. Across the whole hall, my legs felt tired. I watched her quaint Ever since we had separated, I have been living my life in a monotonous state of emptiness. Now that i have finally met my other half after our five years of separation. I had to glean strength from whatever place I could.
" Peace!" I saw her panic as a long trail of conga line dancers. I ran to where she was and I held her hands and grabbed her hands and wrapped her in a hug from her back.
" Peace why are you running away from me? why are you running away? Do you know how much I missed you?" i felt a sharp pain in my palms that I wrapped around peace. I writhe in pain but I soon realized that the congo dancers line had ended and she continued running. I stretched out my hands and I continued chasing after her. I could understand why she was running for me, she had every reason too,I wronged her and made her life miserable. With or without a reason, I should have believed her. Meeting her was the best thing that happened to me, her leaving me or getting a divorce or anything was what I had least expected, was the least I wanted.
I felt compunction accumulate on my eyelids, at the bottom of my heart, at the sole of my feet. She didn't seem to know she was enetering a dead end. She must have not been familiar with the centre. I knew that I would have enough time to talk to her, to explain myself and apologize. I had been fantasizing about this moment; the moment where I would be reunited with her again. The period where I would have my day and night a similitude. There would be no more darkness. My joy would return back to me.
She turned around and touched the ending of the room, like a rat conered she breathed in and out and tried forfending against me " you are not real, go away!" she screamed. I could hear her voice crack at the last syllabus of away.
" I, I Peace. I wont question why you ran away. I deserved the bite, I am so sorry, I should have stopped chasing after you but I just could not Peace. I have been alone. I prayed to God everyday that he would bring me to you. I could not just let you run, I am sorry for making you sweat this much." I reached out for my handkerchief in my pocket. I did not feel it, I wondered if it had fallen out, I found it. I got it, I could see her gaze fixed at my hand movements intently and attentively. I could not miss the opportunity to get her to soften up to me. I knotted the handkerchief in a heart shaped way, it was a trick she discovered and showed only me. I knew that her seeing this would make her feel at ease with me.
I stepped forward so that I could clean her sweat droplets off her face, her face went a step backward. She still felt uncomfortable, I took a step forward and raised my hands closer. She hit it out of her way.
I looked down and played with the handkerchief a bit, I put it back in my pocket.
" I have missed you peace, I told her why staring at her. Ever since that day you left, I had been in perpetual pain. I know I am being selfish now but please forgive me, I should have believed when you said that you were set up, I should have seen your sincerity through your tears, through your shriveled voice, I should have discerned through your unfinished dishes on the kitchen, or the quietness of our home speakers; they were given the opputunity to speak with your lively outbursts, I deplore my actions. When I found out that you wanted a divorce, my heart skipped several bits, I went into a temporary trance, I hungered for your very presence; without you I was not complete. I need you back, Peace.." I called out as she stared at the ground not moving not saying anything. She behaved like a robot that was currently under repair. I hope that my words would repair something in her heart."
" Peace…" she looked up, her eyes were as beautiful as I remember, her almonds were beautifully extended by the blackish thing that women put across their eyes, her pink blush flowered my heart and her fake freckles highlighted her cheeks. Her lips were purse and glossy, reminding me of the glittery sticky notes grandma had placed on the fridge while I was younger.
I looked down and I studied her from head to toe, Her red satin gown body hugged gown had sweeped the marble floor, the handless gown had her upper bod covered with feathers that had been plucked from the dress and now all over her body.
After five years she still looked ethereal. She looked breathtaking. I felt kind of ashamed of myself when I stared at her instead of caring about how she felt.
" No, no no!." She closed her ears with her hands and she let them go and clenched her fist near her chest while sobbing heavily.
" peace I am really sorry, I choose not to remain seperated from you. I cant go on living a life where you are absent. Don't you miss the old times?" I held her fist and it was warm, as warm as my towel I used after showers.
" I have heard you." She started by looking up at me sharply.
" I didn't mean harm, I am not asking us to forget the past, and I am not saying that I should be forgiven but for the sake of one anothers happiness, cant we just reconcile?...huh?"
" I said I heard you." I saw her face brightened up gradually as she grabbed my palm that held her hands and dropped it down slowly to my side. She breathed in and out and stared into my eyes with a smile. I missed her smile, my hearts was superfluous with hope and joy . I know that I did not deserve it but she was giving me a chance. A chance to become a better man.