"Have you ever loved someone so much that it made you cry?"
That was exactly the type of love I had for Sophia. We have been lovers way back as high school. I loved Stella with all my heart, body and soul. Unfortunately the forces that be have never wanted us to be together.
When I was much younger, I never had interest in girls. I never believed in love either. I always thought that love was overrated and more of a means for girls to enslave boys and drain them of their money.
Being a very handsome boy [According to my mom], The girls were always lurking. Most times, I notice girls trying to get my attention but I always ignored them. I preferred to hang out with my boys, because they had no problem, we reasoned alike and we had the same hobbies.
On a sunny afternoon, after school I was heading home with my guys, The weather was pretty hot, so I decided to stop and get ice cream. My friends waited for me at a distance while I walked to the bus to purchase the ice cream. Immediately I paid the seller and turned to leave, a girl who was running and answering a call at the same time bumbed into me, spilling the whole Ice cream on my T-shirt. This got me really angry.
"Are you crazy?
What is wrong with you?
Look how you ruined my T-shirt."
"I'm really sorry."
The girl said, trying to wipe the ice cream off my T-shirt.
"Sorry for yourself."
I said and walked away angrily. I ended up going home with a ruined cloth and never got to satisfy my crave for ice cream. During lunch the next day, I stumbled into the same girl from the previous day.
"Are you trying to get my attention?
You might need to try a new strategy."
I said with a smirk on my face.
"I'm beginning to think that you are following me."
The girl replied with a stern look.
I later came to realize that the girl was actually a cheer leader for the school football team in which I was the captain.
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"Why haven't I ever noticed this girl before?"
I asked myself as I watched her train with her fellow cheer leaders. Slowly I began to gain interest in this pretty cheer leader who I later learnt her name to be Sophia.
That was the beginning of our love story. Unfortunately we could never be together. According to our parents we came from different lineage which were forbidden from ever being together. Truly it was us against the world. Despite that, we still met in secret and was determined to get married to each other no matter what the world said. Unfortunately, any body that heard about our history refused to approve of our union. This made it difficult to find someone to wed us.
Luckily, we came across a man who agreed to get us married, only if we would agree to come to the abandoned castle at midnight. According to him, he would carry out a ritual that would cleanse us and break the curse that has forbidden our lineage from ever being together.
Midnight came, I couldn't get myself to go to the meeting place as agreed earlier. For some reasons I had cold feet at the dying minute. The next morning, I prepared an apology speech for Sophia. Immediately Sophia came into my house, I didn't let her say a word.
"Sophia I'm so sorry that I didn't show up at the castle last night as we agreed. My FEARS got a better of me."
"What FEARS?" Sophia asked.
"First I had FEARS of failure. I didn't want to get married to you and be disbanded the next morning. That would be really shameful."
"Is that all? Sophia asked curiously.
"Also I always have FEARS of things that I can't explain or things that I have no control over. And honestly I had no control of the situation at hand and that got me scared."
I was expecting Sophia to get angry and react, but rather I got a shocking response.
"I guess I owe you an apology as well. I never showed up either."
"Why so?" I asked surprised.
"I have always been scared of the dark. I FEAR the dark a lot. This has been an inbuilt fear which I grew up with after a terrible incident when I was little."
THERE YOU HAVE IT. THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS THAT PEOPLE FEAR. SOME OF THESE FEARS ARE IMAGINARY, SOME OF THESE FEARS ARE IN BORN. SOME OF THESE FEARS ARISE DUE TO PAST EXPERIENCES.
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