As the dawn breaks and a little glaze of light makes its way trough the shades, they are together in bed, lying side by side with no worries, with nothing on their minds except the love they felt.
The day became more and more violent and filled the room with a painful brightness. And even if most people think of light as being pure and warn, not capable of any kind of destruction, they both knew what was going to unfold, damning the sun and the revelation it caused.
Another popular belief is that light means the truth, opposite to the dark, filled with lies and mischievous deceit. But there are those few times in life when you don’t want to hear the truth, you want to bury it deep inside your soul and let it root, hoping it will never see the light of day.
And the light meet the truth and they saw what was surrounding them. She slowly got up and starting getting dressed. He watched her from the far, even if she was in his reach. Maybe he wanted to think it was still the dream he had a little earlier. Maybe the light made him see that this was what was supposed to happen, that the time had come for the truth to make itself heard.
All his being was screaming inside in a desperate attempt to make a difference, his heart bleeding rivers of blood, hurting like no other time. Even so, he said nothing, sitting there quiet, looking at her, and smiling in a weird way.
She didn’t understand his smile, wasn’t him aware of what was about to happen, could he not care? She also kept these questions to herself, as he did with his pain. She was glad he was quiet, it made her job a lot easier.
He dared to throw a last glance at her naked breasts reliving all the moments he had her all to himself, together in a timeless moment, holding each others bodies, not caring about the world. She felt his look like she did in the past but this time she didn’t cover herself, calling him a pig for staring. She let him enjoy her body for one more time, even stopping for a second, just enough for him to take a mental picture.
His pain seemed to have vanished for a second replaced by pure love. He wanted to tell her how beautiful she was, how he wants to cherish her forever, how she should come back to bed, how they should make love and fall asleep, her hugging him and his head on her bosom. Then love became rage, he saw her with another, being touched, being smelt, being happy. That thought killed him and made him angry, wanting to scream at her. How could she do this to him, how could she let another touch what was his to have and not to share, the most precious thing in his life. Again, he kept quiet.
While she finished dressing he got up from the now cold bed. He seemed to have more strength and broke the silence Nu vrei sa bei o cafea? / Nu pot, trebuie sa ajung acasa. she answered giving the impression that she wanted to stay but couldn’t. They both knew she was lying.
He followed her into the hallway and again watched her, this time putting her shoes on. She stood up and looked at him with a trace of regret that soon faded away. Her eyes were filled with some sort of peace. She knew that what was about to come will be a hard and painful period, but it all was for the best. This was what should have happened a long time ago, she was just the one to find the power to do it first.
He sent back mixed feelings. He hated her for leaving him all alone to face the world. He loved her for being what she was and for letting him discover her, piece by piece, like a human puzzle. He was grateful because she was ending it, even though he didn’t want to, or just didn’t have the power to do it, it was the right thing to do.
She looked at the ground, not knowing what to say to him. He was part of her, he had her heart, he was her best friend and her lover. He lifted her chin and said Capu` sus, o sa fie bine, ai sa vezi…. She looked at him with those big green eyes filled with tears and smiled, like she used to whenever he was nice to her. He winked at her and kissed her forehead.
Pa. was the last word he could bare to say. She stood there thinking that this was the last chance to take it back, to go back to bed. Pa… she replied going down the stairs. The sound of the door closing behind her crushed her head in and let out all the tears. She got in the cab, he went back to bed.