“This time, I really messed it up. Didn’t I?”
“You did well Bruce, very well, but yes now there is no return”
“You? Do I know you? Oh Yes! I have loved you for so long. I still love you!”
“So do I Bruce, so do I”
“Now what happens? Where will you take me?”
“You will figure it out eventually. But for now, there is still time”
“But you never show up earlier or late. You are precise. So why am I seeing you now?”
“I am not early. I do come to see time to time the ones I care about, the ones I love. And I love you Bruce. You have always openly flirted with me. And every time when I thought that I have you, you always found a way out.”
“Not this time. Listen to his laughter. The maniac! He thinks this is funny. I don’t think it is”
“I don’t think he finds it funny. He flirts with me even more than you do. I think I know him”
“Do you love him as well?”
“No, my younger twin sisters do like him though. I don’t find his jokes funny. But yes I like one fact, that he is always pushing you to unite with me”
“You are asking me to come with you. But I can barely walk right now. My lower body is paralyzed it seems.”
“Don’t be coy! You don’t need to walk to be with me”
“Oh yes! But my lady, I want to walk. I have some unfinished business.”
He gets up slowly, panting and sweating on his back to a sitting position. She is watching him with interest. It had been some time now, since the man who laughed shot him in his back with a nerve paralyzer, a grin inducing toxin. It is such an old weapon of his but very potent.
It worked through his spine almost instantaneously. But this girl who is wearing an Ankh, is most beautiful. Her black hair tangled plays with the wind. Her eyes twinkle when she talks. She is wearing a costume; no he thinks she is dressed like one of those punk kids. But she is so beautiful.
He thought she must have opened his belt, found the anti-toxin and shot it through his arms. But why, he thinks he knows.
“You saved me”
“Figured you still don’t love me enough. You are still not ready to walk with me.”
“Don’t bother, one day even I have to walk with you. And I promise, no more tricks then.”
“Good bye Bruce”
“Good bye. I wished that you could have stayed a bit longer. But we both have unfinished business. That man is still laughing. Really what a mess I have created”
28 APR 22- A RED LETTER DAY
2 years ago
