Week 13 Story: "It's Okay."
Radha waiting for Krishna (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
He= Krishna The narrator: Radha
“Hey..”
“Hey….” I answered him quietly as he sat beside me.
We were at our spot: a dock pond near his house. The sunset was beautiful over
there. Here we cried together, hold our hands for the first time, shared our first kiss, said “I love you” for the first time, and other first things that can happen in a love relationship.
But we were not in a relationship, not officially. Nor even unofficially. We
were best friends since 3rd grade and fell in love with each other in 11th
grade. Or, more like we came into terms with our feelings for each other in 11th
grade.
“So, you’re here to tell me you’re getting married?” I looked
at him with a little smile on my face.
He looked at me, silently.
My mom told me the news. She has been working at his home as a
housekeeper since forever, that’s why we were always together. Arranged
marriage. That was a common thing in his world. He is the only heir of a
multi-million corporate and he needs to be married to someone who’ll help the company
grow and expand. We took advantage of our college years to be together, kind
of. But now, it’s time for him to accomplish his destiny.
“I’m sorry.” He finally said.
I had the urge to tell him to not apologize because it is not his
fault but I kept my mouth shut. I want to blame him; I want to shout at him. He
did not fight for me, or maybe he did but it was not enough. How could he? How
could he give up on me this easily? The worst part is that his future wife is a
nice lady. She is beautiful, compassionate, and altruistic. We went to school
together and witnessed with my own eyes how she was. Super nice and smiley. He
will be lucky with her and vice versa.
“It’s okay.” I whispered.
We just sat there, silently, trying to comfort each other just by sitting
next to each other. As I said earlier, the sunset was beautiful over there. Our
last sunset sighting together.
Author’s note: This story is based on Krishna’s impossible love
story with Radha. The story of Krishna is pretty simple: he was the one who was
going to kill the evil one way before he was himself born—not even born that he
was already a threat to an evil King. His parents were from the royals family, and
they switched him with a baby girl from their village for him to live. Because
his uncle, the evil King, has been murdering his sister sons, fearing to be
killed by them while the prophecy said that the eighth son would be his killer.
Krishna is switched and lived his best life with his “mother.” During his life
there, he met his soulmate Radha but could not have a relationship with her
because she was not part of his destiny of saving the world.
I wrote the story in a modern setting. In both stories, the original
and this one, Krishna cannot be with Radha because of destiny. They are both coping with the painful truth.
Bibliography: Krishna, Epified TV
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