Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 84

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 84

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The air hostess smiles at him as she passed him rolling her cart on the plane, he returns the smile and sips his cup of tea.

”Oh Darren, I swear this is exactly the dress I wanted to get, there are like only two of this in that boutique and it was so expensive I didn’t mind selling my car for it, the details were out of this world my God, see the gold shimmering… look at the glow on her face” she says beside him causing him to face her.

He stares at the picture ”You would have looked ravishing with that dress”
”I know right?” She smiles, she leans in and then kisses him lightly on his cheeks. Then she looks at him
”Do you think they would love me?”
”They would love you” He says reassuring her

”You don’t know that”
”They are family, my best friends..they would love you”

”When last did you see them? Their tastes and preferences would have changed”
He takes her face in his hands ”They would love you”

She smiles, leaning in to kiss his cheeks again ”How much longer?”

”An hour, christening don’t start before 11.” He stares at hos watch ”Hopefully if I make it there on time, I won’t be leaving in a body bag”

She laughs at his comment ”She gonna kill you if you don’t show up right?”
”She would bury me, I kept promising I would come see them but it’s been two years, I never did, partly for selfish reasons but now… I know if I do not, it would be over between us and I can’t risk that… she is like a smothering mother that one and he is a grumpy father” He laughs, she smiles at him

”You miss them don’t you?”
”Alot, can’t wait to see them”
”Okay, phew. Hungry? I am hungry” She turns away.

”Let me get a hostess to give you a snack, don’t worry Dee..stop fidgeting as though you are going to see the parents”
She laughs ”I would have liked to see the parents”

”Yes…they would have liked to see you too” he rubs her arms and leans backward staring out the plane. His mind zoning into his thoughts .

Two years ago today..he left this city running away from the pain in his chest..

Two years ago today, he boarded that boat of the ship and didn’t look back, got to his office, took the offer to head the finance firm out of state. Left same day, second flight and didn’t bother to wait for their cruise ship to end to say a proper good bye to his friends.

Two years ago today…the ache in his heart remains.

Two years ago today, he wonders if he would ever see her again and if she would blow him away now that he had moved on.

Two years ago today… he walks back to face his demons… the pain in his chest. He hopes he never sees her again.


”Darren?”
”Yes?”

”Thank you for sharing your life with me”
”Thank you for agreeing to be part of my mess”

He kisses her knuckles.

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”I will kill him I swear I will kill him, I swear it” Tonia says staring at the clock above the priest’s head.

”Relax Tonia, don’t be dramatic. Two years and you still act like a smothering mother”
”I am a smothering mother damnit!”
Tom smiles ”Oh dear Lord, I feel like a grandpa”

She smiles under her chin.. ”You are a grandpa, father to Darren and this little bundle of joy”

Tom laughs silently ”And you love this grandpa”

”Madly, crazily and insanely!!” she flutters her lashes ”He is my world”
”As you are to hims” he kisses her forehead.

”And would be Father and Mother please step forward as we Christine their son..?”
Tom gets up, carries his son while his wife walks behind him to the pulpit while friends and family members remained seated in the congregation.. Tonia turns to look behind her and catches a another familiar face in the crowd.

Lucy waves at her and blows her a kiss. Tonia smiles back turning away.
”And the God-father?” The priest raises his head to look at them.

”He is being held up, he is on his way from the airport and you know how that can be and if we can please wait just a little while longer–” Tonia pleads joining her thumb and her index finger together slightly touching.
”We have three other families here in present , we cannot wait any minute longer, come forward and let me have the child so we ca begin the ceremony” The Priest beckons to them. Tom hands their son to him.
Tonia is muttering under her breathe as she looks behind her, willing him to show up. she turns back to the Priest as he takes her son closer to him.

”I will kill him, I swear I will kill him..” Tonia kept muttering.
”Rise everyone as we Christine this son and give him into the hand of the father…”

*

Annalisa is seated in her car.

She had been seated outside the church for the past one and half hour, deciding whether she should go in or not.

Lucy had invited her for Tonia’s son christening three weeks ago, knowing that she would be in town. Tonia too had extended an invite but ever since that day two years ago.. things had never been thesame.
Tonia had tried to be civil but, she felt that she blamed her for making her friend Darren to leave the city, far away from them.


Well, it was her fault; if they hadn’t met, she wouldn’t have turned his life upside down in a sense and maybe he wouldn’t have made her turn hers too.

Maybe they were both a mess.

The remaining two days on the ship passed like she never existed. Tonia preferred to be anywhere but close to her, Tom was still nice, Lucy was mad at her, Daniel didn’t stop trying to get with her, His wife harassed her and Bella snubbed her all through. The surprising turn out was Natalia who clinged to a girl all through till the cruise ended. She seemed to had forgotten about Darren, but she didn’t relent in trying to make her feel like s--t for making Darren leave.

In all, it was hell. There was no sweet face Darren so reassure her that it wasn’t because of here. There was no more fun, just..sadness.

He had said they would talk in the morning, how was she to know he was telling her goodbye, and by morning he was gone. Literally gone. No forwarding address, no number, nothing.

She had gone by his office to ask; Bella had had a field day telling her to fxxk off. She felt bad, she felt horrible…she wished she could tell him how really sorry she was and didn’t realize how it all affected him that he had to move away from the city.
Sighing, she rubs her temple.
He had asked her what she wanted..Happiness she thought. Happiness to her before Darren was Daniel.

But …if only he had allowed her tell him what she told Daniel, a man she loved at some point in time, he would have seen that..there was no way she was going to date a married man even if she loved him insanely.
Yes! she wanted happiness, and she wanted it so badly she yearned for it. Maybe, maybe she should have picked him, maybe he would have been here still. Maybe he would have been her happiness..maybe not.