I walked to his house and reached within few minutes. I pushed the door open shouting his name.
“Harry!”
I didn’t get any response from him. I climbed the stairs and reached his room calling out his name. To my surprise, he was not there. Suddenly I felt someone’s presence behind me and I smiled thinking it was Harry. But when I turned back, I saw an aged woman instead of him.
“Who are you?” I asked looking at her.
“Harry sir left an hour ago, Ma’am. I’m appointed as a janitor to take care of this building.”
Hearing her, I was frozen for a minute. The only movement in my body was my tears that were continuously flowing down.
“Ma’am?” She shook me.
“Did he say anything to you to inform to the girl named Stella?” I asked.
She nodded her head as negative. I sat on the bed crying. I should’ve thought about it already. Why would he even think about me? Why would he inform me when he was leaving? I shouldn’t have gone to his house.
The woman touched my shoulder and kept looking at me as she didn’t understand what to do. She said “I’ll get you a glass of water.” She then went out of the room.
I saw the drawing, which I gifted him, still hanging on the wall. I strolled to it and touched it while remembering how I drew it pouring all my love in it. He didn’t even take my gift with him. I began crying more with that. I noticed a crushed paper in the dustbin and my curiosity asked me to take it. I set the paper straight and I was shocked seeing it.
Stella,
I don’t know how you would feel after reading this. I tried so hard to not tell you and to not bother you but I can’t control myself, Stella. I have to say this and you have to listen to me this time. I LOVE YOU, STELLA.
My heart skipped a beat reading that. All of a sudden my tears of sadness turned as the tears of happiness. It was really hard for me to believe what I was reading.
I know it’s too late for everything. I know you want to forget me and you won’t love me anymore. As you always said, I’m really an idiot, Stella. An idiot, who always take right decisions in the wrong time and wrong decisions in the right time.
You are wrong, Harry. I still loves you. I love you always. I told myself while all the emotions in me started to stir up.
I was always late in everything. I realized my love on you lately still I tried to express my feelings hoping you would accept me. But you are right. I’m not a good guy for you. I’m not perfect for you. You are better off without me so I’m leaving. I’m leaving this town, Stella and I’m afraid I won’t be back again. This is the last time you’ll ever hear from me. But remember one thing, if someone sees your picture on my cell phone and they asks about you, I will say, She is Stella from princess land. She is the princess of the town and to my heart.
I whimpered reading that. I started sobbing loudly with happiness and sadness at the same time.
I hurt you so much. I’m sorry Stella. I don’t even understand how to say good bye to you. I don’t even know if I have the guts to face you after giving this letter. But I’m sure about one thing. Once I leave this town, I’ll never disturb you again from this day, until the end of my days. This is the promise I’m giving to you. Be happy, princess.
Harry.
I fell on my knees hugging the letter to my chest. My heart started to ache so badly and I barely took my breaths.
“I love you, Harry.” I shouted at the top of my lungs looking at the ceiling. “I’m not better without you. I want you, Harry.”
The maid came towards me bending to my level. She gave me the water glass but I didn’t take it. I stood from there and walked out with the letter in my hands. While walking, a car halted beside me abruptly. I noticed it as Vickie’s. She got down of the car saying “Bitch! What are you doing on the road, alone?”
I was already irritated and sad with everything and she came to increase my feelings.
She walked towards me swaying her hips. She stood in front of me and shouted “Oh my god! What am I seeing? You are crying.”
I tried to walk away but she stopped my walk standing in front of me.
“Why are you crying? Oh don’t say you are crying for your ex boyfriend.”
I looked at her angrily while tears kept flowing down.
She looked at me for a second and said “I guess I’m right. But why do you even cry for your ex? Didn’t you get to see him one last time? You know what, I saw him.” She winked and continued “I saw him driving to the left of the town, to the outskirts. I too feel sad seeing a handsome guy leaving our town.”
I narrowed my eyebrows asking “What did you say?”
She rolled her eyes saying “I said a handsome…”
“No. You said you saw him left to the town.”
“I did.” She raised her eyebrow.
I started to laugh in happiness hearing her. He had to go to the right of the town to leave for his city. But she saw in the opposite direction. He didn’t leave the town. I knew where he was.
Immediately I folded the paper that was in my hands and put it in my pocket. I looked at Vickie and said “I have to go. I have to go to him.”
Then I ran to her car and got in the driver seat starting her car.
“What the hell! Get down of my car, bitch.” She started to hit the door yelling.
“Sorry. I’ve to go, Vickie.” I started the car holding the steering.
“No.” Shouting that she got in the passenger seat to stop me but I’ve started already before she sat on the seat properly.
“Ouch! Slow down bitch.” Shouting that she shut the car door and sat properly.
“This is my car. You better stop the car or I’ll kill you.” She kept shouting but I didn’t reply anything to her.
“I’m fucking shouting at you. Atleast tell me, where we are heading to? If something happens to my car, I swear I’ll destroy everything of yours.”
My lips started to curve up with smile with the fact that he was still in town but I had no idea how long he’ll be there.
“I’m bloody shouting at you. Why the hell you are smiling? You should’ve got atleast a shame to drive your enemy’s car.” She shouted.
I nodded my head sideways focusing on the road. I shouted “Who the hell said you are my enemy? Did you forget, you and I were friends in our childhood?”
“Yeah that’s the biggest mistake in my life. I shouldn’t have considered the person who hates me, as my friend.” She shouted “For fuck’s sake go slow. I don’t want to die today.”
I was so sure if any traffic police saw me the night, I would be taking my punishment for exceeding the speed limit and driving like a mad woman.
“It’s you who hated me in the first place and you made me to dislike you. Don’t blame everything on me.”
“Don’t blame on you? You knew how much I liked Stefan in our school days. But he proposed you. Then on whom I should blame?”
“Seriously Vickie? He proposed me. What’s my fault in that? And you know what, when he proposed me, I said ‘Vickie loves you so much, I would love to see you both hanging with eachother.’ Still you despised me.” I shouted while driving.
“You said that?” she narrowed her eyebrows.
“Of course I said that yet you hated me leaving me no choice but to hate you too.” Shouting that I stopped the car as I reached my destination.
I got out of the car and started to run but I stopped when Vickie called my name “Stella!”
I turned back and looked at her. She leaned to the car saying “I never hated you, bitch. I was just… jealous of you. You are everything I wanted to be. You are beautiful, you dance better than me, you are a topper and you are everything. Boys drool over you. You make them come after you just with your bloody look.”
Okay I was not expecting that. And clearly I didn’t expect Vickie crying in front of me.
She rubbed her face shouting “Why don’t I get any boy I like? Why do they always come for you?”
“Because you deserve better than those boys.” Saying that I ran to her and hugged. Don’t ask me why I did that. At the moment, it felt right. She hugged me back mumbling “That’s why I loathe you. You can make even me to love you.”
I smiled hearing her and kissed her cheek. Then I started to run shouting “Thanks for the drive.”
“I didn’t give you the drive. You literally stole my car. Perhaps, I should file a complaint against you.”
I ran to the place where I was sure he would be there and I was right. There he was, sitting near the lake with his backpacks and watching the sky. I wiped my tears looking at him and stepped towards him angrily.
Looking at me, he stood from there confused. I stood in front of him shouting “Why didn’t you lift my calls?”
“It… it was on silent mode. You called me?” He raised his eyebrows.
I looked at the backpacks and asked “Going somewhere?”
He nodded his head saying “To my home. What are you doing here?”
“If you are going to your home then what the hell are you doing here?”
“It’s not your problem.” He gritted his teeth.
“Oh really? Then whose? Going home leaving this town? Leaving me? Leaving everything?” I shouted.
“Yes.” He said looking into my eyes.
“Maybe you forgot something.” Saying that I took out the letter from my pocket. I gave it to him asking “Why didn’t you tell me before?”
He nodded his head sideways taking the letter. He mumbled “You shouldn’t have seen this.”
“Why didn’t you give me this letter? Why did you threw it in the bin?”
“I thought to not disturb you with this stupid thing. You are happy without me.”
I pushed him back by his chest shouting “I am happy? You idiot. You didn’t tell me, why? How can you think I stopped loving you?” I kept shouting at him hitting and pushing him. “How can you think I’ll ever be happy without you? Tell me, why?”
I cried and wrapped my hands around his stomach.
“I tried to tell you, Stella. But situations made me shut my mouth and you said I’m not good for you.”
“I said those things in anger. I was so stupid.” I put my head on his chest saying “I want you, Harry. I loved you, I love you and will love you always.”
“You do?”
“Yes I do idiot. I can’t imagine me without you. How can you think you could leave this town with this much love in your heart?”
He hugged me back saying “I tried it because I thought you will be better without me. But I couldn’t.”
I stood straight wiping my tears. I looked at him saying “Okay it’s already so late because of your stupidity. Tell me now. You love me?”
My heart started to beat rapidly anticipating the known reply. But the feel of Harry proposing me, made my heart pace fast.
He cupped my cheeks saying “I love you, Stella. I love you my princess. I love you always.”
As soon as he said those words, I stood on my tiptoes and landed my lips on his. I wrapped my hands over his neck while his hand pulled me towards him deepening the kiss. After a long, passionate kiss we both broke it smiling and taking deep breaths.
“Why did I even love you, idiot?” I asked smiling.
He pulled me close to him grabbing by my waist. He said “Because I’m your prince. Not an idiot, princess.”
“You are always an idiot to me. Now how about the thing we always do.” I smiled.
He nodded his head and turned on the music. He held my one hand with his while my other one rested on his shoulder. He put his hand on my waist and pulled me towards him swaying his body. I began dancing with him looking into his eyes matching every step of his.
“Will you dance with me till the end of my life?” He asked while dancing.
“I will. Forever with you.” I replied looking into his eyes.
Then we both kept dancing feeling the cool breeze on our skins, with darkness around us that made us realize there was only us. Holding hands, looking into each other’s eyes and moving in a proper rhythm like he was born for me and I was born for his, which felt like eternity.