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Valentine's day Bizarreness
It was three o'clock in the morning when the phone rang. I brusquely stood up and took the phone out to the balcony so as to not bother my roommates with the noise. I was sure it was Nazim trying to reach me and tell me he wanted something or that he was trying to surprise me in some way for Valentines Day, which was technically that same day. With an annoyed voice of someone who had been sleeping I answered the phone:
“-`Allo… Who needs my counseling at this bizarre hour?”
“-Laura… Don't hang up! I wanted you to look over the rail of your balcony.” Nazim said cajoling me into doing what he said with his soft voice that I knew so well.
“-Okay! But you owe me for this. I am tired and I am in my nightgown.”
Still holding the phone to my ear I went over to the rail while lighting my cigarette, which I had left outside with my lighter just incase. I had the impression he had something on his mind. Indeed he did. He was standing there with roses in his hand and his cell phone in the other held up to his ear. He seemed to have come to disabuse my idea of him being a completely heinous person who only thought of himself.
“-What in all heavens sake... are you doing here? I thought I had told you I didn't want to hear from you ever again! If you contrived this just to go and break my heart again it isn't going to work.” I whispered angrily into my phone.
“-I know… but I want you back… I love you! I shouldn't have let you go. Not that easily… I shouldn't have left you there with that look on your face. I know I hurt you but please? I know I transgressed the rules here but I'd rather die than watch you suffer. The way I have made you suffer. I want to be the guy who protects you from anyone else. I love you.” He responded.
Basically, Nazim continued trying to convince me that he could be vicarious. It did not work… I sent him home with his roses and his sad face.
I did not want him as my valentine. He is dead to me… I, who thought him to be so kind and lovingly gave his word to stay by me, would not give in to his sweet talk. “Good bye Nazim… For as much as I loved you and still do love you. I say goodbye and request of you to never speak to me again. This is not going to end with me in your arms. I will leave and you will find another love to care for who will not look the other way as I do now. Please understand you will never see me again. You are only a distant memory to me and you are only a person of the past. Please forget all that happened between us for it will never come to happen again.” I said. With that I turned out my cigarette and went inside hanging up on him and blocking his phone number. I went to sleep quietly, without any regret in the world.
Six months later I left to go back to Mexico. I completed my high school with one thing in mind… To be a hotel management student and get my bachelor degree from UDLAP (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla). I let four years pass without looking back on that one night when Nazim so heartbrokenly tried to seduce me again. I spent time with Ariel, my best friend since the 8th grade, and only communicated with a few girls who had studied with me during my two year stay in Switzerland. Some of them talked to me about having stayed in Switzerland and that they were going to start their Masters in the same town I had been in or in the next town over. They had convinced Ariel and myself to come and do our Masters there so we agreed. Finding an apartment for two in Montreux and applying to our respective universities in town we had everything ready to travel on the 13th of February about 5 years after my initial departure.
Some of my friends had known Nazim and my history with him and had not told me that he was still there waiting for my return. Ariel had heard the story before but did not think it a big deal since I had overcome what had happened back then. Plus Ariel and I had become closer and were starting our own relationship. My friends had told Nazim to not approach me for I wouldn't remember him. That was the truth and my friends hoped that I wasn't going to remember my past relationship with the guy and only think him as another admirer of my past.
Some friends who had also come to Switzerland a few days before picked us up. I had brought my old cell phone which I had unblocked most of the numbers thinking them useless now that I had been gone for a long time but keeping them there just incase. As we got to town I showed Ariel some of the bars we might go to after taking a shower and changing.
After getting ready in our two bedroom apartment and checking that everything was working alright we went to Paradise which was the agreed meeting place for everyone and also and old hang out we used to love going to. As we got there I noticed some guys stare at me. I was 23 now and different in a way so I took it that they thought I was beautiful. I was holding Ariel's hand as we walked to the table reserved for our group of friends. It happened to be the table next to Nazims table. How ironic to know he had not recognized me yet and I had not recognized me. Though his cousin Besi, who spoke spanish recognized my voice and my way of speaking as I spoke to one of my friends for updates.
“Laura?” Besi asked in spanish and I turned to look at who said my name. It took some time to recognize him and David who sat next to him but then I reply: “I know you… You were Samirs brother… Am I right?” I noticed that my friends were slightly nervous. He nodded and smiled as I came around and said hello properly introducing Ariel as my boyfriend who stood next to me nervously with his arm around me.
“How is everyone?” I asked.
“Well Samir and Ceyda broke up a few years ago as you probably already know. Adam is a swiss lawyer now and has already married. I myself have married Ramina and Nazim remained single. David here has finally taken charge of life and is taking care of his kid and wife again.” He said simply with a rush of news.
At the mention of his name Nazim turned and he looked our way. I gazed back at him and a tinge of recognition came to me. “You!” My voice filled with disdain and Ariel's hand tightened around me at the mention of that name. Nazim seemed exauhsted and unhappy and affected greatly from some much drink. “I thought you would have left by now to your beloved country and stayed there. Maybe even marry some other girl who would have given you what you wanted.” I said keeping close to Ariel.
“And I never thought you'd come back and especially with a guy holding you around the waist so familiarly.” He said. He seemed hurt and saddened for that matter. Hope had been his last resort and now was destroyed at the sight of her happy with another.
The End