In a daze

He saw her walk across the hall. He was hooked. Despite the flurry of activity and million voices around him all he could see was her and all he could hear was her laugh. Someone shook him out of his reverie, he could've killed him but he realized it was his boss. Cursing inwardly, he tried to focus on what boss was saying, but his eyes kept searching for her, but she had disappeared.

The days went by in a daze. He couldn't get her out of his head and his eyes sought her in that hall every single day, but in vain. He imagined her laughing, at first it filled his heart with joy to hear those peals tinkle in his head, but the joy soon turned bitter as he imagined her laughing at him, mocking him, scorning his frustration.

The happiness that lay in the anticipation of catching a glimpse of her soon gave way to hatred. His eyes still looked hungrily for her, but now this search was not for the love that had once blossomed in his heart. Now he searched for her to punish her, to teach her not to make a mockery of him.

But the vengence too faded into oblivion, afterall, how long could he sustain it of his own accord, without providing it without the required instigation to fuel it? He was left hollow. These gamut of emotions had drained him completely and he felt empty from the inside; a shadow of his former self. His friends noticed it too and he soon stopped feeling the need for company. His friends statred shunning him and soon he was spotted floating alone, ostracized, desolate, weathered, as if he had lived 10 years in that one.

She saw him one day, standing by himself in one corner of that fateful hall where he had seen her exactly a year ago to this day. She went up to him and said hello. His breath froze sharply, for he instantly recognized that voice. He went through a billion emotions in an instant, he had relived that one year in that one instant. It took him all his effort to open his eyes and turn to look at her. He marvelled at his own ability to feel so much and so many feelings for a single person who he hadn't even ever spoken to. He was sorely tempted to react, acknowledge the effect she had on him, tell her; give her inkling of what all she had done to him, but his exhaustion got the better of him. Somewhere deep down inside he knew he did not have the strength to feel again. She had drained him of everything!! He ignored her and continued to stare into vacant space. Puzzled, she moved on.

And so ended, what could have been, the greatest love stories of our times.