Love Song for No One-2

To her and everybody’s surprise, Zev came alone. As usual he became the center of attraction since the moment he entered the party but everyone wanted to see who he would bring with him tonight.

The party was going on really well and everybody seemed to enjoy it, except Ira. She felt claustrophobic in the ball room where the party was held because clearly there were more people than Zev’s father had anticipated. So she thought it was a good idea that she stepped outside. To her amazement she saw Zev getting cozy with one of her co-workers, she felt disgusted so she went in further ahead in the garden. Zev saw her go and felt a little embarrassed, not that he really cared. He excused himself and went towards the place where she had just gone. He saw her sitting on a bench just watching the moon. He was quite amazed to see her in full moon light as he had never thought she would look so beautiful. She just sat there wearing her white dress and Zev thought of it as practically as a perfect site. He went to her.

“It is quite chilly tonight, don’t you think??”

She saw him as he was sitting beside him on the bench.

“Yeah but you got all the warmth you need, right??”

“Jealous??” he started to smile.

“Why would I be jealous??” she said tsk-ing.

“Because deep down inside you can’t stop thinking about me”. He said, almost like as if he was stating a fact.

She just looked towards him as he said that line, though it was true, Ira didn’t want anybody to know about it. She felt the same warm feeling she felt the first time she saw him, and every other time she saw him or even thought about him.

“Just kidding, don’t get so serious now.” He said turning his smile into a grin.

“You think it’s so easy, right?? Just smile and be charming and you can get all the girls you want.”

“Yeah but being rich helps too” he said proudly.

By the time Ira could say something else, both of them were called inside for the cake cutting, the cake which was made by Ira herself.

It has been a few days since the party and Ira didn’t stop thinking about Zev, not only for obvious reasons, but she thought there is more to him that meets the eye. She wanted to know more, but every time she saw him, he was with a lady friend of his. Ira just couldn’t let it go, she was stubborn by nature but this was an absolute limit to her nature. She just had to know what his deep blue eyes were hiding.

In the town there was a place called the sunset point. It was both Ira’s and Kiaan’s favorite place to go and just look at the beauty of the magnificent nature around them. It was a place where words are not required to show how you feel. It was a magical place. Since it had been 2 weeks since Kiaan had gone, Ira didn’t have the chance to visit it. While finishing her work she decided to visit the sunset point mainly for the sake of old times, the times before Zev, the good times.

She kept thinking of Kiaan while she walked down the lanes of the small towns of how both of them used to go there, this wasn’t particularly necessary but she just was just trying to keep Zev out of her mind.

She reached the point just as the time when the sun was setting down on the horizon. Everything was glowing with a beautiful orange color which always calmed Ira. Birds were returning to their nests after the day of trying to find the feeds. There was a lot of noise made by the little animals living there but still a certain sense of calmness prevailed.

As she walked down further, she saw a shadow sitting by the valley and it reminded of Kiaan just sitting there and waiting for her. But she knew it wasn’t Kiaan, it couldn’t have been so she ignored the shadow and moved the other way. She just wanted to be alone. She wanted to be alone just so she could reminisce about whatever happened since the time Kiaan had been gone. Her life was perfect, at least that is what it seems now thinking about that time. She was still lost way deeply lost in her thoughts when a voice brought her back to her senses.

“Why are you following me everywhere??” said Zev in his usual tone of sarcasm mixed with dark humor.

“What? Me following you?? Not even in your dreams” she said, sharply.

“Then why are you here?? I hope not to check on me??”

“I can ask you the same question.”

“Well, I used to come here when I was a child. Nostalgia brought me here.”

“I am sure you used to bring a lot of girls here.”

“Some, not a lot” he said winking. “And some of them just came here following me”

“You really hate me, right??”

“Yes, I really hate you”

“And I love that. You know normally I am accustomed of everyone loving me. Everyone except you know, my father. It has been a long time since someone has hated me without even knowing me. “

“Without knowing you??What  is there to know?? You are a jerk. Period.”

“No one is born a jerk sweetheart. The world makes him a jerk. There is a story behind every jerk.”

“I bet you tell this story to every girl??”

“As a matter of fact, none of them. But I guess you are not interested in listening, so I guess I got to be going now” he said getting up to go.

“No, stay, please” as she touched his arm as if she doesn’t really want him gone, “Enlighten me with your story” trying to sound as sarcastic as she could.

“You really want to know?? Because you might fall for me if I do actually tell you my story” he said grinning. Deep down inside Zev never wanted to tell this story to anyone because it just made him vulnerable. He liked control, not vulnerability.

“I will try my best, believe me”