It was late at night, It was her best friend’s birthday, the best friend who is not her friend anymore. They haven’t talked in a while.
The story goes as any one sided love story. He fell in love with his best friend Anna. He did every thing in his power to make her happy and happy she was but not in love. He was her best friend and she loved him as much as a friend could, which was not less but it wasn’t the kind of love that would have made him happy. Anna couldn’t see she was bad for him or maybe she didn’t want to. We often see what we want to see, we sell ourselves a happy tale as long as we can.
But the harder we shut our eyes the harder life shakes us when it’s time to wake up and face the reality. Robert stopped being Anna’s friend right when she needed her friend the most. Anna’s heart was broken, and her best friend broke it further. Robert never liked Adam, maybe he was jealous, maybe he saw something she couldn’t. Adam broke her heart real good. Robert left at the same time, he decided it was time he started thinking about himself. Life continues, she got over both the heart breaks eventually or so she thought.
Something was not right, something has not been right for a while, a part of her was broken and until today she thought Adam broke her for good. Today Robert’s name flashed in a birthday reminder pop up reminding her of hundreds of happy memories from another life. As she sat on her bed missing those times, missing him and a version of herself which was now lost, she realized it was not Adam who broke her, it was losing her best friend. It was losing her faith in friendship and all things good, that changed her.
Anna stared at her phone for a while before she started typing the words.
“It took me a while, six years to be exact, to forgive you for leaving and to forgive myself for not being a better friend. To realize that maybe you could have done better and maybe I could have done better but we didn’t because we didn’t know any better then and that’s not our fault.”
Tears in her eyes she deleted the message and after a while, she typed again. “Happy Birthday Roby! :)”
She was right, it was not their fault. It was just how life turned out. Call it a mistake if you want.
We all make mistakes and sometimes a mistake makes us who we end up becoming.
Anna did love again. When it was time, she opened her heart and she loved with all her might but she never made a best friend again. She had friends but she never could let a friend get very close again, a part of her always stayed aloof. She knew she could survive a heart break but losing a best friend hurts a little too bad, a little too long.
Anna talked to herself in her bed, she did that sometimes when no one was looking. She said, “Now that you know what’s really wrong, maybe now you can fix yourself. Things which were important to you once might be broken now, but you don’t have to be.”
-N
Daily Prompt – continue
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September 3, 2017 at 4:05 am
This was very honest. I respect that. It’s an interesting take and perspective, thank you so much for sharing.
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September 3, 2017 at 10:46 am
Thank you for stopping by and the kind words. I have made some small changes though… I wanted it to sound more like a story than it did before. I hope I haven’t ruined it. 🙂
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September 3, 2017 at 4:36 pm
…well, now I gots to read it again. I’m sure you haven’t.
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Just finished reading it. And, well no surprise, I was right haha. You didn’t ruin it. You’ve taken it from one kind of story and made it into a newer one. The last version was greta and this was is great too, in a new way.
Well done. The names and small thoughts from Anna makes a difference. Subtle.
I think you did well.
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September 3, 2017 at 6:56 pm
Thank you. I am glad you think so. 🙂
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September 4, 2017 at 2:21 am
You’re welcome. Granted I’m just some random writer dude…(Damn, that’s what I shoulda called my site haha).
Thanks for sharing the story. Looking forward to more. Feel free to check out anything I’ve written in my portfolio. I’m always curious to see what people think or feel with my stories. 🙂 😀
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September 4, 2017 at 9:54 am
I would love to Mr. random write dude. 😀
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September 4, 2017 at 5:31 pm
Yes! Nameplate for my future desk, DONE! Haha. Nothing in particular I wanna point you to, ladies choice. Go with what you feel 🙂 (Life motto).
Much appreciated. Gracias. Feel free to shoot me an email if you’d like with questions or maybe even a collaboration idea. I’m down…I mean, if you are.
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September 5, 2017 at 8:45 am
This sounds interesting! Give me couple days, I shall get back to you about this soon, and yes I am down. 🙂
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September 5, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Awesome 🙂 No worries at all, take your time. I have no doubt it’ll be fun.
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September 5, 2017 at 7:26 pm
Since you’re having a rough time with your eyes, send me an email and I’ll send you my phone number. That way we can get you off the screen for a bit and see how to merge styles to create something GIGANTICALLY ADDICTIVE to readers haha.
You seem to like the character development in my stories, and I have some ideas to how you might be able to make quick work of character development overall. SO MUCH FUN! 🙂
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September 4, 2017 at 5:34 pm
-_- didn’t leave the email: gustavoelomas@yahoo.com
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September 3, 2017 at 5:34 am
Thanks for sharing this piece. I am glad She found love again but still can look fondly back with no fault of anyone in her grief.
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September 3, 2017 at 10:51 am
Thank you, that means a lot! 🙂
I hope you don’t mind the changes I made to the post and the comment.
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September 3, 2017 at 12:01 pm
Hey if you ever wanna say hi and chat writing my email is jedda_93@hotmail.com
Great piece ☺️
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September 3, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Thank you!! 🙂
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September 3, 2017 at 8:29 am
I enjoyed reading this. It’s a bit different from your poetry and I liked the change up. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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September 3, 2017 at 10:47 am
I am glad you enjoyed it. Thank you, Melissa! 🙂
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September 3, 2017 at 9:01 am
fear to loose is a strange one. but whats more stranger is if only we had the guts to express our feelings when we needed to. atleast we would have a chance for a positive outcome. not expressing our feelings at the right time only takes away the chance for that positive outcome. if only it were that simple though. but thats life for you. strange. glad she found love again, my only hope is that she finds the trust for friendship again. thanks for sharing
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September 3, 2017 at 10:58 am
Expressing a feeling at right time is important but sometimes it’s difficult to understand one’s own feelings towards something. Sometimes negative feelings wear a mask of anger and by the time the mask is off, time is not.
Thank you for your sweet words, I hope you don’t mind the changes in the post and the comment.
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September 4, 2017 at 10:03 am
I never saw the original before the changes but I liked this version. I hoped Roby would reply but maybe that’s for another day!
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September 4, 2017 at 10:15 am
Thanks Quinn! You are right that’s for another day. The bigger point here is discovering that hurt that we have been holding on to without even realising and letting it go. 🙂
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September 4, 2017 at 12:29 pm
That’s always the healthy thing to do!
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September 4, 2017 at 12:29 pm
Harder, but healthier.
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September 5, 2017 at 8:42 am
True 🙂
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November 25, 2017 at 7:49 pm
Enjoyed reading this, very good!
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