A Different Kind Of Love Story…
A short fiction which I wrote that includes the line “I didn’t see that one coming”. I hope you guys like it.
One day there were two friends, and who knew if they would stay friends forever? The world was changing every day, and some people were too busy with nothing. They both got enough sleep every night, had a steady job, and had food on the table, but neither of the two had a good friend they could call their own.
Some people had everything they needed but lacked the things they really needed. They had a nice apartment, but it wasn’t nearly warm enough- surely it was warm physically, but it lacked the basic things that made anyone’s life really ‘all that’ such as something spiritual that made them feel like the Universe made sense.
And so, these two humans knew each other, and they were acquaintances. They were friends, but not more than that. Some people believed in Karma and others believed in whatever they wanted to. But maybe these two people were going to meet after all.
One of them liked going to Church. The other liked going to the park next to the Church. Because he had a love-hate relationship with spirituality. He was so scared that if he entered the church, the pastor would yell at him for smoking within the church premises.
So one day Jill (who likes being spiritual about life) tells John (who doesn’t) that being even remotely spiritual has its benefits. They happened to be friends, but it seemed like her Church-going habit, was having a placating effect on John who happened to like introverted pastimes such as this.
So, as things would have it, he did not mind attending the Church Service on Sunday because he wanted to hear the melodious crooning of the Sunday choir even though ordinarily a day at the Park was just fine with him.
And so the two kept on doing this, and they seemed to be walking in and out of the Church Venue because they felt they had some sort of calling/purpose, but no idea what to do with it. On the days when they went to church days were so smooth, and everything fell into place magically.
Jill started to realize that she was so philosophical about Life, and it was starting to speak tons about her as a person too. She lived in a comfy home, but it was full of love, and everything that a person ever needed -’ A house is made of wood and stone, but only Love can make a home’ is what she believed about life and other things.
One day she asked him a serious question. They were both starting to like the other’s company. He was born a Christian but he barely liked doing things the way the church meant for them to be done. He was too busy with his job and his life as of then.
But that day he went home to his little hole in the wall. He thought about the times when she said some things that spoke volumes about who she seemed to be as a person.
He felt the call too. He decided for Jill’s sake to join her at Church on Sundays. She knew that he wouldn’t get it at first, but she would start from the beginning. She promised that she would tell him all the beautiful Church songs that sounded so wonderful...
He was attracted to the feeling of being there since he had seen his mother go there as a child. He had felt the pain of his parent’s arguments and final separation. But there was something about Jill here that made his heart feel warm, and when he looked into her eyes, there was a fire burning inside.
And then, the two of them promised to love each other until the end of days. They were never supposed to be an item, but they were now more than just friends. They felt the presence of something at Church, maybe it was Jessica nursing his wounds. Maybe it was God doing what God was so good at doing. God was making a way for two lonely people in this broken world.
And to think of it. If Jill had not brought dearest John to Church, he would have probably gone to places where people usually thought they could meet and greet other friendly types and get lost there like the other sinners in the world. Like the other broken people. Who didn’t care about the state of their soul…
So things happened, and these two became fast friends. Maybe they even got married if it were really meant to happen. But God made a way for Jill and John to be friends, and have some sort of godly existence if that were a thing according to the church-going types.
One day when they were sitting together in the park, the very adorable John sat next to Jill on the park bench and they kissed behind a flower like in 50’s movies. The thing about their kiss was it was so real, and it meant everything. Since he was the one who initiated it she said “I didn’t see that one coming”…
And the thing is, they were happy. They loved each other, in every way, and people loved the sight of them together and enjoyed their company. God had a plan for them both. It wasn’t like they were meant to be married, but they did exercise their God-given choice. And Life was beautiful again…