Just like a grumpy old grandpa

Remember the first time we met?

Maybe you do.

Maybe you don't.

But you know I do.

I always did.

Because I had loved you and never told you that you never knew.

March 7

When I first met you, you were 7 and I was 5.

Remember?

Before this encounter with you, I had only known that aunt Alinza had a son one year older than me.

When you came to our house with your mother, she was such a lovely and cheerful person.

Do you know what my first impression of you was?

It was that you are a very weird and self-concerned person.

With tears streaming down his face, a young boy sat in the silence with red eyes and a peach coloured diary in his hands.

His appearance was as rumpled as it could possibly be, but this messiness could not hide the handsomeness he was born with.

His creased clothes were covered with blood, hair messily scattered around and his watch that had the logo SLL was hanging on his left hand.

The room was well lit and had one of the best and the finest quality supplies sand decorations as this was one of the very best hospitals in S city. But the environment still felt somewhat dark and melancholic despite all the lighting in the room.

He was holding a pale white hand that was attached to many different tubes.

***

Young Sara saw a gloomy boy who was in a way being dragged by a beautiful auntie by his right side.

The woman was dressed in an article of simple yet elegant clothing.

The auntie was really warm and loving the first thing she did upon reaching both Sarah and her mom was that she came up to Sarah and gave her two kisses on both of her cheeks and took her up in her arms.

"Hey there my sweetie cutie pie"

"Hello, Auntie!"

"You are getting prettier and prettier every time I see you"

"Thank you, auntie" somewhat understanding that she is praising her Sarah flashed a cute smile showing her canines and thanked her.

"How are you Sicella?" the auntie came up with a big smile on her face and hugged my mother.

"I'm great what about you? You stopped visiting and we also could not go there."

"I am sorry that I could not come here to see my cutie pie. And I have missed you a lot darling."

"I have missed you too auntie." replied little Sarah while giggling.

"Oh, Sicella your daughter is so cute. Why don't you just give her to me? I'd love to keep her with me forever. It would be so great to live with this cute doll."

"And why don't you give me your son? He is seriously so handsome and well mannered. I'd love to keep him with me if I could and we could play chess, brainstorming games, fight, code together. What do you say lil champ?"

"Yes."

"Hey, Sicella then let us do one thing."

"What?"

"Let's get them married in the future and then both of our wishes can come true."

"Oh my god, I had never thought of it that way!"

"Why? do you dissent with it? Actually, you know what it's quite normal for you to disagree. If I had such a cute little princess even I would not have wanted her to get married to a wall of brick"

"No I am not at all unhappy, but on the contrary, it'd be great if this really happens. And maybe she'll be able to break the walls he built around himself someday."

"Yeah, I hope your words become true in the future. For now, let's see what happens let's let them take the lead. And if they turn out to fall for each other then it would be amazing!".

Maybe our mothers never knew that what they were talking about among themselves and giggling about would be the very reason for tears on people's tears.

They did not know that one day these very things that they were so happily chatting about themselves will be the reason for a thousand eyes shedding countless numbers of tears.

The very reason for everyone's heartbreaks and the very reason for which a great price was to be filled.

At that time Liam I had no idea what marriage was.

But whatever it was I thought that I would just get acquainted with you and that alone made me happy.

Maybe the 5 year old me did not understand the emotion I was feeling because it was so small.

Who knew that a day will come when I would be dying to see just a glimpse of yours.

"Gosh, I was having a really hard time leaving there all alone. Now that I get to see and be with you I feel great!" said aunt Alinza

"Why alone? Didn't you have Liam and Mrs Kimling with you?"

"Mrs Kimling had to rush back to her hometown because of an emergency"

"And what about Liam? Wasn't he there with you? Then why did you feel lonely?"

"He?"

"Staying with him and staying alone with an old grumpy robot is the same."