City of love

That's the thing about this city, people come here, people fall in love , people move apart, people go their separate ways.

But thats not what happened with Jason and Amelie.

They met here too.

Jason a little sluggish, sad, self sabotaging kind.

Amelie sweet, smart, altruistic kind.

Not the perfect match you would imagine but a beautiful one nevertheless.

They met under the eiffel tower, a little cliché place to meet? Sure.

Jason sitting in the park.

Amelie sitting on the bench.

Jason in a pensive mood, preoccupied with his thoughts.

Amelie reading a book.

Jason looks at amelie, then at the book in her hand, 'hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy', a personal favorite of his. He looks at amelie again who's clearly enjoying the book.

He isn't aware but just a moment ago amelie had also looked at him.

Amelie notices that Jason is wearing a t -shirt with a print 'galactic cluster of happiness' which as she will later notice is quite wrongly descriptive of the person wearing it.

Anyways she finds it cute.

He now approaches her, with a heart beat of atleast 210.

"That's a good book" says Jason and immediately realizes what an irrevocably stupid thing has just left his mouth. It is obviously a good book thats why she's reading it.

"Yeah" replies Amelie with the sweetest smile Jason has ever seen.

"Have you read it?" she asks

Not anticipating a question Jason stammers

"Y... yes"

And this is how they first met.

Jason though sluggish was exceptionally good at playing violin, guitar, piano amongst other instruments and knew French,German,Spanish and Latin.

Amelie though smart neither knew how to play instruments nor any of those languages. So clearly she found those traits quite appeasing.

Just as a side note, let me add that after the universe was created supernova started to occur and new stars were created and new planets were created. Many of the molecules in our bodies come literally from stars which died in those supernova so in a way we are made of literal stardust and coincidentally many molecules of Jason and Amelie came from the same star, they shared stardust, but didn't realize this of course as all this happened way before their memory goes.

So anyways after their first rather awkward meeting they met again now at a coffee shop. They recognized each other instantly, both their heart rates 210 now.

The girl with a good book and the boy with deep thoughts.

They chatted again, now in a manner that wasn't painful to watch.

If you looked closely you could see Jason beaming, his eyes had a sparkle, which came almost never but with Amelie it was constant.

They shared numbers and decided to meet again the next day.

Quite the same events transpired the following day, they chatted about their interests Jason told amelie about his instruments collection, Amelie told Jason about her book collection.

And this went on,

Jason greeted amelie in French, a smile covered Amelie's face.

Amelie read an excerpt from a poem she loved, a smile covered Jason's face.

And this went on,

Jason wrote a song for amelie

Amelie wrote a poem for Jason

And this went on,

Jason kissed amelie

Amelie kissed Jason

And this went on..

A new zeal had filled Jason his self destructive' sad self seemed to have gone into a period of suspended development. You could see his incandescent face now, rather than the usual morose that he carried. He moved around in a haste, a haste to meet amelie again.

But you know all lovestories have crests and troughs

And their trough came.

They sat at the same coffee shop they had on the second day of their meeting.

"I'm going to my cousins wedding next week, we should go together" Amelie said

"What?" Jason paused

"Um... I'm not sure"

"Why?" Amelie asked

"It'll look like we're official or something" Jason blurted

"Aren't we?" Amelie asked

"I mean its a little casual don't you think"

"What do you mean?"

"I guess we'll be in a hurry if we made things official like this"

And so their disagreement began

Jason being sluggish not able to make up his mind

Amelie being smart having made up her mind

They didn't talk for a week

The wedding came near

Amelie texted Jason

Jason still unsure, didn't reply. An act he would probably not forget.

Amelie sent jason a voice message.

"If that's you decision" she whispered, clearly sobbing

"Goodbye."

And that was it.

She flew away to the wedding leaving behind a sad, self destructive Jason.

Another week passed.

Jason texted Amelie

No reply

Jason called Amelie

No answer

Jason went to Amelie's house and stood on the doorsteps.

It started to rain(of course)

Amelie saw Jason from the window of her room.

Jason saw Amelie from the window of her room.

Amelie came downstairs and stood at the door

Jason started to speak.

"I had killed myself. I had killed myself in my head and there was no my 'self' left. I was functioning not out of want or desire but out of compulsion. I was hopeless. I was like schrodinger's cat, dead and not dead at the same time. Then I met you, the ray of hope in my hapless, miserable life . You made me not dead, you made me happy.

I never understood how you were so untouched from the preposterous misery that surrounded me. I probably didn't deserve you. I probably wasn't supposed to meet you but, ah the universe is deterministic I guess, you were supposed to read that book at that instant I was supposed to come and interrupt you, my stupid ass was supposed to fall in love with you, and you were supposed to save me. I hope maybe just maybe you would come back too, maybe the universe would be merciful enough to give me my lifeline back. I know don't deserve a second chance but please come back. I don't seem to able to breathe nowadays, there seems to be a paucity of oxygen around me.

I know I'm stupid and dumb and indecisive and whatever shitty adjective you can think of but I love you, I love you more than anything I've ever loved before, I love you more than the love even imaginable to me.

Please come back.

Please don't leave me.

Please."

And mind you he said all of this without a single break.

Tear drops quite of the same size as the ones coming from the sky came rolling down from Amelie's eyes.

Amelie walked towards Jason.

Amelie hugged Jason.

Jason hugged amelie.

Amelie kissed Jason

Jason kissed amelie

And somewhere in the universe a gas cloud was elated for her molecules were reuniting in the most desirable of connections with the most beautiful of human emotions.

Love.