One shot story

A loud cry can be heard from a bar "Luke, I don't understand why our small disagreements about little things always turn into big fights. I don't want to lose him" Cyrynn cried as she leaned on Luke's shoulder. "Fighting over things is part of the relationship. You know there are no perfect relationships, just like tea the taste will never be perfect for everyone's preference. Some people like their tea salty, some prefer bitter more, and there are people who don't even like tea." Luke replied as he said it carefully to Cyrynn. Deep inside Luke is secretly hiding his feelings for her while trying to comfort her, who only saw Luke as his childhood best friend and never looked at him as a man.

Luke accompanied Cyrynn to her house and knocked at the door, the door was opened by Cyrynn's mom who quickly rushed to help Luke carry her to the bed. Cyrynn’s mom asked him of what happened then Luke explained as carefully as he can to not destroy the relationship Cyrynn has with her boyfriend and had a bit of catch up after that. Cyrynn’s mom then sees off Luke as he leaves to go home.

The moment he arrived at his apartment and shut his door, he sat and cried because of how things are. How he doesn’t have much of a fortune to afford a car, not being rich and living in his own house, and that all he doesn’t have are things that are owned by Cyrynn’s horrible boyfriend. But deep inside his heart he knows even if Cyrynn doesn’t open up to him Luke can understand what is going on her mind. And he always asked in his mind “there’s nothing between us, why can’t we?”. Every time she gets in danger Luke always comes to the rescue and becomes her temporary pillow, every time she is having a hard time he is always there for Cyrynn to be her handkerchief, and every time she fights with her boyfriend Luke is there to comfort her. But at the end he knows he’ll always just be a friend to Cyrynn. “It’s so hard to reach you from the dark, just who between us two do you really... I’m just a temporary handkerchief, just a fill-in for what he could not do, just your caretaker. I finally managed to accept the bitter truth for the best interest of our connection".

It's been 7 years and Luke finally became the Psychiatrist he always dreamed to be, while Cyrynn graduated and managed to be a public accountant and just broke up with her boyfriend. But things after that started to change, Cyrynn started getting cold towards everyone, even towards Luke he doesn't know what led to her becoming like this. Months later, Cyrynn disappeared no one knows her whereabouts even her own parents Luke decided to embark on a journey to find Cyrynn and bring her back he felt guilty of Cyrynn's disappearance because he thought that "Maybe if I asked why she stopped telling me her problems and checked up on her then maybe.. maybe she wouldn't have disappeared" several months passed by.. And then Luke saw a glimmer of hope, a miracle he was wishing for, he saw Cyrynn in the background of a foreign news. He quickly flew to the country and searched for her thoroughly, finally his efforts paid off. He saw Cyrynn getting wasted on a bar and some bastards trying to spike her drink. He quickly ran and took Cyrynn on his back and went to a nearby inn. He cooked up a hangover soup for her and gave her black coffee to sober up, Cyrynn finally got back to her senses and saw Luke. Tears started to flow from Cyrynn's eyes as she couldn't believe that someone finally found her and she hugged Luke tightly while crying. Luke cried together with her and said "we have a lot of things to catch up with". The two started chatting together and Luke spent weeks trying to get Cyrynn back in shape, then Luke finally managed to confess his feelings to Cyrynn. But, it didn't went that well Cyrynn told Luke that she still isn't ready to be in a relationship and will take time to heal, Luke replied "If it's you, I can wait even till your hair turns white" the two continued to spend time together and some time later they both moved in the same home but still remained as good friends, no one knows how long it'll take but there surely is more waiting for the story of the two. We always have that one "handkerchief" person of our life who saw our tears of joy and sorrow for a long time, maybe they don't shine as much as those jewelry we have but in our darkest times they glow brighter than the sun always there to listen and comfort us.

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