Ep-1
"No one knows why they are alive until they know what to die for"
-Martin Luther King
Rain pours down the streets as a faint classical tune is played inside the art gallery
Both Reize and Emris are sitting in different rooms
Assistant Dina
*serves hot tea to Reize* Mrs Director..... I am waiting for an explanation
Reize
*trembling while biting her lips* Why do I have to explain myself to you? *speaks with apathy*
Assistant Dina
(I don't want to admit but Reize is a capable director. I didn't even think it was possible for her to be this scared and distraught that her forsaken apathy is seeping out again)
Assistant Dina
I am sorry, I overstepped my boundaries. I will go and serve tea to our guest then
Reize
You're my assistant, you don't need to do these menial tasks. Have someone prepare hot chocolate for him, he doesn't like tea
Assistant Dina
(and she still wants me to not be curious, huh?)
Reize
(Have I overworked myself? What type of hallucinations am I even seeing now! Emris is dead so who is this?)
Reize
*her heartbeats go faster and higher, leaving her grasping for air*
Emris
*averts eyes* I don't know what you are talking about, Director
Emris
I just realized I have some important work to do at home, I must go as soon as possible
Reize
3 years with you and 5 years searching for you, you think I will mistake you for someone else?
Emris
*puts a cap on his head*
Emris
Mrs Director, I really have to go. Please don't stop me
Reize
No, Emris wait. You can't! You can't go like that!
Emris
And who are you to stop me from going, huh?! Just because you are paying me doesn't mean that you have the ability t-
Reize
You can't go right now because it's raining and you came without an umbrella
Emris
*flushes with embarrassment* I will leave as soon as the rain subsides
Assistant Dina
(can't he just take a taxi? Don't tell me he is too broke to afford that. How did the Director even get someone of his standard inside our building?)
Reize
Dina, let him stay in the room beside mine. I suppose he has finished up his work for today anyway
Assistant Dina
Well they do need some finishing touches but yes, for the most part
Emris
*strides over to an empty room without sparing a glance at the surroundings*
Reize
(how, just how?! Even after all this searching I didn't catch a whiff of him at all. And now he decides to drop off on my life out of nowhere? Is he even doing well? From the looks of it, he seems to be even frailer than before. Who does he live with? Does he live alone? Who takes care of him? He isn't the type who can...)
Assistant Dina
(she has been mindlessly hazed in anxiety since an hour now, tapping around the floors)
Reize
Dina, how much pain do you think a memory of the past can give you?
Assistant Dina
Huh? That came out of nowhere. I guess as long as you continue to love and yearn for the past, the memory will continue to haunt you
Reize
*shows a weary smile* so he won't be hurt right?
Assistant Dina
What do you even mean?
Reize
*her eyes wander off to the glass windows*
Reize
It was a rainy day also when he....
Rain is heavily pouring from the skies. The streets are desolate as winds blow over and turn into howls
A lone man stands near the river, talking with someone over the phone
Reize
[On the phone]: Why have you called me now? Didn't I tell I will be out with my friends tonight?
The female voice over the phone sounds annoyed and grumpy
Voice over the phone: Reize, come back already! Why are you even wasting your time on that boyfriend of yours. He is such a klutz, he won't know what we're doing here
Voice over the phone: He will believe whatever you say anyway
Hahahahaaaaa
Reize
*whispering* Oh just shut up.
[To the phone] You disturb me and dare to stay silent? What's it? Tell already
Emris
What are you doing exactly, Reize?
Reize
*getting annoyed* Didn't I just tell you I am with my friends?!
Emris
Have you ever loved me truly, Reize?
Reize
(why is he calling my name so much today?)
Reize
If you have nothing to talk about, I am hanging up
Emris
Reize, you haven't said you love me a single time after we started dating
Reize
Has going to your village made you mad? Come back to the city already, your apartment room must be reeking of dust and filth by now
Emris
Reize, I really love you. Please say that you love me
Reize
You have really lost it. I am hanging up
Voice over the phone: Darling, why are you wasting your time on that pushover of a boyfriend when you have me?
Reize
*whispering* stop with that cheesy act and wh- *cuts phone*
Reize
What darling? Who are you calling darling? And don't even talk about him in that way
Emris
(So even at the very end, you chose to not say the words. Who is the man with you? Do I even have the right to ask, even though I am your boyfriend?)
Emris
*smiling to himself* Reize, I would never return home again.
A splash is heard in the river along with a loud thud
Emris
Why was I so afraid of losing you.....when you never belonged to me
Emris
*closing his eyes* It all ends now....Rei
Comments