Whatever happened to AI?

It had been many years since I had last seen her face. Emily had been my first and only love. We were childhood sweethearts and grew up in the same neighbourhood. I walked to the café around the corner.I was sure she would be there. That was where I used to see her almost everyday. I remembered how I had lost her to Alfred.

Alfred was the neighbourhood macho man. All of us boys hated him while all the girls worshipped him.There were two things about him that appealed to them.One was his muscles and the other was his never-ending supply of money. Though he could have had any gir he wanted, he had an eye for Emily. I think he hated me because Emily would not even look at him.

One day I was with Emily in the park when two thugs confronted us. They grabbed hold of Emily and demanded my money. I was not much good in a fight so I took the safe way out: I took out my wallet and gave it to them. They laughed as they took it. Then suddenly, I heard a voice behind me: Alfred. He leapt at the thugs and I could see him punching them left and right. One thug fell and then got up and ran. The other thug ran after his friend. With a sarcastic grin, Al handed my wallet to me. I thanked him and turned to Emily.She just stood there and glared at me. Suddenly she shouted,”You coward.”

I shuddered at her words. She had not realised that one reason I did not fight was that I was afraid that she might get hurt. I stood still and looked at her.Then Alfred went forward, took her by the arm and led her away. I stood there for a while and then walked away in a daze. I never recovered from that. After that I read an advertisement that asked for volunteers to teach in a remote village in Nepal. I volunteered and within a month left the country. While I was away, I did not write to anyone, not even to my family.

I stood outside the café and looked in. No Emily.I turned to go and someone laid an arm on mine.turned and found myself looking into Emily’s eyes. I recovered quickly and smiled. She looked thinner now and older but she had the same softness in her eyes.”It was a put on,” she said. I looked at her quizzically.”Alfred was no hero. He had arranged for the thugs to put on a drama to get to me. I discovered that only after you lett. One of the thugs called and told me everything. It seems that Alfred had promised to pay and then had refused to. He had dared them to tell me;being sure that I would not believe them. But I did.”

I sighed and looked at her. “I am sorry. Will you ever forgive me?” she said softly and bowed her head.I lifted her head up by her chin and looked into her eyes. “I have never loved anyone but you,” I whispered.She fell into my arms and I hugged her for a long time while the crowd in the café clapped. Then I pushed her away gently and asked, “Whatever happened to Al?”

“Who cares?” she said and fell into my arms again.

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