The Vendetta

With a tight brain, puzzled…

She sat alone… Wondering how it was…

Been solving puzzles always

Been accustomed to lay eyes on the best always

And then a sudden shock

More of a sudden behavior change

For which she never thought she would have to

Suffer so very much

Clenching her fists

And her chin tight

She sat fighting her tears

Trying to show she was strong

But was she?

No, she thought mutely

As the tear she was trying to hold finally dropped down

His words kept ringing in her ears

Should they matter really?

He had felt for her a couple of years back

And she never reciprocated

She tried to stay friends

Although a few harsh words had she said

When she’d tried to shoo him off

Should that have really mattered so?

Never realized he would hold a vendetta…

So harsh… so strong…

Words hurt harder than physical pain,

Something she knew since times…

“What were you, and where are you?

All your friends, whom you thought to be so,

Speak ill of you behind your back!

All of them… all of them…!

Feels great to return all the harsh words

That were just pending to get out to you

To try and fall your attitude

Because that’s what you deserve, bloody idiot…

Because that’s what you deserve…!”

Was what he said

She was sad and hurt and alone

Trying to figure what he’d said…

That wasn’t the boy she’d thought she’d known

“Things change so fast,” she thought…

“Or maybe,

I was wrong after all.”

A strong breeze came through the window

Setting her spine into a cold shudder

She cupped herself into her own arms

And thought of her best friends

Wondering if all that were true…

And like the lone chrysanthemum that stand in the ice

Hope sprang up in her heart

Paving the way to trust…

This is the time… this is the test…

None of them could feel so,

Her heart gave the verdict,

And a soft, pensive smile played on her face

And then came a call from her best friend

Not to hurt her

Or deepen her pain

To offer not a shoulder to cry

But a hand to get up

A hand to wipe her tear

“I now know my true friends…

I now know me…”