SS Iridescent (P19 - UPDATE 06/06) [Virman/Virika]

I finally found it; I finally found that place that I knew was out there. Call it nirvana, or paradise, heaven, or even Shangri-La, but I found it. It may have just been for a few fleeting moments but that doesn't change what it was or what we had… and what it was was truly breath taking.

Oh, what I wouldn't give to live in those dying moments where the slightest of touches was no less than ecstasy. But alas, what bittersweet love we shared. Our love was condemned and destroyed before it could flourish… but, I don't regret. I won't.

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And there he was, standing alight in all his glory. That shameless smile, those teasing eyes… From that first moment, it was obvious; the fates had written it for he was mine and I his. If only he saw it too like the way it was clear to me.

And I would have gladly danced the night away in his arms if it weren't for the presence of the other, but surprisingly there was no green eyed monster but just my well wishes for even if he chased away the destinies granted to us, one day he would come to realise that tempting fate will only go so far.

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Ever since I learnt of epiphanies as a child, never would I have gathered that my own would come in these circumstances where everything that was who I am no longer seemed relevant. Waking up that morning to the goddess in my arms, her unruly hair framing her sleeping face and her small palms splayed out on my torso… it was clear that everything that defined myself as me had somehow become obsolete in her presence.

And as she stirred, reality came crashing down upon me that maybe… maybe, this was love.

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As I sat down next to her, somehow in that moment when she looked towards me, we connected and for the first time I felt her sorrow and her pain. It hit me like a tsunami wave as the unshed tears glistened within her eyes and I felt infinitely small. My only thought was to somehow alleviate some of this wretched pain but it was beyond me.

There was this need deep inside; I didn't know how or why, but I needed to catch her from falling any further into the void she'd created for herself. Taking her hand, I held it tightly to reassure her that she wasn't alone. As long as I was there, she'd never be…