Blue Ribbon Beauty - The Story: Second Time Around

She just glared at the face in front of her. Her mouth gasping like she needed to say something but she couldn't put her finger on it.

He pulled some space between the chair and her table and sat down.

'Hello..', he said with a faint smile on his face.

He had shorter black hair than most of his counterparts. And face wounded by time. Nonetheless he contained some handsome quality in his physical nature.

'I thought you had left me for good', she said finally. Still startled by his appearance in front of her after all those years of passion, true love and intense feelings that had nurtured their souls.

'I never left you for a moment', he went. 'I never lifted my eye off of you, you of all people should know that'.

She didn't know what to think anymore. She had totally forgotten the position she is in now in her current state - engaged to get married and talking to someone whom she barely talked to at some coffeeshop which made her feel important in her life.

Her mind was processing everything. Questions to be asked. Answers she wanted to know about. Situations gone and left. Tales of lives, in the wind.

'Where were you all this time?', she then asked.

'Circumstances', he replied.

Circumstances. Yeah, right. As if that would pass by her. Circumstances which he had to get over and get done with. True circumstances. His father had passed away recently. His mother was ailing sick. And his family needed most of all. The last thing on his mind was to rekindle the affair that he shown his heart's true to another woman.

Circumstances.

She gave a dry smile and looked down into her drink which was getting cold from not being drunk.

'A year and a half ago if you were to come up to me and say that you wanted me to wait for you considering the circumstances you were or are still in, I would have stood by you and backed you up..', she said. 'But now..', she raised her right hand in front of him and turned it around, ' ..it's probably, too late', with that showed him her engagement ring.

Circumstances.

It was that what brought him to her in the first place. Thinking that he had found the only and only true love of his life. It was the circumstances that took him away from her, too.

It was the circumstances that lead him to this coffeeshop in the first place.

'Good luck with your life..', ending the slight conversation with him getting off his chair, and leaving the coffeeshop.

Circumstances will always lead
Further to places that hearts will heed
The passion will never burn
The beauty of love is just a flame
True love will never die
And you will find out when it will be your day