Kris is a café owner. And Tao, well, he is a businessman. Sort of. As busy as businessmen should be, Tao never fails to have a bagel and a cup of coffee at Kris' café every morning. And then it's one of Kris' off nights and he's at a club partying like there's no tomorrow. Alcohol erases your memories, like it always does. But it brings on pain the next morning. That's the standard procedure and you need to be ready to face it. In the morning, your mind may bring you to a place where pixies frolick under the warm sun with a smiling face in the centre. But time and tide waits for no man. It's time to wake up and face this harsh reality called life. So, Kris finds himself lying on the parquet floor of his apartment, a red blanket draped over his and Tao's bodies. He has no idea how the latter got there, no memories, just looking around the apartment in a blank, blissful state.

But their claimed love goes all wrong. I mean, if you love something, let it go. Let it slip through your fingers like ash, like it's nothing but water. Watch if it returns, 'cause if it doesn't, then it was never yours to keep.

Entry for • ℕew Ƴear ~ Ɲew ʂtory • a writing competition

Prompts used: #004 : "It's hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember."

                       #005 : "If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it's yours to keep. If it doesn't, it was never yours in the first place."

                       #020 : "Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met."

 

 

Just wanna clear some doubts if any, this story is of Kris thinking back of his time together with Tao. At the end of every chapter there'll be the part written about Kris watching Tao in the hospital. Well  that signifies the end of the memory that comes back to him in each chapter.  :) 

Entry for ( SOLSTICE ) writing contest

Prompt Used:

36. I was the moon of your life. You were my sun and stars. But just like the sun and moon, we were never meant to share the same sky.