Midnight Reveries (Ishman/Shubish Oneshots)

Timeless tales

Watching the sunset, his hand in mine, but our status....just friends.

We were best friends since school. And what's the use of being best friends when you're not shipped by people who knows you.

This was our relationship. The straight guys acting not so straight.

Forehead and cheek kisses were our normal. We could hug in front of anyone, walk hand in hand anywhere.

We knew we were acting, but unknowingly, gradually everything had changed between us.

The cheek kisses wanted to be lip kisses. Our hugs wanted to scream how much we love each other.

But it could be our misunderstanding, that's what we thought and never tried acknowledging anything we could be having.

Time went by and our families started looking for suitable partners for us. It somehow didn't feel right, but it could have been the misunderstanding we had years ago.

Ignoring every knot forming in our hearts seeing each other with someone else, we tried being how we used to be earlier.

And that's how we were married to people we didn't love or could never love.

Now we have our own families -wife and children- which somehow feel like a cage. The cage of a relationship from which we could never escape.

Not that we don't love our families. We love them so much. But there is no way we could make this our right.

Sitting by the beach, watching our children building sandcastles, I reminisce my life decision.

If only I had said that to him. If only I had acknowledged my feelings when there was still some time.

The unsaid LOVE YOUs wanting to be said since eternity.

Watching the sunset, his hand in mine, but our status....just friends.