Those evening strolls had become a routine and doing them helped me to relax and reflect on the days activities while casually planning for the next day.
These walks would be incomplete without me plugging my ear pods and listening to my favourite playlist on spotify. I am less concerned about my environment but not totally unaware of the happenings, just not interested.
It was another Sunday evening and not a lot happened but it would not stop me from having my routine walk but on that very day I decided to take a more busy street, a decision I was bound to regret later on.
While admiring a beautiful car that screamed of class, I saw her in the back seat. Being driven by a chauffeur whom I knew looked better and richer than me. She deliberately wound down her window glass for me to see her.
She was pretty as ever and seemed to have glowed up as a result of improved quality of life.
She saw me see her, which was the most painful part and I wished I had skipped that evening stroll, it would not have hurt to miss one evening.
She kept her face as passive as she could for as long as she could but then, her lips parted into a smile, a wicked smile filled with pride.
A smile that seemed to say "I am glad I left you, loser".
I didn't say a word and neither did she but the unspoken words were loud enough. Loud enough to resonate in my head several minutes later.
In that moment I wondered why lovers drift apart. Why do we move from not going a day without communicating to going weeks and months away from each other and yet be very comfortable. I have seen this play out several times and I have been at the centre of a few myself.
I discontinued my playlist and switched to "somebody that I used to know" by Gotye. Why not? She is just from my past and I should not dwell on the memories of the past. No matter how pleasant it seemed. I was certain that she did not think of me nor the memories we shared back then. I don't even believe that she remembered her promises of being with me through thick and thick, that liar.
The song by Gotye would later become my routine song for my routine walks as it always prepared me for any eventualities especially as it concerned meeting her again.
Needless to say that I stopped taking walks on Sundays until I left that neighbourhood.
I am now back to my routine without fear of having any soul crushing meetings and not just that, I am currently talking to someone prettier and doing much better than I was back then.
And now I feel know that the only way from here is up.
I am careful of promises now, especially when made in moments of joy and happiness as I have learnt from past experience. I take it all with a pinch of salt.
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STOPLove gets cold at times, it's painful especially when we think about the memories but then, we forge ahead.
I'm happy you found yourself a better girl, you owe me the gist😅