"We Hugged As if we Would Never Let Go"

  I had to pretend like I was asleep. But I couldn't keep my eyes shut. I counted each second ticking away in the clock. No one was home. He had gone to the airport to receive them. I knew I didn't have to wait the whole night for them to come but something kept me awake.

But then....at around 1 o clock...my conscience told me she had come....she was here....I heard a car pull into the parking in the middle of the treacherously silent night.

The subtle key turn in the door.....the sound of rustling in....the one whom I long awaited was finally here. Yet I feared of having to get up and be discovered of not sleeping so I kept the blanket over my head and just listened as silent as the night. My mind was racing with thoughts, my heart was racing with emotions yet I stayed as still and as quiet as a mouse

I could hear her retire to her own bed.

The next morning when I woke up, I pretended to be surprised by her arrival. I ran up to her and hugged her so passionately as ever . She abruptly started crying but I was fighting back tears so hard I felt my throat would burst with the lump rising in it.

That hug. I could begin with a whole sublime poem to describe it. The hug with such mixed feelings of happiness and sadness. The hug I had missed for six months.

We hugged as if we would never let go.