Saturday, June 28, 2008

Love Actually...........


Marky has been in love with Juliet ever since. But Juliet is married to Marky's best friend, James. The beauty of it is that Juliet actually doesn't know about this and had thought that Marky was gay all along, reason being he acted unfriendly towards her most of the time. On the couple's wedding, Marky was the photographer and videoman. And he actually turned down Juliet's requests a few times to watch the wedding video. One day, on the pretext of offering donuts to him, she managed to get her hands on the video. To her surprise, the video captured all her images instead of the marriage. My, that was love buried deep down in the heart. On Christmas eve, this is actually what happens:


Knock on the door and Juliet opens. The streets are brightly lit with neon lights and houses were decorated with Christmas trees and presents. Chrismassy, love is in the air...
Juliet: Oh, Hi!
Marky turns on his stereo lightly playing 'Silent Night'. He stood in front of Juliet and looked her straight in her eyes. On his hands were about 8 to 9 big white cardboards the length of a man's chest. Still looking into her eyes, he held up the first cardboard with the words 'WITH ANY LUCK NEXT YEAR'. Juliet is puzzled. The other cardboards go like this as he showed it one by one to her...
2nd: I'LL BE GOING OUT WITH ONE OF THESE GIRLS...
3rd: PICTURES OF JENNIFER ANISTON, CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, MONICA BELUCCI.
She laughed...the carol continues...
4th: BUT FOR NOW...LET ME SAY...
5th: WITHOUT HOPE OR AGENDA
6th: JUST BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS
7th: (AND AT CHRISTMAS YOU TELL THE TRUTH)
8th: TO ME YOU ARE PERFECT
Juliet was stunned for a moment. Her facial expression exhibited emotions of being loved, thankful, appreciative and most of all touched. She hadn't thought that he is so in love with her. Marky continues with the cardboards.
9th: AND MY WASTED HEART WILL LOVE YOU
10th: UNTIL YOU LOOK LIKE THIS...
11th: PICTURE OF AN OLD, WRINKLED WOMAN


She laughed again...He made her laughed.
And the last cardboard shows the words: 'MERRY CHRISTMAS'.
At that point, with tears in her eyes, Juliet uttered 'Merry Christmas' back to Marky too. There were so much emotions involved. Marky knowing that he can only love her deep inside his heart forever. And Juliet can only be appreciative of such a sweet guy since situation does not allow more than that.


Marky smiled back to her, packed up his stereo, cardboards and said goodbye. Just when he was ten steps away from the door, Juliet rushed over and pulled him by his coat. She gently planted a kiss on his lips and with one last look into his eyes, said 'Thank you' and hurried back home. Marky sighed for not being able to love her but said to himself 'Enough...that's more than enough...' He's contented though, with a kiss from the woman he loves most. Who doesn't?

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