Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The Poetess

This is a re-post from my old blog.

Rick* and Ann*, though of extremely different personalities, were friends. Rick is painfully handsome, smart, athletic, artistic but a very shy guy. Ann, on the other hand, is equally smart, plain looking, clumsy and an art dork. But her lack of artistic talents, she compensates with her literary skills. She is also very sociable and very comfortable in anybody's company, quite contrary to her friend, Rick who seems to be walking on egg shells anywhere he went.

As traditional stories of friendship goes, Ann felt something more for Rick. Deeper than the love for a friend that she was sure Rick felt for her. As time passed by, Ann became more and more uncomfortable with Rick around. So, putting her writing prowess to use, she wrote a nice love letter signed RIA, her initials backward. She sent it to Rick whose address, of course, she knew. Surprisingly, she felt better after expressing her feelings and she was able to deal with Rick as comfortably as before. So, she sent another one, and another, and another..

Rick, however, was unsettled by the letters he was constantly receiving. He was touched by the emotions the writer freely expressed on the letters. He was dying to meet her, because for the first time in his life, he fell in love. Ann, being closest to him, was told of this. She was horrified. It couldn't be. It had to stop.

So, risking the friendship they had for a long time, she told him the truth, how she felt about him, how she wrote the letters under her initials backward and sent them, with the intentions of simply unburdening herself of the feelings that had been gnawing in her heart for quite some while.

Rick was stunned. It wasn't possible. RIA, his dear poetess couldn't be this girl sitting next to him. She must be someone else. They didn't talk about it again. They stayed the way they were, good buddies. They parted ways after college. Ann got married after a few years and had children while Rick is still a bachelor. I saw him about 10 months ago. He was looking for a writer for his company profile. He didn't mention it but I can feel, he's still thinking about RIA, that ONE GREAT WRITER, whom he fell in love with..

*Not real names



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