The Tribulations of Romeo

December 21, 2121

19:31 pm

The moon was fully out. Shining its brightest, even though it was not a full moon. Down below and basking in the moonlight sat a solitary shed located in a remote part of a vast, beautiful forest. Few meters from the shed ran a stream that shimmered a lovely silver color as it ran slowly across the creek that bordered it. Here and there, were a few rocks that glistened with a mysterious hue, hinting at the possibility of something being special about them.

A light breeze blew, bringing with it a light, soft giggle and a low, much deeper laugh followed right after.

“You can’t just do that. It will get you in trouble with the Elders.” A soft, feminine voice said.

“I don’t care.” The owner of the deep laugh replied. “It won’t be my first time facing the council anyway.”

“Still…” The feminine voice tried to raise a point, but the masculine voice interrupted.

“Relax! Nothing will go wrong this time. I promise!”

“That’s not reassuring!”

“What do you mean?”

“You always break your promises.”

“No, I don’t.” The deep voice drawled.

“The second you say, ‘you promise’, that promise is doomed to be broken.”

The owner of the deep voice had nothing to say to that. He looked at Mona’s beautiful face, who had just spoken, with deep brown eyes and a small smile that somehow spoke waves of the thousands of mischievous thoughts battling for supremacy in his head.

“That can’t be true!” He denied. “I have kept my promises a couple of times.”

Mona looked him straight in the eye and made a request,

“Give me a valid example.”

“Uh?” He exclaimed, surprised. “Uh……”

He tried to think of all the times he had promised. His very active brain immediately brought him thousands of instances, all of which were made in the short twenty-one years of his existence. Since he was the one thinking it, he could not lie to himself. His brain not only plated back the promises in their thousands within a few seconds, but it also took the liberty of sorting and arranging the times each broken promise was broken. After only half a minute of thinking, he came to a shocking realization. There was not a promise he made that he had not, at one time or the other, broken.

So, he looked straight back into Mona’s eyes and replied with a smile.

“I can’t think of any right now. But, I am dead sure there are few instances where I actually kept my promises. And even I have never, this will definitely be my first.”

Mona looked away.