Chapter 5 Who's The One

"Honey, where is your mind lost?" he asked as he gave me a kiss on my forehead.

"Well, my mind is lost in the memories, you know in the old memories; and all that stuff" I replied as I rested my head near his neck.

"Well; why you're mind always gets lost in all those thinks? I mean that was like six or seven years ago! That's a very very long time!" he said as he kissed me on my forehead.

"Yeah I....I know; but I can't help it! I am just...... you know too much into it!" I said.

"Oh sweetie; just relax. Do you remember what I said when we met for the very first time?" he asked.

"Ah.....! I am sorry I - I seriously don't remember it" I replied.

"Well I said that "people are important with who we are and not the place", now you remember?" he asked.

"Yeah! And then you said that you are talking such nice thinks and this line will be your status; but apparently it wasn't" I replied.

"So what was my status?" he asked out of curiosity.

"Well it was like " I am smiling, angry, happy, feeling like crying, God I am so confused!" and I knew why you used every word" I replied as I reminded him the old things.

"Well why?" he asked.

"Hm, well, let's see; smiling because you met me, angry because you had to leave and feeling like crying because you didn't wanted to leave me" I replied.

"Oh my god! I don't believe it; you still remember all those things! I bet you remember the date too!" he said.

"Ah well thanks for putting up your hopes but I don't actually remember the date" I said.

"Hm! I never knew; that you can lie that well! No but seriously what was the date?" he asked.

"Ah sixth of April" I replied.

"I knew it that you remembered the date!" he said as he got wild with excitement.

"Yeah! I am a memory collector. You know; I believe in the fact that no matter what ever happens, memories never leave your side; and that's the reason that they are so precious to me" I said.

"Yeah I know! I obviously know how much these things mean to you. And you know all of your these little things made me fall for you" he said.

"Ah I know" I replied as I smiled at him.

"Well, I know that you know but do you know what I know that you know that I know?" he asked.

"What's your point?" I asked.

"Well I just wanna know, that do you know, that I know, that you know, that I know?" he asked.

"Derin Jacob what do you know?!" I asked.

"Well..." he paused.

"Make it fast; I am not liking that suspense, not even a bit!" I shouted.

"Well the point that I love you to the moon and back and even more than the words can express" he said as he gave me a smile.

"Well I know that" I replied as I smiled back at him.

And that was the moment when our smiles met and then our eyes and then slowly and steadily our breaths met and finally our lips.

It was our moment; the moment which no one could ever steal. All this way; down this long road, which was full of up's and down's, when he was kissing me; all which was going in my mind was all about the long journey. In this journey there were times when we fell apart, we broke up, I got mad at him, people from past came in between; and the people belonged from his past not mine; there were times when my moral and ethics came in between and there were times when he used the harsh words like " I don't have feelings for you" and what not, but, after so much of struggles, here we were, together from seven years.

"You ok, honey?" he asked as he slid his head apart from mine.

"Well my head was kind of lost again" I replied as I took a deep sign of relief.

"Oh my god! Seriously! But I thought that your head was right in my hand" he said in a playful tone.

"No Derin I am serious. My head was all lost remembering those day when I texted you and your ex replied my messages" I said.

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

"Well you remember when for two weeks you went to England?" I asked.

"Hm; was that for a wedding?" he inquired.

"Yeah!" I replied.

"Uh huh; yeah I totally remember it!" he said.

"Well at that time I was writing or more on working on a new piece; you know by piece I mean a new novel; and I mentioned you as one of the main characters and I took a screen short and sent that to you" I said.

"Hm" he hummed.

"And I got a reply which said

Hi I am Janice; Derin's girlfriend and by the way his eyes are light brown not dark and he have bands on his right hand not on left" and when I read this I was like "You daughter of a bitch!" and I replied her that you were my boyfriend not her...."

"Hm" he said.

"And she was like you are mistaken he is my boyfriend and that's the reason I have his password and all that blah - blah - blah" I said.

"Hm" he said as he continued humming.

"Then I was like bro cool down! Then I was like no he broke up with you because you cheated on him and now he is with me" I said.

"Hm" he said as he hummed again.

"Then she was like no we are committed since December and I was like whatever."

"Hm" he hummed as he pressed his down lip.

"Then she texted me on WhatsApp; she was like no you came in between and stay away and I will help you to get over all your misunderstandings and you better stay away from him or I will come to your place and show all the messages exchanged between you and Derin to your parents; and she claimed that she read all our messages" I said as I completed the story.

"Oh honey - honey relax it was like seven years ago or even more" he said as he jumped up and sat upright.

"I know! I know but I just cannot stop myself from thinking about it" I said as I got up and sat next to him.

"You know..." he paused; "Wait a minute! You still think about all those thinks?!" he added as he turned and faced me. I could see; his eye's were open, they were wide open and I had nothing else to say.

"Stacy Mickle Mecacy! You are not suppose to think about the thinks which happened in the past. I mean you know that proverb, right, which says "Yesterday was a history; tomorrow is a mystery but today will be what we make it!" he said in a high pitched voice.

"Derin, honey, look I know these things, okay? I just cannot help myself over it. You know it's just in my head that if...you know; if you can leave me once then you can leave me again" I said as I looked down; and a tear drop rolled down from my left my eye.

Years ago I read somewhere that, if you cry and the first tear drop comes from your left eye, that means; you are crying out of pain.

And to me, at that very point; I was crying out of pain. In my heart I knew that no one have that much of power to separate us, but somewhere in my head; I had the point that if he could leave me onces then he can leave again. Anytime or any minute I could loose him. And this time; forever.

"Honey..... you..... you actually are crying. I mean; Wow! In all these years nothing could break you down but today you are crying because of me! I..... I don't even have words to describe how I feel" he said as he gave me a hug.

"So you are proud of yourself, uh?" I asked him as I was sobbing.

"Well I am not proud of myself; I kind of feel terrible!" he replied.

"Seriously? Because you don't need to" I said.

"Why I don't need to? I mean I made you cry! You are seriously crying because of me! And that's not at all good!" he said as he got mad at himself.

"Derin relax; I am not actually crying because of you, I am crying because in my head all those things are going on. You know whatever happened in the past" I said as I wiped my tears.

"But in the past many things had happened and you are not crying on all those things; you are just crying on a particular thing and it's-it's you know it's about me" he said.

"I-I know! You know what forget about all this! Let's change our mood! Let's just get back into the fun mood and you know pizza will be here any minute so we should look forward to that!" I said as I rubbed my eyes and did my best to lift up our mood.

"Yeah, I guess you're right!" he said.

"Hm, and....." I was interpreted as I headed the sound of the bell.

"I guess it must be the pizza. You go and answer the door and I'll follow you" I said as I completed my statement.

"You will follow me? Why?" he asked as he kept his feet down and slipped it into his slippers.

"Uh; because the mean while you will take the pizza I will bring the cash to pay him!" I replied as I gave him an acknowledging look.

"Yeah; right! You actually sometimes make good points!" he said as he accepted my acknowledgement.

"What do you mean by sometimes?! I always make good points!" I said as I made him realise that in what kind of a rut his statement had landed him into.

"I'll go and bring the pizza" he said as he made an effort to get himself out of the mess before I could kick his ass.

"Yeah sure!" I replied as I gave him an evil smile; to make his realise the point that this discussion wasn't over.

And as I said he gave me a weak smile and stood up for the bed. He then marched out of the room and rushed to open the door. And as soon as he left, I picked my wallet up and followed him downstairs. As he reached near the door; he found me next to him, accompanying him.

"So; open the door" I said as I engrossed myself in my wallet as I was searching for hundred dollars.

"Okay I am opening the door" he said as his right hand headed towards the door nob. And as his hand reached their, he rotated the nob towards the right side to unlock the door, as the door was unlocked he pulled it towards him and opened it.

"Surprise!" we heard a bunch of voices and as I heard them I raised my head up; from my wallet.

It was Troy, Ross, Rachel and Monica.

"What the hell you people are doing here?!" I asked them in an angry and annoyed tone.

"Well we are here to spend time with both of you" Ross replied.

"But non of you are welcomed here!" I said as my anger busted.

"Stacy, honey, we all are really really sorry for all the mess we made today" Rachel said as she interrupted the conversation.

"Sorry! Do any of you even know what that means!" I said as I was criticizing them.

"Stacy let them in" Derin commanded, as he pulled me away from the door; making room for them to enter.

"Ah thank you so, so much Derin for letting us in" Monica said as she thanked him.

And behind her everyone entered and made themselves comfortable on the couch.

"Oh and yeah we brought you a pizza!" Troy said as he tried to light up my mood.

"Ah! That's funny! Because me and Stacy just ordered a pizza!" Derin replied as he understood what Troy was trying to do.

"Ah I know!" Troy replied as he placed the pizza on the table.

"How are you suppose to know that?" Derin asked as he didn't understood Troy's reply.

"Well, this is the same pizza you guys ordered" he said as he brushed his left hand against his hair.

"What?!" Derin asked as he got a rough idea in his head about what Troy was saying.

"Actually as when we were coming here, we saw a pizza guy and I got an idea in my head that you both must had ordered a pizza. So we stopped him in between and asked him that was he giving the delivery here and he said yes so I paid and brought the pizza" Troy said and as he said all the doubts in Derin's head were cleared.

"What?! You stopped that guy in between and took the pizza away?!" Derin asked as he thought that what Troy did was the most idiotic thing anyone could ever do.

"Yeah I did that. So what's wrong in that? I mean I paid that guy! I didn't just opened his bag, took the pizza out and ran away with it!" Troy replied as he was trying to prove the point that whatever he did was not that stupid or idiotic.

"Troy, the point that you paid the guy is ok. But you stopped him; is stupid and idiotic and a total immature thing!" Derin said as he was trying to explain Troy that whatever he did was not having any excuse or explanation; and in all sense it was wrong.

"But I didn't....." Troy paused as I came in between.

"Will you guys stop fighting? I mean your fight is idiotic and stupid! And in no sense any of you will be proven right! And I am just realising that we asked for a coke too. Where is it Troy?" I asked as I turned my eyes and noticed the point that the coke was missing.