Chapter 2 GOING DOWN THE MEMORY LANE

Jason remembered...

It was snowing that fateful day. Jason had been running as fast as he could. He was weaving through the bushes and even as thorns were prickling him, he paid no attention to them and focused on where he was heading to. What he had in front of him was far higher than what he was facing that moment in the hands of the prickling thorns.

Jason had just received news about his lover, Amy. He had been told that she had been kidnapped by an unknown fellow who took her to the same bush which he was treading right then. Jason had to save his lover as quickly as he could.

He hurried towards the path and practically flew on his way. He was stressed up and the only thought which kept him going was that of having Amy backing his arms.The love between Amy and Jason were the greatest. Both of them could die for your each other. Such a thing as perfect as their love was uncommon and probably that was why faced so many difficulties.

In those days, Jason could remember that he was quite young and with burning passion. Amy then was also a very beautiful fellow to look upon. She was smart and quite jovial. They both had met at a get together and it had been love at first sight. Jason had been the first person of the couple to confess his love for the other.

Amy then was very caring and kind to a fault. She could give someone the shirt off her back. He kindness knew no bounds and that was probably what lured Jason to her. Quite surprisingly, they had both managed to work things out between them and they stood strong in love. Their love for each other was well cemented.

Things had however started to go wrong with the couple's life when they started to plan marriage. It was at this time that a certain unknown guy whose name was Joe vowed not to allow their marriage take place. Joe meant that he loved Amy and if she doesn't agree to marry him, he was ready to kill her. If she wasn't going to belong to him, then she didn't worth or merit living as well.

One fateful day, Jason had been out. He had left Amy alone at home. Unknown to Jason, Joe sneaks in and kidnaps Amy. This is related to Jason sooner than he had thought.

Joe takes Amy to the forest in a bid to rape her before killing her. Unfortunately, before Jason got there, Joe had finished his evil work. He had raped Amy and also stabbed her. Joe was cleaning his hands of the blood when Jason arrives.

Jason is shocked by the sight he meets. He sees Amy stabbed and this make him want to collapse. Joe takes advantage of the situation and he escapes while Jason holds the dying Amy.

"Amy! Amy! Amy, stay with me. Please don't die yet. I can't do without you. if you leave me, I die. Don't kill me, Amy. Don't, please I beg." Jason begged as he shook the dying Amy.

"I also don't want to die as well." Amy managed to say. As she talked, she vomited more blood.

Jason was crying profusely. The dagger wasn't etched in Jason's heart but he felt like it was. Seeing Amy go through much pain was something he couldn't bear.

"I'm sorry, Amy. I will he sure to avenge your death. Joe won't live three days on this earth." I promised Amy who was still vomiting blood.

"I don't want to leave you, Jason." Amy says.

"I know..."

"But I can't stop the situation. It's getting harder for me to breath." Amy says.

"Don't. Please don't." Jason begs. He was still crying hard and seemingly harder as time passed by.

"I am sorry." Amy says as she shed tears as well.

"Don't be."

"I will surely make it up to you. Don't worry I will make it up." Amy says as she vomited more blood. Jason knew she was dying gradually and he couldn't stop that death.

"Do you remember when we first met?" Amy asked as she looked unto Jason. She was as expecting him to talk.

"Yes, I do." Jason replied. "Wasn't it at that banquet when you were talking with your friend."

"Yes. You really still do remember how we first met. I thought you would have forgotten." Amy says.

"Why will I forget? I will never forget that single moment in my life. That was the moment when I fell in love with you." Jason replied with his head bowed.

That moment between them had been tense. They were all looking at the finality which was right in their presence. Nothing could save the situation and they knew it. That was what made everything harder.

The forest which they were in was too far to the outer space. Jason couldn't take Amy to a doctor now. Even if he tried to, it would still end the same way. Amy was already vomiting blood and that had made everything rule out by itself.

It was all definite; Amy was going to die.

"When did you fall in love with me?" Amy asked as she looked into Jason's eyes. This was a moment of questions and answers.

"I fell in love with you when I first set my eyes on you." He paused and then continued. "I loved the way you were. You seemed so happy like the world was revolving around you. I fell in love with your happiness first and then with you at the same time."

"Really?" She asked.

"Yes."

They didn't get talk again now. They were drowning in their different thoughts. It was sure that they had wished to spend the moment of remembrance together.

"Is there anything you have kept secret from me? You can let me know." Amy said as she looked tenderly at his eyes.

"I have kept nothing from you. What about you?" He said as he looked at her dying in front of him.

Amy sighed.

"Well, I tasted the cake before I served it for you the night before yesterday even when you told me not to." Amy confessed.

"You did?" Jason says.

"Yes, I did."

Jason was crying again now. He seemed so hurt, lonely and depressed.

"It's so bad that you wish to leave me now. How do you want me to avenge by tasting the cake now when you are about to die." Jason said as he cried the more.

"I am sorry. I don't want to leave you as well." Amy says.

"I know."

"You can avenge tasting the cake anytime. It doesn't seem like I am going to eat cake ever again. You have all to eat now." Amy said.

As Jason heard this, he burst into another fresh round of tears. Even Amy couldn't keep her tears at bay. It was overwhelming.

"No, Amy. Please don't leave me to eat my cake alone. Please don't. Just don't leave me alone. I beg you please. " Jason begged.

Amy started coughing hard. The end seemed very near.

Jason went to her and held her hand. They both held hands now and looked into each other's eyes. They could only feel love and passion in the air.

"Jason..." Amy called.

"Yes."

"I will come back to you." Amy says.

"You will?" He asked.

"Yes, I will. I will come back to you and be with you forever. That time I will never leave you again." Amy said.

"I trust you will. " Jason says.

"Hold me please. Hug me..."

Jason held her in her arms and muttered 'I love you'. He waited for her reply but didn't hear one. He held her back and looked at her. Her eyes was closed and her breathing had stopped. It had happened.

Amy was dead.

That moment was the turning point of Jason's life. He wouldn't forget it; the moment Amy died.