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Alexander opened his eyes as he thought about the letter that he had picked up from the ground that night, fifteen years back. It changed their lives forever. He had saved that piece of paper even today. He read it every night when he missed her, her neat slanting handwriting was etched into his heart by reading it again and again all these years. Alexander sighed and pulled a folded pice of paper from under his pillow. He kept it there,right under his head. He opened the old fragile paper which had many wrinkles and was torn in the middle because of the constant folding. He had fixed it, but still it showed him how far she was from him. It showed him the years that had passed by, yet she was not there with him today.The letter pinpointed the mistakes he had done . The biggest mistake was letting rose slip off his hands.
The letter ignited the fire within him to find her and claim her as his own.
He stared at the paper and started reading the letter again for the millionth time...

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THAT NIGHT, 15 YEARS BACK.

Alexander picked up and unfolded the white sheet of paper. It had a beautiful slanting handwriting on it. He instantly recognised the owner of that sheet. It was her, it was Rose. He scrunched his eyebrows and started reading the contents of the paper as he sat alone in his backyard while the stars twinkled brightly above him.

Hi Alex,

I don't know how to start this, I am very bad at writing letters and conveying what i fell,but I have no other option. Well, a few days back I asked my mother about how it feels when you fall in love with someone. And you know what?, it matches with the feelings running in my heart. And I have realised that I am in love Alex. Very deep in love. So deep that I am drowning in it,am not able to breathe, and no one is there to pull me up from those depths.
Do you want to know who it is, who that person is, who pushed me into those depths.?
Well, he is my childhood sweetheart, he is beautiful, he's charming, he's caring and he's everything I want Alex. Words aren't enough to describe him. We've been close since childhood,and I know now,that I've always been in love with him since the day we got to know each other. And do you know what I love the most in him?

Alexander took a deep breath and kept the paper on the bench. He was scared to read further. His breathing increased and he felt suffocated.

"Jesus Christ....Rose ,don't do this." He whispered to himself.

Somewhere deep down his heart he knew that the person who had pushed her into the deep depths of love was none other than him. He gathered courage and picked up the paper to read the rest of the message.

His eyes. Dear Lord,his eyes are so magnetic and beautiful. Those deep forest green eyes just pull me inside them. I always seem to loose my strength and heart when I look into them...I have grown to love those eyes so much, that tomorrow even if we aren't together, and are two different people from different worlds, I would identify him just by looking at his eyes. I love him so much Alex, that it hurts. I want to be in his life, I don't know what he feels about me, does he feel the same for me Alex?

Alexanders' throat constricted with pain and an unknown emotion that he couldn't identify. He pressed his eyes with his fingers and blinked rapidly hoping that all this would remain as a dream. But unfortunately for him,it wasn't. He continued reading...

I dont know that, but I surely know that I am in love with him. It's no crush, or love. It's so much more. So much more than love, and much more deeper than love. He stays near my house, he's my neighbour.He studies in my school too.
He's changed a little now that he's all grown up, he's not the same as before when we were kids. But I still love him. I love him for what he is.
Tomorrow, when he becomes old and his skin fills with wrinkles, when his back bends and he walks with a stick in his hand, when his eyes looses it's magnetism, when he looses all his teeth, when his soft silky hair looses its thicknes and starts greying, and even if I am not in his life, I will still love him. He is much more than love Alex. It hurts so much as I write this. Because I don't know what he's going to feel when he reads this.
I don't know how he's going to feel about all this. I know that he knows me the best. He's been my best friend since when my memory begins. He's always been there for me. But today, I feel so scared Alex, scared that he might just reject me. I don't know what tomorrow holds. But I know that this day, this moment, this letter is going to get engraved in his heart,and am happy for that. Today he will know that this girl loves him a lot, more than he could imagine.
It's getting too long. I don't know where to stop Alex. A letter and a few words are not enough to explain his importance in my life.
So I am just going to stop it.
Ummm.... I love him a lot, and he has a very hot name. His name is...
ALEXANDER HUNTER.

Roseanne.
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Alexander closed the piece of paper and tucked it underneath his pillow. He still remembered how he reacted that night to her confession. She had put her heart on a silver platter and served it to him, but he had just pushed it away after stabbing it with a knife. He couldn't breathe, it felt as if that open backyard did not have any oxygen left.
Even today, he was amazed by the amount of love she had given him. She had carried his love for 15 years in her heart, and when she had confessed he rejected her. Why? Because he was a coward. He did not trust love and he was scared of love because of his parents.

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and left it out through his mouth in one swift motion. He slowly opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling with pain and agony and whispered to himself,

" Come back to me Rose."