It’s been ninety-nine days since I last heard your voice and I do not know what it felt like to hear my name slipping off your mouth. They say ‘time heals’ but they are lying. Time heals absolutely nothing. The pain of yesterday aches every day and you became an emotional arthritis patient. Your joints are stiff with memories that make you crippled upto such an extent that you can barely walk or feel. I am listening to the call recordings over and over again for the last two and a half hours and I have memorized all of it by heart. Now, after your voice, I pause the recording to tell it myself then skip my part and play to hear your reply. We all are indeed stupid fools in love. Only if I knew the last time we talked would be the last time I would hear your voice, then I would not have kept the call ever since. John Green once wrote “You cannot love someone as much as you miss them”, and suddenly, I felt tears cornering the edges of my eyes and then trickling down as
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