It wasn't long before everyone were waiting under the cherry blossoms tree to witness the moment of each flower falling graciously on the ground. Hitting the rough street and yet escaping from the friction of the cruel world it could give. It was, after all, a street of solace for every lover around the world. And it was the sight that brought every pair of lovers together during this very week. The blooming and falling of cherry blossoms.

But there is another pair of lovers, who could never embrace the feeling of being together. It had been eons since they held each other close, when once they were inseparable. The ones we think would always meet at the horizon and continue their love story.

The one true love story in the world, which didn't get the right ending every love story deserves. Just because of a few greater powers who did not like this love. The love blooming to see a new future together and destroy the greatest powers that ruled over Earth then. The protagonists of this old, and yet always new love story, the Sky and the Earth.

Isn't it almost comical how they seem to always be at an arm-length from one another and be weaving a truly good story together, but are never together in reality. It was, definitely, not always like this. The start of the story being back to the time when they were just normal people in a different universe all together.

A beautiful time when the two would walk down lanes and lanes of precious flowers on either sides, sharing shy glances and bold fingers held together. It all started when they weren't too young, nor too old to know the cruelness of the world. Earth, just finding its solace in the heat of their universe under a nice tree, sitting and seeing away every small occurrence around her.

Her English gown flowing gently with the wind as her golden locks rest against her back, being neatly pleated. Her blue eyes wandering around as her slender fingers work on the flowers, weaving them into branches and making pretty crowns out of them. Her white as snow features, drastically contrasting her surroundings, where the thunderclouds were storming in.

She didn't lack anything. she was as sharp and observant as her features suggested too. But there was one thing that was lacking in her life, having one dear friend for herself. One who would listen to her sorrows and glees. One who would share their words of wisdom and play the tunes of madness with her.

Maybe it was her observant features that helped her blue eyes rest on those scarlet storm grey ones. those pair of eyes belonging to the most strange boy she had ever seen. Jet black hair with pale and scrawny features. The features screaming at others to look away even without having a complete first glance. But the depth of his grey eyes forced the beautiful girl to walk up to him and introduce herself. "Hi. I am Dhara." Her maiden name, then being Dhara.

And to say that the boy was star-struck by Dhara's appearance would be an understatement. It took him a while to get out of his frenzy and greet the girl, with all the love and sincerity he could muster. "I'm sky and I'm in love with you."

As a reply, all he got was a beautiful laughter where her eyes crinkled up in delight and her shoulders felt at ease. The other would surely make some delightful company, is all that Dhara had thought. Little did she know that the almighty had heard her prayers for some love in life and he had given just that to her in the form of the socially awkward boy, Sky.

The love Sky had for Dhara was as materialistically him like anything could get. It reached infinity and beyond. There was limit when it came to showering her with every gesture of love he could get. Though, initially against the idea, Dhara too fell for the charming man that Sky was, beneath all the grim appearance of his.

Their love being known all through the universe as they never left each other's side. and as the years passed by, their love only grew stronger and stronger. So much that people even started worshipping them and created deities of them around the universe for all those loveless souls to get someone for themselves.

And that is when the Almighty knew that people did not just need materialistic things in order to survive. But they also needed someone who they could enjoy every little thing in the universe with. His realization being delayed, since everyone had turned to the beautifully blooming couple to get someone for themselves. they were offered with the most precious things in the world, that was before only for the Almighty himself.

Having had enough of sacrificing all his devotees to the couple, he decided it was high time they came to end that.

"I think their love has bloomed beyond our capacity now." He suggested as he saw everyone observing the couple being celebrated and prayed to. It had come to their notice as well, but the gods were a little hesitant about what they could tell to the Almighty himself.

"Yes my lord. It had come to our notice as well, and we know exactly what we can do to get rid of their love and destroy their story all together." Said the determined God of War. After all, everything was fair in love and war, even back then.

"Yes. We can separate them and send them to a different universe where they would never meet even if they wanted to." Said, the lady of Love. But that was not enough for the Almighty.

"There must be surely something more cruel than that. they deserve the punishment for thinking of themselves as Gods and taking every devotee with themselves instead." He said, his voice being grim since they were nothing without their devotees. It was their devotees love and prayers that they always worked for.

"There is something that is in my mind. If you would let me." The ruler of hell was also present there this time. usually being shunned out at such events, it was truly a sight of wonder to know that even the Hell lord himself was provoked by the disturbingly interesting love story.

And then he spilled everything that was on his mind as the Gods and Almighty worked their minds on thinking how to make it all happen. After all, the Hell lord is said to be one of the cruelest person in the world and if his idea does not satisfy for a good punishment, then there is nothing more to look into.

So at night, the Almighty along with his council of Gods and Lords descended to the universe where Dhara and Sky were. They were sleeping peacefully in each other's arms as they knew their love would keep prevailing over every effort of destruction. But now, the ultimatum was finally there and they were left unaware of it.

"Let's start the chanting." And then they began, throwing words and chants around and creating a bigger and bigger dark aura around them that swallowed the lovers, along with the memories they created together through that universe. In just a blink of an eye, their love story vanished like it never even existed.

The lovers, still in their slumber were not aware of anything that happened around them.

And as the morning woke them up, they see that they aren't together like every other morning. It was Sky who woke up first. Looking at his vast form and his lovely Dhara being soo close yet so far from him. The pain he had was unimaginable. A few drops of tears from his eyes was all that took for Dhara to open hers as well. the heavy tears falling on perfectly spherical shape as her soul had been now bound to just a mould of rocks and stones.

Their endless crying and twisting to be in each other's arms brought every satisfaction that the Council of power looked for. The destruction being entirely to their level of need and everyone in the previous universe coming back to them for everything.

The two cried and cried as they reached for one another, not knowing why they had to go through this. that is when the Hell lord had enough and decided to speak up.

"This is the wrath of gods and there is nothing you can do about it. Now the two of you will always appear as if together and yet be so far apart. You will witness every love story blooming into a complete one and always crave for yours to be the same. But that day will never come. This is what you get for reaping a love that we never sowed. For going against every wish we had with the two of you and for becoming more powerful than us."

"You can't do this to us. Please let us go. We'll never let the people think of us the same way and we would never even go back there." Dhara, now named as Earth pleaded but there was nothing that went into the other's deaf ears. All through her cries and pleas, Sky remained silent. His anger bursting himself as dark clouds starting forming in front and rained heavy showers towards the Earth. He didn't want anyone else to witness his love breaking down like that.

And just as the hell lord mentioned, their love was spoken about having a happy ending by everyone who witnessed their apparent meeting at the horizon. Not knowing the showers of rain they experienced were not out of love, but rather of sorrow of being apart. The sun shining brightly was a way to show the anger and not for them to have a daily life of love and joy.

But the world went on, assuming about their love story until they couldn't anymore. The Sky finally had enough of everyone's love story taunting theirs and with one last struggle, he broke loose. He knew he was going to destroy the Earth and him, but he couldn't see her suffering any longer. He couldn't see the longing in her eyes and not do anything any longer. He couldn't let their love story be misconceptioned by everyone any longer.

So during one such lovely Cherry Blossoms week, the sky thundered and rained heavy showers. And slowly the life on Earth came to an end as he fell right on her. A small smile and a wink to her with the words, "I'm crashing on you, my love." Before their eyes closed and they experienced absolute bliss before being darkened forever. 

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yours truly,
ice