Can a heart hold so much love.

Can it love more than that one person..
What if that one person is actually a lot of people.
What if you fall a little in love with everyone and they fall a little in love with you too.

Dimitri looked aloof. Who am I kidding, he always looks like that. Preoccupied. Consumed almost.
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The call lasted 11 seconds. I called him asking to bring a book to class ,a curt yes and he hung up drowning my 'love you'. I could've texted him instead.

Is it just me or does everyone needs to feel wanted. 

Crestfallen

I cannot hold sadness, the smallest of things have me tearing up.
But my mother, she's strong. I've seen her defend the people she love with great firocity . I've always wondered why I hadn't inherited it.
But she hates pets. All kinds of them. Dogs , cats you name them. She's the reason I don't know how to pet a puppy, maybe part of the reason why i can't selflessly help an injured animal.

But animals had a way of finding my mom. They'd always go upto her, I've never seen her feed one. That's when Tinku came, the big kitten who came into our house without an invitation. Amma would tell him not to get inside and he'd come in anyway. He'd go sit next to my mother or just rub against her. She never pated him. He stole all our hearts, mine my sister's my dad's. The best cat in the world. Never steals, never does anything he is not supposed to.
Then Tinku developed a tumor . We took him to a hospital. He died after a week or so.

And my mother cried . She said this was the reason she hated pets, they had such.. Small lives.

And it rained flowers.

It was so cold. I don't know why we decided to walk . Dimitri's voice didn't sound the same . Evelyn shouldn't have told him about her favourite guitar piece or how it became her favourite.

I wanted to go back, frustrated at myself for jumping into things I've no clue of,  breaking promises before I even make them. But Dimitri held me back. At this point, I'd like to tell you about the human side of Dimitri , the not so careless, the not so stone hard , the walk in the park Dimitri who every girl dreams of having.

Tears welled up in her eyes. It surprised her. She thinks she's stronger than this..

And they talked for an hour or so. The value of sitting there doing nothing. Being able to share everything one feels. It's almost priceless. So many people dream of having it.

They talked till they were happy .We were opposites in every different way, but that was okay.  Happiness was the bench we were sitting on, the leaves that fell on us when the wind blew.
The little things so many books talk about. That so many of us still miss.