A Liar and A Lover

A new ground that has been dug. A sobbing woman and an unknown stranger.
The eyes of the woman scanning the name written on the stone that just been put recently on the ground.

'Here lies William, Beloved Son, Husband and Father
 1970 - 2011'

No one else in the area, so the woman come forward from her hiding place to the ground and wipe the tombstone it from the flowers that just been scattered unto it. Tears drop silently from her eyes, but there's also another fire burning within it.

"I cannot forgive you... I really, really cannot forgive you. How could you die before me? And what about this phrase 'Beloved husband and father'? You told me you liked me... Was that a lie?"

She sobs uncontrollably for a while. The stranger looked upon the scene with heart aching for the woman that looks very fragile. The moment just stays like that and it feels like infinity for the stranger.

She lays down on the grave, looking as if laying down with her lover that just past away. She stroked the stone as if stroking her lovers face, and the heart of the stranger is breaking even more.

"Do you remember? I loved to stroke your face like this. I love the hair on your face when you woke up in the morning and seeing your eyes flutter when you wake up. And you always said you liked me much.    And you said that my eyes are like a dark hole that you could throw away your soul into..." She sigh heavily, and the sound of it feels like the weight of the world is wearing down the stranger's heart.

She closed the eyes for she cannot bear seeing the scene around her, not noticing the stranger at all. For a while she just lay there, breathing heavily, trying to control her sobbing until it become smaller and almost gone.

After it goes down, she sit beside the grave and look again with a new resolution. "So... was that all lie? A good joke for you?! Did you have all the fun you wanted?!?!" She screamed on top of her lung.

At this point, the stranger cannot bear it anymore and come behind her and hold her with his might, shocking the woman. She struggle hard, but her power is beaten by the stranger. Until she saw the stranger's face. "Danny..."

Upon hearing his name being spoken, he release his hold on her. And looked away from her face for his heart is breaking all the more.

"How long have you been there?"
Silence
"Did you... did you see all that?"
Silence
"Did you... know it?"
silence

Danny slowly try to see the woman in front of him, and finding a look full of accusation and anger in her eyes. He brace himself for what may come next.

"How could you?"
Silence
"After all these time we've known each other?! HOW COULD YOU!!!!???!!!" the woman hit him several times and stop because of the sobbing.

Danny embrace her tenderly. "Let's stop this, Hana. Just stop."

"have you known all along?"

"I did. After all, he's my senior. But I can't say anything to you because I can see you really love him. And he did too."

Hana looked up to see Danny's eyes, and that makes her off from his embrace. "Did he?"

Sighing, Danny answered. "Yes. Even if he lied to you, he did love you in his own unique way. And the wife? It just unwanted marriage in his part. Being young and wild."

Hana looked back to the grave. Her eyes softened. "But he's a liar for me. Even if a liar is dead, he's still a liar. And if I can't forgive, it means I can't forgive." She looked upon the sky that so clear, trying to look upon the gate of heaven or anything else. Adding with a soft tone, "And loving... is loving..."

They left the place long after that, leaving the memories, the heartbreak, the truth, and only carrying the love inside their heart. Danny's love for Hana, and Hana's love for the passed away lover.

What will be done later? Only time can tell, for the living one still have a long time to spend, and the passing one has eternity to spend doing whatever they did in the other world.