SHORT STORIES

Garden

This is a complete work of fiction. Do not go all logical on me. Just enjoy the innocence in the story. ❤

Once upon a time, there lived an old lady. She had the most beautiful backyard with a large number of flowers.

On the right side of the garden were the beautiful roses and to the left were the memorising lilies.

That old lady loved her garden and would take care of the flowers as her children.

One thing she did not know about her garden was that in her garden, a beautiful love story was blossoming. 

A love story of a red rose and his lily.

Red rose stood single in his small plant on the ground and when he looks up front. He sees a lily alone in her plant. 

He would admire her for hours. And every time she would glance at him. He would shy away.

There were many lilies in the garden but he only wanted to see her. She was no different from any other lily. But for him, she was one of kind.

He wondered how it would fell to be close to her.  So he decided to do the unthinkable. He decided to move close to her. He was determined to get close to her, so he started moving his roots towards her direction.

Seeing his determination, the larger plant moved their roots a little for him to give him way in the ground. Some ever pushed him too.

The whole garden was amazed at red rose's determination. The lilies on the other side started helping the lily to move towards him too. 

It took a while but both started moving closer and closer. 

But they had to stop.

In between the two sides of the garden passed a concrete path.

There was no more ground to move close to each other. 

The red rose looked everywhere but there could be no way he could reach his lily. 

He looks at his lily and she looks at him. 

He really wanted to be close to her.

She smiles at him and he understands that this is how it is meant to be.

They were happy to see each other. Though the distance, they still had eachother.

Days went by and as everything has to face the cruelty of time. So did these innocent flowers.

The red rose started losing his petals one by one. And every time he lost a petal. Lily would look at him with sorrow. But the red rose never stopped smiling. He had everything he wanted. He could see his lily. And wished he went first so that he wouldn't see his lily go. 

Lily was losing her colour too. Her once milky white petals where slowly turning brown. She would feel embarrassed from her appearance but never felt ugly when red rose saw her. For him, she was the most most beautiful and unique lily in the whole garden.

It soon came the time for the flowers to say goodbye to eachother. And both smiled at eachother one last time. 

Red rose remembered the day he first saw lily. For him, she was the only one. For her, he was the only one. 

Red rose looks at his lily one last time and losses his last petal. Gone was single determined red rose who moved his root to get close to a lily.

No words were spoken....

No feelings were shared...

He was no special in a garden full of roses... But for her, he was everything.

She was no special in hundreds of lilies in the garden... But for him, she was his lily.

Rains came, the wind blew. New life had started to plough the earth.

In a flowerpot in the old lady's house. A new life had started to grow. With new leaves started a new bud of a new red rose.

The red rose opened his eyes to the world and saw himself as a new rose. The old lady had re-potted him. He smiles knowing he can live again.

He looks around and freezes, if only a flower could do that.

Stood close to him was his lily. The old lady had re-potted her too. 

This time both were close and shared a same mud pot. 

Lily looks at red rose and smiles. Though immensely happy. Red rose looks away feeling shy.