Rae: Sky is orange..
Me: God yes.
Rae: How come it is so red today...
Me: I don't know. But I'm happy it is. But this happiness brings me sadness and this sadness brings back happiness and my heart aches in this funny way...
Rae: Aching,, You've been so happy that your heart aches.
Me: Have you?
Rae: I don't think so.. Not yet.
And he lied. After our well spent night, as usual, he confessed to me that he felt that way the night we spent trying to be in company with both our sets of friends. We drove everywhere. First we were with my friends, then his friends, then my friends again, then everywhere until we were so exhausted that we both just fell asleep on the couch. He felt it then. Then that reminiscence led to another whole series of reminiscence and we went down memory lane of all the days and nights that we spent when our hearts made us ache. And I thought we only had a few, but we kept listing until we were entirely reminded that almost all our nights are spent with hearts filled to the brim.
