Tara Na!: A Love Story

  “She’s my oxygen, without her I would suffocate and die” said the Lover to the Hater. As a response, Hater gives Lover a friendly smirk and said, “With oxygen, we can create fire, with fire we can burn them.” Suddenly Sufferer burst out a cry, “But, that’ll hurt her!”. He walks toward the Hater, “If you hurt her, I’ll be hurt too!”. Hater stands up and grab Sufferer by the collar, he smiles. “Not, if she likes it too!” he said.

“Halt that shit!” the Lover interrupts. “No one will hurt her, we will keep her from harm!”

“Hey!” Hater shouted. “There is no ‘we’, it’s only you, and you.” he pointed out everyone else.

“What if.. what if…” Sufferer hesitates. “What if… she mean all those things?”

“Please… Trust her.” the Lover said to Sufferer. “I mean… she told us that she loves us and I feel the same way too… I love her.”

“You guys, do know the meaning of the word pain?” the Hater asks.

“Who does not!?” the Sufferer answers in broken and groaning voice.

“Well then, we will show her the meaning of pain!” the Hater pounding his fist against his palm.

“Hey! Fuck off!” Lover pushes Hater against the wall. “Did you hear what I just said? No one will hurt her!”

“Yes, I heard you, but I did not listened to you. That is different.” his spine against the cold and damp wall, he still managed to give Lover a very evil smile. “But who knows? Maybe I’ll try to follow your noble cause.”

A familiar voice comes out from the right side of the room. It was the Thinker, another resident.

“So… anyone has a plan?” he asks.

“Not even a single shit…” another voice from the another side broke out. It was the Serious. “These fucks keep arguing forever, they don’t even mean a shit.”

The Lover let go of Hater, and walks toward his place and sat down. “We can’t not hurt her, we just sit here and wait for her… patiently.”

“Oh great… Patience is a fucking virtue!” Serious shouted. “Okay! We sit our asses here ’til that fucker comes here and we will all say our thanks to her!” he said sarcastically.

“What if she won’t come?” asks Sufferer.

“Then we will burn her house down, and rape whoever survives in the carnage!” Hater answers quickly.

“If we asks her, of course she will lie to us.” Thinker said in more like a whisper to Lover.

“How can you say she will lie to us?” Lover asks.

“Because that what she is!” Serious interrupts. “She feeds us with all that good crap, they when we are full of that crap… she will.. she will.”

“She will what?!” Hater asks excitedly.

Serious thinks for a second and said. “She will leave us dead.”

Sufferer gives another long and mournful burst of tears, but no one even bother to calm him down.

“What if… We leave her!” Hater called out. “We have no more problem!”

“How? You know, we know that we all love her!” Lover said.

“Well.. that not includes me.” Serious said then looks away.

“Me too.. Don’t count me in.” Hater said, then looks at his fingernails.

“Don’t lie to yourselves.” Thinker said in very guilty voice. “We all love her, without her, we are nothing in this world.”

“Well.. I admit it, I love her too but not as much as you fuckers do.” Serious said, still his eyes are on the stars above their heads.

“Nope… I hate her.” Hater said.

“Okay.. Whatever you say.” Thinker answers.

“I love her, but I don’t know if she loves me back. I love her, but she makes me feel this way. I love her, but she does things that hurt me. I love her, but she is pushing us away saying I love you but not really. How?? She’s pushing us away, but she is saying that she loves us. She said that she loves us, but she shows us that we are like nothing for her. She don’t even bother.” Sufferer sits quietly again after he got the attention of everyone else.

Serious started clapping, everyone looks at him. “That shit will happen to us all if we don’t do anything that will gives a fucking boost to her mind and gives us a look on her fucking thoughts!”

I stood up, and said. “We will see tomorrow. If this happens again, we will try our best to generate a good plan to make a step, either forward or backwards”

Everyone gives out a groan. They all stand up from there seat. Hundreds of thousand of thoughts, emotions and attitudes march their way out of the big hall. I was left in the far left corner seat on the top row. I frantically scratched my scalp.

Serious gives a peek on the door and shouted at me. “I am only doing this shit for forty days! After that I will not give a fuck!” then he disappears before I could answer.

“All this crap for just one girl.” I said to myself. I organized my stuff and started walking for the door. Before I lock the door, I heard a noise inside the hall. I quickly looked inside. And there she is, standing in the middle.

I quickly fixed my hair and entered the hall.

“Hi!” I greeted her.

“Hey! How are you?” she answers, then she walks away.

I was there, left alone. “How about that?” I told myself.