My blank love - My blank love Part-28

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"Layers of Truth"

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Ehsan pulled his chair back slightly and looked at Zoboriya with a deep gaze.

There were no questions in his eyes, only a strange softness—

as if he knew that whatever he was about to hear,

he would have to guard it carefully.

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Zoboriya pressed her lips together, took a breath, and slowly spoke—

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> “Ehsan… because of someone, and for the sake of his love,

I left India.

For the past year, I’ve been here in Canada.

I don’t want that person… to come in front of me again.”

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Her voice was firm, but in her eyes…

the moisture of an old wound began to glisten once more.

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"Rare in This World"

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Ehsan noticed her fingers trembling slightly.

Her lips quivered as she said—

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> “Ehsan…

People who love you so much that they search for you in every corner of the world…

are not found twice.”

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That sentence hung in the air—

as if a hidden truth inside her had been touched for the first time.

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"Unfinished Words"

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Ehsan parted his lips to speak but stopped himself.

For a moment, his eyes simply read every expression on her face.

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> “Zoboriya…

You say I’m unaware of the truth of your life…

and that’s true.”

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He gave a faint smile—

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> “But you too… are unaware of the beautiful moments in mine.”

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"Sitting Across"

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Ehsan extended his hand, gesturing toward the chair in front of him—

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> “Sit… right here, across from me.”

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Zoboriya looked at him for a moment,

as if trying to understand in which part of his life he was about to place her.

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Then, she slowly pulled the chair and sat down.

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"Ehsan’s Story"

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As soon as Zoboriya sat, Ehsan turned his gaze toward the window—

at the falling snow outside, weaving a white silence.

Then he began to speak softly—

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> “You think I only find stories in pictures…

but the truth is, I’ve lived them.”

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There was tenderness in his voice,

but deep inside it lay a faint exhaustion—

as if he had returned from somewhere far away.

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"A Journey That Never Returned"

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> “For the past three years… I’ve only traveled.

Cities, countries, forests, mountains…

But in truth, I was only searching for one face.”

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Zoboriya’s eyelids lowered slightly—

as if her heart had unknowingly recognized that pain.

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"A Girl… and a Farewell"

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Ehsan twisted the strap of his camera around his fingers and said—

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> “That girl was the reason for my first photograph.

She taught me that

every picture captures a piece of time…

that even time cannot erase.”

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He took a deep breath.

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> “Then one day… she simply said—

‘I’m leaving.’

And she left.

Without giving a reason.

Without saying whether she would return or not.”

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"Search and Solitude"

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> “I tried to find her.

In her city, among her friends,

even in those places we had once visited together.”

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Ehsan’s eyes were still fixed on the falling snow—

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> “But it was as if she had vanished from the world.

And I… just kept walking.

Hiding behind the camera.”

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"Zoboriya… The First Meeting"

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Ehsan smiled faintly as he looked at her—

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> “Then, one day… in the corner of this bakery,

I saw you.”

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Zoboriya met his gaze,

but her heartbeat grew strangely restless.

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> “Your eyes had the same exhaustion…

that mine did.

As if both of us, in searching for someone else,

had lost ourselves.”

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"A Bridge"

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> “Maybe… that’s why, Zuboo,

I felt… your story and mine

are like the two ends of an old bridge.

And I want… that one day we meet in the middle.”

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Ehsan took a sip from his cup and simply said—

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> “I came to hear your truth,

so that your burden could be halved.”

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Zoboriya looked at Ehsan with a mix of surprise and pain.

From his face, it was impossible to tell—

that his heart too carried the same wound as hers,

a wound that could never heal.

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"Zoboriya’s Truth"

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Zoboriya gripped the cup tightly between her hands.

The steam rose slowly,

but the cold inside her seemed to grow deeper.

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She took a deep breath,

but her voice broke before it could escape.

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> “Ehsan…

The reason I left India and came here…

was not something small.”

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Ehsan looked at her in silence—

without interrupting, without asking—just waiting.

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"That Man"

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> “There was a man…

who loved me more than anyone in this world.”

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Her eyes wandered far away—

as if the snowy scene beyond the window

had taken her back to the streets of her past.

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> “His love… was such that

no matter where I was in the world,

he would find me.

And I…

chose to run away from that love.”

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Ehsan’s fingers rested lightly on the cup’s rim.

He didn’t speak,

but in his eyes floated a single question—

Why?

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"A Pain That Wasn’t Easy"

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> “Because… along with that love,

there was also a fear.

He loved me, yes…

but he hid the biggest truth from me.

The pain in my life—

it was given to me by Abuzarr.

A pain I can’t escape.”

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Zoboriya’s voice trembled.

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> “For the past year here in Canada…

I’ve been keeping myself away from that love.

But now, Ehsan, through you…

that name has returned to me again.”

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"Moisture and Silence"

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Ehsan saw the faint glisten of moisture in her eyes.

Her fingers were still trembling.

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> “People who love you enough

to search for you in every corner of the world…

are not found twice.”

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Her words lingered in the air—

like an invisible bridge forming between them.

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"An Exchange of Truth"

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Ehsan spoke softly—

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> “Zuboo…

I may not know every truth of your life.

And in the same way, you don’t know

the beautiful stories in mine

that have brought me here.”

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Leaning forward slightly,

he looked into her eyes—

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> “So… why don’t we, today,

each give the other half of our truths?”

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The two looked at each other in silence.

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