The Swing

It was late when the girl and the tall guy took the walk in the Vuotry park. It was no romantic place for couples with the -1 weather and the slight breeze. There weren’t much people in the park. Only a couple of people who were leaving.

“You seem a little weird today” The girl said while grabbing the tall guy’s hand and pressing it against her bosom. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah I am okay” The guy said while walking slightly faster than the girl.

“What’s the problem with you?” The girl asked while catching up with him. “We need to talk. You are so bipolar. We just came from that party and you were talking and laughing with your friends, ignoring me completely. Why are you being like this?”

The couple felt another cold breeze. The girl pushed her jacket zipper till her chin and grabbed the guy’s hand. He  resisted.  

“Okay I know you are ignoring me. I can feel that. At least tell me what’s wrong? Did I do anything?”

The guy chuckled.

“What was that?”

“What was what?”

“The chuckle. That was a sarcastic chuckle. I know how it sounds.”

There was a swing in the park lit up with the faint yellow light enough to see around the place. It was vacant and the breeze was swinging it with a small push.

“Let’s go sit there and talk. You need to open up for me.” The girl said while dragging the guy to the swing. He showed no resistance. They sat on it and the girl gave a little push with her feet thus making it swing a bit.

“I know about Timothy.” The guy said with a straight face while looking at the pine tree in front of him.

“What?”

“Timothy…Tim. I know about him”

“Okay…” The girl smiled. “What do you know about him? You know he is my colleague. Good guy. I’ve told you about him”

“Yeah. But I know you are cheating on me with him.”

“Whoa! What?? How dare you accuse me like that!!” The girl asked with her eyes wide open.

“Remember last night you went to take a shower and left the phone unlocked? I saw there were 7 messages and I checked. It was from Tim”

“Okay… But that doesn’t prove anything. He is just a good friend of mine.”

“Does a good friend ever say… Hey babe are you busy? Can we talk tonight etc?” The guy looked at the girl with disgust in his eyes.

“Oh my god...” The girl looked at her feet for a few seconds and looked at the guy again. “Look Tim… He is not what you think…”

“Oh yeah it is not what I think. I read all the messages you’ve been sending him. I’ve seen the explicit disgusting things. I don’t even wanna bring it up again. This whole thing… this whole relationship disgusts me”

The girl gasped and looked at him again.

“Do you agree that you did wrong?” The guy asked. “Just please admit it”

The wind whistled while blowing through the park. A few snowflakes floated over the air and disappeared when the blowing wind changed its direction.

 “It won’t happen again” The words uttered from her mouth whilst her eyes were fixed upon her Nikes which had a few drops of water on the top.

She heard the sound of a long sigh from him. He had his eyes fixed on the chestnut tree which was now fully nude without its ravishing green leaves of the spring.

“I promise you it won’t happen again. I made a mistake. I did wrong. But I really love you. You need to believe me.”

“I can’t even trust you anymore. How could you do this to me. This is disgusting”

She took his hand and pressed it against her bosom.

“I promise you. It won’t ever happen again. I love you…”

He looked at her eyes and grabbed her hand.

“I love you too. And I trust you on this”

She laid her head on his shoulder while slightly pushing the swing with her legs. It kept swinging for the next 15 minutes.

                                                Next morning it was getting much colder than then previous day. He was still on the bed but she was up and gone to make the tea. He turned the Tv on, the morning news was the first refreshing alarm he ever had. The weather forecast announced that the winter is coming sooner than expected. Everyone was getting ready for the winter and some areas even experienced a few snowfalls already.

He yawned and laid back to the bed while fixing his pillow. The door opened and she came into the room with the tea. Her hair undone, face blossomed with the smile he fell for on the first day and the unique scent of her always makes him fall in love with her each day again and again. She gave him the tea and left a kiss on his forehead.
“I woke up earlier today. I don’t know why. She said while sitting on the bed and browsing through the drawers to find her makeup box. He caressed her soft skin

“I have to go to the bank today.” He said while getting up and sipping on the tea. “The tea is delicious as always babe”

“Oh thank you.” She said while brushing the hair. “I also made some sandwiches, eat some before you go out”

“Wow you really woke up early right?”

“Yeah. I mean you crashed as soon as we got home last night. I went to sleep at about 2 am.”
“Oh wow. Why?”

“I don’t know. I wasn’t sleepy. Just kept watching Youtube” She chuckled.

                                                            He took a shower and started eating the sandwiches on the table. He was munching the second sandwich when he realized it was Sunday and banks closes earlier than usual. He stood up so fast making the chair fall down behind him.

“Hey what’s the commotion? Are you okay?” She came into the room.

“Yeah I am okay. I just have to go quickly, banks closes earlier today. Can you get my jacket?” He asked while putting on his sweater and running to the room to get his phone but it wasn’t necessary because he saw the phone on the study desk. He grabbed the phone and ran to the front door.

“Hey Hey don’t forget your jacket” She yelled as she threw the jacket at him. “And careful. The roads are slippery.

He ran out to the street. It was colder than usual. The bank was just across the park where they walked last night. He crossed the road and walked through the path. There were so many mothers with their baby carts who were enjoying walks in the morning. Suddenly he felt a vibration in his pockets. He knew it was his phone. He took out the phone to realize he was wrong. It was a phone with a purple back cover. The rush had made him so careless that he had brought her phone. He chuckled but that chuckle didn’t last much long when he saw the screen. There was a message and the contact and appeared to be Tim.

He opened the message with shivering hands. There was nothing to think anymore. He saw many chats among the two which had taken place after he went to sleep last night. She had told Tim how annoying he was and how he confronted her last night in the park. Everything had been spoken between the two and each chat bubble had the word darling or babe. His whole world was destructed when he saw the last message.

‘Good night babe. Love you’

These were texts from the girl he loved. To another man. He kept staring at the screen when a man spoke to him.
“Excuse me sir. Could you move from the path.?”
He looked at the voice. It was a construction worker and there were more of them and a truck.
“Yeah sorry what’s going on?” He asked the construction worker.

“We are taking down that swing sir. The winter is coming.” The man said while pointing at the swing he and she sat last night.

“Why is that?” He asked the man.

“Well sir… during the winter we take it away and in summer we put it back. It’s not a permanent piece in the park.”

They started dissembling it to pieces.