Heavy

The woman never fully got over the unhappy breakup in her teenage years.

It was such a bad ending to what was a special relationship that it seemed to put a pattern in place. The parting laid heavy on her. For her, even casual friendships were hard to hang on to as the years went by. As a result, she had never married; never even come close to finding a partner that compared with the boy that got away. There had been something special between them all through their school years and by the time they were both working in town they were dating. That was the case until the terrible fight one evening as they left the cinema. The memory of the trauma of it had stayed with her, while the actual nature of the argument had been washed away by the decades that followed.

However, on reflection soon after and ever since, she knew that she had been the cause of it. She had been so silly. She had pushed him away, leaving her heartbroken for all the unfulfilled years that had slowly drifted by. Sometime after the incident, she heard that his family had moved away.

Almost six decades had passed, when it happened.

Yet, another jumble sale. It was one of her favourite activities. She had religiously attended every one that had been held in the town hall. It was a ritual that she went along early and set up as a seller, with a card table covered with old unwanted knickknacks, kitchen utensils and whatever oddments came to hand. It never made her enough money to cover the entry fee, but she simply enjoyed being part of the event.

Soon enough she had children looking through all her odds-and-ends. It was then that, with some difficulty, a boy managed to pick up the large, heavy paperweight. He turned it over. Something seemed to be stuck to the bottom. Peeling the piece of paper off, he held it up to her. Confused, she opened the half-folded note and stared at the handwriting. There was something vaguely familiar about it.

It read: I’m really sorry. It was all my fault. Please call if you forgive me!

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