Forgetting the Winter Birthday Wish

Forgetting the Winter Birthday Wish

Once upon a winter’s night, a young woman’s birthday wish came true. It was bitterly cold and snow fell softly but her love was there. He sat next to her, wrapped his arm around her lovingly, and the warmness of his kiss lingered on her lips. She had been chatting with him on the internet all that summer and fall and on that winter night, she finally met him face to face. Even online, she felt an indescribable connection with him and she thought that she was in love with him. He was dark and mysterious but yet he seemed charming. When he chatted with her, he acted like she was his princess that he would forever adore. With the stars in her eyes, she thought that winter night was the beginning of their happily ever after but little did she know that as soon as her birthday candles were blown out, reality already begun to overshadow her picture perfect fairy tale.

Months passed and his mask of flawlessness disappeared. He was really a quite disturbed man with an icy soul. Demons always haunting him, a feverish anger constantly consumed him and he took it out on the young lovesick woman with the harshest words imaginable. She would cry and pray at night, wondering why and her heart breaking into a zillion pieces but he would always feed her lies, patching up her wounds with false hope and she would always forgive him. It was a never-ending cycle until one night, releasing the rage that was bottled up inside of her, she stood up to him and she made herself see the truth.

He was a dangerous monster not a charming prince. They never were a romantic fairy tale, they were a heartrending tragedy just waiting to happen. Even though a part of her still loved him, she had to walk away, abandon him, blockade her heart. His voice still echoed in her mind but she had grown stronger and she never looked back. She realized that it was all in her imagination, that she had to forget about her birthday wish that came true on that winter night.





©Lena Holdman, all rights reserved 2011

This is a fictional story but I did break up with my boyfriend. I'm not bashing him. We just had different lifestyles. Writing this was just my way of dealing with it.