"I don't want you to be this way. I promise I will marry you; in fact I have an idea. As we will be far away from each other why don’t we just get married in the court? I have a friend who can be our witness." She had been shocked and frightened at his proposal. Her family was not very supportive or liberal. If they ever found out that she was dating someone, let alone about to marry someone secretly, they would disown her. After a lot of persuasion and promises she finally agreed to do the craziest thing in her life. After all they were meant to be together, so why not be a couple legally? She told her family that she was going to spend a night at her friends house and had explained to her friend that she had to go somewhere with her boyfriend so she was to lie if her parents were to inquire. After gathering her bravery and a bunch of lies she was on her way to get married to the man of her dreams. The marriage was short and nothing that she had ever dreamt of. After signing the required papers, they were on their way to spend their wedding night at Nagarkot. He has soothed her nerves and had assured her that there was nothing wrong in what they were about to do. There were married now and there was nothing in the earth that could separate them. She had believed him. No one ever found out about their marriage or about the night they had spent secretly. She had put her life and body in his hands and there was not a single minute that she hesitated. She had spent two years without him and had finally persuaded her parents to send her to USA for education. Though he was in New York, she had to go to Washington, which was in the west coast. The scholarship amount was too great and the only thing that her parents could afford. He had been excited about her arrival but did not have the time or money to go meet her. He promised that they would be together on summer. Summer arrived and they finally reunited after two years. They would stay in bed till noon and go to restaurants everyday for meals. The three weeks they spent together was filled with luxury and a promise of the future. She could never have been happier! He kept ignoring her plea to move in with him. He told her that universities in NY were too expensive. NY was expensive and they would never have time for each other in their busy lives anyways. The more she tried to persuade him, the more he got annoyed. She finally decided to apply in a University and give him a surprise. It was 20th of December when she moved to NY. She had a cousin there who had helped her move to New York. She was temporarily staying there until she could move in with him and announce to the world about their secret wedding. The smell of vanilla and cinnamon drifted everywhere as she went to meet him at his apartment. She was so excited that her palms were sweating in the cold weather. She could feel her heart in her throat as she rang the bell. "Hi, Can I help you with something?" A blond petite girl with pretty blue eyes answered the door. "Uh, I think I got the wrong address," that was weird, how could she have mistaken the apartment. "Oh no. Maybe you are a friend of Akhil's, you look like a nepali.. He is in the office right now but he should be back in an hour. A lot of people don't know about us so u must be confused. I am Amy, Akhil's wife. We just got married last year." She was numb as she stepped in the apartment. She had to be mistaken. This has to be some other Akhil that this girl was talking about. His pictures filled the apartment. He was smiling into the blond girl's eye and kissing her. She felt a stabbing pain as if a knife had pierced her heart. She could not stop the flow of tears as she heard his voice behind her. Akhil’s smile disappeared as he looked at her. "How could you do this to me? How could you marry someone else when you were still married with me? How could you sleep with me when you were married with another girl here? How could you take away my virginity and spend the rest of your night in someone else's bed?" She did not wait for the reply as she went storming out the apartment. She never called him again or answer his phone calls. Did Amy and Akhil’s relationship survive? She had no clue. She stopped going to college and started working in cheap pubs where she met Daniel. He was a widower in the verge of destroying himself. He was rich and was interested in her. They got married after 2 years. He doted on her and she could barely stand him. She was dead inside. They were out shopping today and he was about to buy her a gift for their seventh wedding anniversary. She had money, an American citizenship and a husband who cherished her and fulfilled her every wish. The only thing she did not have was the one thing she had always wanted. The only thing that ever brought a flicker of emotion to those brown eyes was his memories. Those memories seemed to be a part of her existence and it came to her mind as easily as breathing in oxygen every second.