Short Story 1

"CHANGE ME! CHANGE ME INTO SOMEONE YOU LOVE! Just love me please..."

I was taken aback by your outburst. I contemplated for a moment and walked towards you slowly. 

I placed my hand on your face gently caressing it. 

My hands hovered over the brows to the eyes then to the lips.

When I was done, you looked over to the mirror. 

You were shocked to see what I had done and shook your head in disbelief. 

"The person I love. He isn't filled with sadness and rage all the time. He doesn't have knitted brows or a sorrowful gaze that feels like it is going to pierce through someone's soul or a mouth that is incapable of smiling. You are the person I truly love and I understand that the world's wrongdoings turned you like this. You want to exact revenge on the harsh world...but I can't live with someone like that. I can't live with myself seeing you spiralling out of control and down into the darkness. I am unable to change you and I respect that you don't want me to." I explained. 

"Did you ever love me then?" you asked coldly.

"Maybe I did. But what do I know about love?

Don't worry. The changes are temporary. You will be back to yourself in a few hours. You know I can change someone's external features but I can't manipulate their emotions. So, how about you ask yourself instead? Do you love me?" 

Without waiting for your answer, I turned around and left the room. 

You threw the mirror onto the ground. 

Maybe you knew that in your heart the love was mutual but your actions slowly pushed me away from you

and what was there was now gone

leaving us to feel sorry and mourn over its death.