Marko & Maria (Part 3)

Why couldn’t this ring belong to me? Maria thought while she started to move her fingers back up Marko’s arm.

“Maria, I can’t do this.”

“Do what exactly?” Maria asked while looking longingly into Marko’s eyes.

“I can’t be with you Maria. I know how you feel about me, but I can’t Maria. I just can’t.”

Maria started to slowly back away from Marko. “If you know how I feel about you than why did you come over?”

“I don’t know.” Marko replied while looking down. “I guess. I guess I just needed to find out for myself.”

“Find out what Marko?”

“If the feelings where still there,” Marko said while taking a step backwards.

“Yes” Maria said sheepishly.

“Marko, I have always had feelings for you.”

“Then why didn’t you do anything about it.”

“I tired. I just.” Maria said while she started to blush. “I just couldn’t”

“Why”

“I don’t know. I didn’t want to ruin things between us.”

Mario started to take a couple of steps back while rubbing his forehead. “Maria, you had your chances to say something.”

“Really? When?”

“I don’t know Maria, maybe back in high school. Before I went to Europe, after I got back. The numerous weddings we did. The week before my wedding when we had lunch. You had your chances Maria.”

Maria put her head down, “I know I had my chances, but I just couldn’t do it. I. I. I.”

“Maria, why are you doing this now? You know I won’t leave Amelia.”

“I know that.”

“Then why? Why are you doing this? Why now?

“Marko.” Maria said while taking a deep breath in. “What you don’t understand is that I couldn’t do it until now. You always had this je ne sais quoi about you that I could not break through until now. You have always been in the forefront in everything that you do. Nevertheless, since being married you have come down from the mountaintop that I could never reach. You are at a place where I can reach you Marko. You had made it impossible for me to say what I have always wanted to say to you.”

Marko just stood there looking into Maria’s eyes. Locked on them, feeling shocked with what Maria was telling him.

Maria continued, “I know that the timing is not ideal, but I had no other choice. You gave me no other choice. I know that you love Amelia. I know that you are not going to leave her.” Maria takes a step towards Marko. “Marko, you are the only person that gets me. You are the only person that understands me. You get my joke. You make feel like alive when we are near each other.”

With a very somber tone in his voice, “Maria.”

Maria walked up to Marko; she could feel his warm breath against her face. She started to look at his lips and the same thought. If the eyes are the gateway to the soul, then lips are definitely the gateway to sensuality, while she kissed him.

TO BE CONTINUED…………………