The Last Letter

It was 11.00 Am in the morning and the day for Caroline was going as usual at work, on the phone as usual managing the inbound and outbound tourists. Her two hand phones would just not stop ringing, making her confused to decide out the two which call was more important.


Soon it was lunch time and today she decided to treat herself with good Grilled Sea Food and wanted to spend some time with herself, she soon called for her car, a Black shining Mercedes Benz. Chauffeur in White Uniform with a P Cap quickly got off the driver's seat and opened the Left Rear Door for Caroline.

Driver was about to shut the Back Door when a voice from the back stopped him to shut the door by Caroline's personal assistant. She was running with an envelope in her hand and handed it over to the driver asking h hand over the same to Caroline as Urgent and Personal was mentioned on the Envelope.

The handwriting on the Envelope seemed very familiar to Caroline, her facial expressions suddenly changed, the old age lines suddenly became prominent on her face, the think lines on her forehead looked more deep. Keeping the letter in her hand she commanded the Driver to turn the car towards the National Highway leading to the International Airport and asked not to stop or turn the car till she commanded.

Now slowly she started to open the Envelope, she had lot of questions in her mind before even starting to read the content of the letter, it seems she had a hint about the who the author of the letter was.. with some reluctance she started to read the letter, and it said :

Dear C,

It has been 55 years since we have met and communicated, I did not have your contact details till I read about your company in one of the leading Business Journals of the United Kingdom.

I would like to congratulate you on your success in your business, I always knew you would do well and make a mark for yourself.
Since we have not communicated in years I think this will be the first and the last letter from me since we last met, as by the time you would receive this letter it would have been too late for you to reply back and there would be no contact address for me as I will be gone forever.

Years spent with you were one of the most memorable ones and are still fresh in my mind and heart. The look in your eyes, the million dollar expression when you would see me anywhere was the one to die for.

You looking at me from far away, and whenever my eye would catch your looks, you would look some where else and believe me i always pretended not have noticed it.

I know you wanted to spend most of your time with me but could not due to obvious reasons and I think there is nothing to regret for.

Alot has happened since then and there is very little time to tell, life has been good to me and now I am breathing my last moments and before my last day I want to tell you that I miss you and apologise you for not been able to give you a chance to pick me up from the airport as we had talked about.

Hope you own a Black Merc now and yes I am still a Bachelor

Love & Remember me Always. Good Bye.

YY.

Caroline's eyes were moist, her face was red, in her cracked voiced she asked the driver to turn the car away from the Airport and take her to the restaurant where she had met YY.