Chapter 31: Falling Apart (1)
It had been four years since Liza started dating Steve and one week since they decided to call it off. It
had been a mutual decision. With Steve continuously wanting to and having to travel around the globe
and Liza''s desire to stay rooted in the ce she called home, it had gotten too difficult for them to
maintain their rtionship. It wasn''t that they didn''t love each other anymore but they had drifted apart
along the way and both of them realized that it was better to part ways as friends rather than to crash
and burnter. Liza still remembered the day they had decided to break up. Liza had just gotten home
from the office to find a brooding Steve sitting on the couch. She kept her purse on the table and
pecked Steve on his lips. It had be a sort of homing ritual for her whenever Steve was in
California. She loved the feeling of stability, of knowing that she woulde home to find him sitting on
the couch or in his study. She loved the domesticated life that they had developed during their three
years of dating. But for the past few months there had been turbulence in their happy little bubble, not
that they didn''t argue before, they did but they were never as frequent and as serious as those they
had been having recently.
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Steve mumbled in acknowledgment and continued to look at the piece of paper. Liza''s heart dropped,
this was another turbulence their rtionship had been facing. They barely had time for each other
now. Steve had recentlyunched his new series which ad be an international bestseller and he
had been busy in promotion, events all over the globe. He had been so busy with work that there were
times he hardly stayed for three days in a month, and when he was at the house, even then he was
busy with either writing or in talks with some publisher. It wasn''t that only Steve had changed but Liza
had changed too. She no longer missed him as much as she used to, her heart didn''t flutter at the sight
of him. Her feelings for him were still there but they had faded away into background mixed with other
emotions, they were no longer holding the prominent position they used to hold. Liza wondered if it was
falling out of Love, Liza shook her head at the notion and went around pulling out the dinner from the
oven.
Dinner had been a quiet affair between Steve and Liza and she could see that something was
bothering Steve. "Alice ising for a sleepover, do you mind sleeping in the guest room?" she asked.
Unlike every other time when Steve pouted at the thought of sleeping apart and was dead set on
sleeping beside Liza, iming that he couldn''t sleep without her, Steve just nodded. Liza frowned. She
walked up to him and sat down beside him. Nudging him, she asked, "Is something wrong?".
Liza had this unexinable feeling in the pit of her stomach that said that something had changed.
Steve looked at her and said "This isn''t working out anymore, is it?. Liza was confused for a second
before realization dawned upon her. She wanted to say that it was fine, they had merely hit a bump that
they would get back to their original passionate rtionship once this phase passed over but she
couldn''t because she knew that it wasn''t working out. So instead of choosing in replying with a yes or
no, she said: "A writer doesn''t stop writing a story because of a writer''s block." Steve''s lips quirked into
the ghost of a smile and he said: "But he does stop writing the story when he stops feeling it." Liza''s
eyes widened at his response and she realized that he had implied that he had fallen out of love. Steve
took Liza''s hand, tracing the ring he had givenst year, he looked up at her and said: "Do you
remember the promise I made you while giving this ring?" Liza nodded "I want to keep that promise. It''s
not that I don''t love you anymore, it is because I love you, because I would hate it if I ever left you, we
have to end it".