Sweet Like Chocolate!

They talked.

"She worked in the night shifts and liked it very much."
"Yeah, don't know about the work though but she was fond of the timings."
"I know! She thought it was as if when you sleep after work and everyone else is awake, they are taking care of you - not disturbing you consciously. And in the night when everyone is asleep and you are awake - you are looking at all of them - sleeping in their innocence."

Exactly the same way he looked when he slept - with his hair tousled and his brows drooped, he looked like a child - he always had.

"Do you remember how fat she had grown towards the end?"
"Yes, of course with all that sweet stuff she always kept having - God forbid anyone with such a desire of anything sweet."
"Of course, why have all that sugar and kill yourself."
"People say she went on gulping copious anything with sugar after he passed away. That made her sicker by every passing day."

He was such a conscious freak that he would never have anything sweet - she had told his sister once when they were in the high-school. In the school she would have a sweet custard and he would have French fries during the recess. At home she would have a cream roll while he would go for a chicken roll. At the weddings she would savor the cake and he would be content with the drink. At thanksgivings while she would be tasting all the puddings possible, he knew he would be having just the turkey. At their wedding he fed her the cake with his own hands and when her turn came, he just kissed her cream covered lips - that was all he had of it. And when they danced the ball in the reception, she had asked her in contempt about having the cake at least at this occasion. He had whispered to her, "You know Ruth, when we were kids, and the first time you had asked for that candy, I wanted you to have it so much that I just couldn't have it. And then the more I saw you the more I felt like me not having the sweets will make everything sweet for you. Call me crazy, but I had always wanted you to be happy and get all that you wished for. I love you Ruth." She had not known what to speak then. Everything was just so sweet like chocolate. Choked she had danced with her head resting on his chest.

Song: Bittersweet Symphony ...