The Amalgamation: Alex and Reda

Ashik Shaffi
2 min readMar 27, 2021
Photo by Vasily Ledovsky on Unsplash

How much I can take? she asked. Alex was unaware throughout the conversation, in fact, forget about the root of the topic they were squabbling about.

Reda considered Alex’s silence as blunt and began to weep, Alex standing nowhere between two options. One to let go of Reda and build his own independent lifestyle he always wanted, on the other hand, to console her by kissing her lips, even all those hard times she caused him.

As the moment is heated up, Alex feels discombobulated flashing those two different scenarios in his mind about the possible outcome that would show up.

Reda growing up facing a lot of affliction throughout her family, the things we don’t wanna happen in our family could distress us, everything happened with her. Given the fact, Reda growing up as a girl was intelligent and full of confidence to get things done. But somewhere inside her, those hard times caused her trust issues, especially with guys.

She meets Alex somewhere on the parking lot across the mall, where she was heading to buy a pair of compression socks for his old dad to cover his swollen leg. They both halted near the counter and made some chatter about their hobbies and they grew an affection for each other...

With time both made love, went crazy for each other.

Every relationship has its blow, so as theirs. Alex realized and learned a lot about Reda along the way, getting to know her hard times and more like going back in time to experience all those adversity went through by her.

He began to absorb every bit of Reda's negative talk during their fight, consoled her at every end of the argument. But for how many days?

Reda was passionate about breaking into public speaking, as the nature of her job she began to communicate and hang out with other people out there. Since Reda is receptive to things thrown at her, but on the same wheel getting influenced real soon.

As it goes, the time spent by Reda and Alex was brought down by 2 days a week. Things between them were not healthy, rapid arguments filling up those 2 days a week with nothing but fights and arguments.

Reda began to lose interest in Alex, her inner bad omens started to elevate within her. She was gradually comparing her hard times with Alex’s relationship and losing interest in him with time.

What’s next? Stay tuned for more…

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