Remembering V and R

It’s been a year since I lost my good friend V. Time does fly. The evening is so fresh in my memory.

First week of October, While driving to a store, I took a left turn and drove through the road and crossed the apartment complex where V used to live 10 years back. My eyes welled up and cried so much in the car to the point I couldn’t see the road. It was dark and raining and it could have been worse . I stopped at a business place and gathered myself (well I cried more) and then continued driving to the store.  

 I met her for the first time in that apartment complex and R was a toddler at that time. He hangs around his mom even when she attended the customers in her home based beauty salon. He knew about each beauty procedures  well and the time it took to complete. I often heard him complain to his mom that she was just supposed to do eyebrows not facial since it took long time to complete. He would ask me if I can come tomorrow for a facial so he can go out with his mom today. She would wink at me and give her trademark smile. He was a sweet little boy. Mom and son duo were inseparable.

She was a sweetest woman I have ever met in my life. She had a big heart and a big smile. And I wanted to remember only that and not the incidents that happened last November.