"NO, NO, NO, NO!! Why don't you understand! The Earth is round! R.o.u.n.d.!" said Christopher Baba Columbus to his friend Samuel the Stubborn. "I am knowing this because I've been around it!"
"Rubbish!" said our Samuel [here, Mister Christopher suffered a mild heart attack]. "So long as my soup doesn't spill from its bowl, I shall continue believing the Earth to be flat, thank you." And continued he, munching on his apple pie.
Until the day he decided to take a night-time stroll to the edge of the earth after a particularly heavy meal. That day changed everything for Samuel the Stubborn and he went to being called Samuel the Scared for the rest of his life.
But this story is about Samuel the Stubborn and not Samuel the Scared.
"You must never invest too much of affection and hope in any relationship, for You are not strong enough to deal with the ruins, lest it falls." Samuel was told by a person much beloved to him. Incidentally, since he was stubborn, he just disregarded the advice and went on loving his friends, unconditionally.
Thomas was a new friend Samuel made one day. Days changed to months and years and Samuel did not realise how Thomas became his best friend. He shared all his secrets with Thomas [whom he called Tom, when tipsy with all the ale]. Ale, and girls and his favourite apple pie, they bonded over. Thomas was the person who understood him the best, he said to his beloved advisor. "Why, I think he indeed is my closest friend. And so it shall be forever!"
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A year later, Samuel was sitting at his mahogany desk, his nib shivering, as he wrote about the wounds of his heart. The advisor was silent. Thomas no longer drank ale with Samuel. He went horse riding with Regulus, who claimed to care about Thomas the most. 'Tom' and 'Reg' enjoyed a lot. Samuel never bothered to argue, for he knew nothing would affect his companionship with dear ol' Tom.
His dear ol' Tom.
Like his dear ol' Earth.
How wrong he was then. How wrong he is now.
He is Samuel the Scared.
I am Samuel the Scared.
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