All stories have the end

– I am going to tell Elizabeth Egan that I love her and that I want to spend my days with her. I can still help people while I’m with her.

–Oh, Ivan, you can’t!

–You taught me that there was nothing that I couldn’t do.

–No one else will see you but her!

   This was a conversation between Ivan and his boss Opal. She told him that she knew how to fall in love. Then they went to a strange house with a lot of photos in different frames. An ancient man was sitting there. This old man was Opal’s beloved. Opal watched as Ivan’s face displayed many different emotions in a matter of seconds. He went from confusion, to shock, to pity, and then as soon as he had applied Opal’s words to his own situation, to despair. 

   ‘That’s what I was trying to tell you, Ivan. You and Elizabeth can live together perfectly happy in your own cocoon without anyone knowing but what you forget is that she will have a birthday every year and you won’t.’