Prologue

"Rose! Where are you, Rose?" Jack came onto the roof where Rose was sitting looking at the stars in the sky blue. The moon was half veiled by the clouds and half revealing just like a newly wed bride.

"Rose! O Rose! You are sitting here and I was looking for you everywhere."

Rose was calm and looked absorbed deep in her thoughts.

"Rose???" He shook her shoulders from behind.

"Hi, Jack!" She exclaimed.

"Rose, I have got a great story for you. It will move your heart a lot. I'm sure you will love it!"

"Wow, Really. I am excited to hear, Thanks Jack!" She was smiling. Her face was glowing with the blaze of the stars. "Where is it?" She looked searchingly.

"No! It's no story book! I will tell you the story. It's a real one! My God! A rare one!" Jack's eyes were looking unusually joyful. They seemed as if they had seen a great treasure.

"Jack, I love it when you have a story for me. Now, tell me the whole story."

"But, Rose, it will not finish until the dawn. Are you ready to spend the whole night sitting beside me and listening to the story?"

"Yeah, Jack." She said in a whispering voice. She didn't know how to express herself. She expressed herself by means of smiles and lovely looks that she always gave to others whenever she could not say something in words.

"Rose, the story is about a boy and a girl. They loved each other so much. But you know, Rose, they never saw each other in person. Never!"

"Never?", Rose said surprisingly.

"No, never!" Jack too looked surprised.

Rose - but is it possible?

Jack - When 2 hearts believe, love makes it possible. It really happened Rose, its not a made up story.

"I think that is interesting. Jack, tell me the whole story now." Rose always loved love stories. She would sit under the starry sky and read love stories or Jack, who was the only friend she had got, would tell her curious stories. There was some unusual twinkling effect in her eyes. Jack wanted to kiss them but then he stopped. He sat beside her. Rose reclined her head on the swing.

"Rose, I came across an old woman in the town today. She was a story teller. She said that it was the true story of her friends with whom she had studied in the college."

"Where's she now, Jack?"

"I don't know. I was just walking down there at the beach and she was telling some young lovers that True love has nothing to do with physical contacts. True love is bound with the souls of two lovers. There are no meetings or partings when two hearts are beating in love. The distance between them fades away and what remains is the nearness of the souls."

"Wow! So true!" - Rose.

Jack paused for a moment and looked at her twinkling eyes. Rose was smiling. Sometimes a gust of air blew her black and brown locks.

Jack :"But some of them couldn't understand what she was saying. They said to her." Jack then narrated to Rose the entire incident.

The people said : "We don't believe in such love. If we don't meet our loved ones for long the love itself fades away! Do you believe that love can go on without meeting each other?"

Sarah : "Yes! Love is beyond space and time. It reaches out to the heart of the person that you are missing. Love binds two souls and not two bodies. It happened with my two friends who loved each other without knowing and seeing each other."

A girl told her to tell the story of her two friends. And when she had finished the story, everybody's face was wet with tears. I thanked the old woman and ran to tell you the story. She looked at my back until I was out of her sight."

Rose thanked him with her smiles. "Jack, what happened to the boy and the girl then?"

Jack started to narrate the story :

"Rose, it was a cold morning of December. The girl was visiting this place to see one of her aunt who lives in a nice cozy cottage. This story is about Emily who was nick-named by her friends 'Fairy'. She was different from her sister's, friends or any girl for that matter, different because she believed in Love, In loving someone she hasn't even met.

Rose - she never met him ever?

Jack - No , Rose.

Rose - that's so sweet. Tell me about her.

Jack - I will but you promise you will listen very quietly without asking anything till I complete the story.

Rose (chuckles) - okay , I will not say a word.

Jack smiled and continued with the story.She grew up believing in fairy tale , believing her life would not be any less then a Fairy tale and she would have a forever love. She would have her own prince.

Her Prince! He might not be the handsomest man on earth. Not even the richest one too but he would have the purest of the heart and soul and he will love her with the same purity throughout eternity. He would be her Prince.

She has been dreaming of him all her childhood, had imagined and visioned and had glimpses of him in the heart of her mind's eye. She has not met him yet, she wished and hoped and prayed to find him. She tried to identify him in all the faces she seen but failed, was proved wrong. Her Prince just hadn't made it to her reality yet but she knows he is there, in her future, waiting for her to meet him there as eagerly as she been for him. She can feel in her heart his heartbeats, the feel of him in the air she breathes , in the pace of her heart his heartbeats and she just have to close her eyes and they meet in dreams, in her imaginations. It's all virtual now but someday it will be real. Some day...somewhere....she will meet him and this feeling and thoughts kept her lively, moving and smiling. His smile on her lips....her happiness in his eyes....someday...one day....and her forever will start that day.

She might not be Cinderella to lose her shoe to find her prince or Rapunzel for that matter who will lift him up to set her free only to be lost in him, or Snow-white to be kissed and awakened by a Prince or any other princesses but yet she knows, she believes her destiny has a Prince in store for her - Her man. She would be his Princess and he would be her prince.

Rose was all feeling very dreamy about what Jack had just said about that girl. It might seem strange to most people , falling in love with someone you never met , but does not every girl grows up with this image on her mind ...of the Right kind of guy for her... maybe This girl was little too involved with her dreams and hopes but still Rose could relate to her... to the idea of loving and waiting for the one who has been created and sent upon earth - Only for you.

Jack glanced towards her, hoping he could make her see what he feels for her since always but couldn't bring himself to tell her, afraid he might lose her friendship if she says no and things goes awkward between them. It was when he heard this story and could relate to it, he decided he will share with her...and then he will tell her...not fearing of what her reactions could be...but, Better Now than Never...