Dialogue Essays: The Letter

The Letter

Staring at the envelope, Serena instantly recognised the handwriting, poised with such great care and attention; it could only have come from Henrik Hanssen. The man who stolen her heart over coffee, the man who promised her the world, but only to up and leave for pastures new, without giving her a second thought.

She often wondered if that kind sensitive man she fell in to bed with was just a test, to see how far she would go to get her dream job. Maybe Henrik, after all, was just a cold enigma. When he said he loved her, it clearly was a lie; you do not love someone then leave them with no real explanation. He promised her upon leaving that she would take his place as CEO; he never spoke a word of their relationship as much as she tried to fight him.

That man broke her heart, and it taken him three months to get in touch with her, by letter. If their shambolic relationship breaking down wasn't hard enough to take, Serena found herself stripped of the CEO title, for a male candidate with half the qualifications she held. It stood as another promise Henrik failed to keep.

Opening up the envelope, Serena's heart began to pound, she almost wished that Henrik were hiding in the office behind, ready to take the letter from her, and surprise her by saying he had returned to Holby - just for her.

She had fallen in love with Henrik, and had fallen hard. He treated her like a Lady, although he came across as rather nervous in the early days of their six-month love affair. He blossomed in to a great lover, but then it just changed, and he had gone.

Grasping the expensive looking paper on her hand, she smiled; Henrik always put the right sentiments in to the things he did. Such as ensuring her paperwork handed to her in...

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...erfect for her. She had found herself the happiest she had been in almost a decade and she was willing to give up everything for love. Something she would never do for anyone else.

The phone on her desk ran, startling Serena; she wiped away a few of her tears and answered the phone, the final string in her heart holding out for Henrik. Unfortunately, her presence requested to AAU, "Yes, I will be there straight away"

For a moment or two, after placing down the phone, Serena just sat in her office chair without moving, not feeling the sense of urgency, taking a few deep breaths she placed the letter neatly in her draw, in an almost Hannsen like fashion. She thought the letter too precious to find itself tossed on a pile. An impulsive thought crossed her mind. If he was not going to come back for her, she was going to go out to him. Life is too meaningful to waste.