Today

Today is the first day of my new life.
Today was the day I planned to go on a first date. It was also the day my best friend decided to kill himself. Today was the day Fate intervened.

I was preparing to go on my date when he sent me the message he couldn't come and would explain later. I was sad and decided to visit the botanical garden instead, where I've always felt at home. I was walking around a corner there, when suddenly my best friend came round from the other side. The knife he held in his hand went through my clothes and the skin of my stomach. Time stood still while we looked each other in the eye. We hadn't met for a year at least, and now this. Finally we both looked down at the blood staining my pullover. Hurriedly he pulled the knife out of me. That was the moment my date appeared behind him. He stared at us for a few seconds, then he was at my side, shouting at me to get out of my pullover. He took it and pressed it against the wound to stop it from bleeding. Without saying another word both men accompanied me to the next doctor.
The one we found first was a nice elderly woman. She looked at the wound and called an ambulance because it had to be stitched. But at least it wasn't serious, only seven stitches needed. We arrived at the hospital about fifteen minutes later. I got a local anesthetisation and while the medic looked after the wound my two companions explained to me what had happened.
My date had gone for a walk at the botanical garden to calm himself down before our date. There he had met my best friend about to cut open his wrists. He tried to talk him out of it and therefore cancelled our date. My friend argued with him, got angry because he couldn't do it with somebody watching and dashed away. That's when we met.
After the medic was done they both wanted to take me home. On the way we talked about that day. We were all sure that it had been fate.

I know, the day I marry the man I've met today, with my best friend as his best man, I'll show the scar to everyone and say: "This scar will always remind me of the day my life changed. It is my reminder for the love I give and get. It stands for the man I'm marrying today, knowing that I'll live happily with him. And it stands for his best man, with whom I will die. This scar is all I have."