So This Is Love

She

This is the story of a girl. A young girl that is learning of love. She met a man online and fell for him. They texted every day getting to know each other. One night, the man proposed the idea of meeting.

It was late and quite dark out when she was waiting for him on a bridge. She was so excited to meet this man and arrived looking nice and dressed up. When the man arrived, he stepped out of his car and looked at her in the eye. He told her to look at the moon, the beautiful glistening moon, and told her to move on. He told her that the only thing she'll ever have in her life is the companionship of the moon's light. He got back in his car and drove off leaving the broken girl on the bridge crying as she looked over to the moon. She pondered upon herself...why did she have to go through that and why did it have to be her? After a while, she went off to her apartment, the lonely place she has lived in for years, before crying to sleep.

The next morning she awakens to a sore body and irritated eyes. She made some food and went for a drive to clear her mind. Somehow the girl ended up at a bookstore. There was nothing special about the bookstore. It was the go-to bookstore of the neighboring city. She walked in a took in a breath of the stereotypical smell of books before up to a blue book. It was in the back of the shop in the "adult fiction" section. Once opening it, she was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a comic.

From where she started reading, the book starts off with a boy, a beautiful blonde boy with bright green eyes and a tragic past. He appears to be running somewhere or towards someone with a sorrow look on his face. He unfortunately gets stabbed while running and is aware he's most likely going to die soon. In the next panel, there seems to be another boy. A black-haired anxious boy who's driving off somewhere. He has a sad expression on his face as if he's leaving something or someone to never see again. After the blonde was stabbed, the black-haired boy gets an awful feeling. A feeling that something is wrong and he starts to panic. He begins to beg his driver to take him to a long but narrow staircase that's downtown where he and his friend would hang out in the past. Once arriving, he's shocked to see the blonde with his hip bleeding out. The black-haired boy tries his best to beg and convince the blonde to go to the hospital. However, the blonde refuses to and says that he's content with how his life is ending and is glad that he could see his friend at least one last time. He told the boy to look at the sun, the shining yellow sun, and move on. The black-haired boy was left crying and sobbing as he saw his blonde friend pass away before his eyes...

The girl closed the book. She realized that she had tears running down her face. Her hands clenched on the book, she sat down against the bookshelf and with her face buried in her knees, she silently cried. She felt as if she was the only person in the bookstore. She felt like time stopped and it was only her, her thoughts, and her realizations. She was prepared to move on with her life. She was ready to be happy.