muse

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⌠ 1 ⌡

There's nothing I can do but watch.

Watch her leave.

Each 

slow 

footstep

takes her further away from me.


Further and further.

Until I can barely

see her anymore.


Is this really...

how I want things to end?

After everything that's happened.


Time is strange in this way.

All these peaceful days

have washed away the sadness.

And I'd forgotten how loneliness feels,

even if for a short while.


It was only one year.

A fragment of our lives.

A distant high school memory.


Would I...

Would she remember this time we spent?

Would everything...


disappear?




⌠ 2 ⌡

I'd always wanted this.

Genuine friendships.

A place to belong.


And finally, I received it.

The library, the tree, the old clubroom.

All places that I...

that we existed in, together.


But humans are greedy.

I received what I yearned for,

and still wanted more.


I wanted love.


Was this my fault?

Was this the result

of everything I'd built towards?


Maybe...

it wasn't possible for me.

The shadow

of myself.

Of long ago.

It's still there.

The person,

who was always alone.

It hangs over me,

always,

always,

always.



I'm so tired...




⌠ 3 ⌡

Always so difficult

to create a bond.

So easily broken.

I'd wanted so desperately

to change.

To become someone I wasn't.

To avoid being in solitude.

To avoid being hurt

and used

and unnoticed.

Most of all...

I wanted a

place to belong.

And that place

was Ai.

Was I being selfish

to her?

Placing such a burden on her.

When neither of us

could escape our

own circumstances.


Did I even deserve

this idea

called...

happiness?




⌠ 4 ⌡

I watch the sunset until it's dark.

The air cools

and the breeze is chilly now.


Time is passing.

Every second,

every minute,

every hour

takes me closer

to the day that Ai leaves.


2 days.


"It's really goodbye, huh..."


My chest aches.

Pain,

pulsating

throughout

my entire torso.


Regrets

are washing 

over my thoughts

like a roaring waterfall

drowning everything else out.




You know...

The blue sky 

always

leaves

too soon.

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⏰ Last updated: Sep 10, 2021 ⏰

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