The locket around my neck tells me so much more than anyone is aware. Three years ago, you and our friends mother, Cindy, got together to get me a Christmas present. Truth be told I didn't know Cindy well. I was around her a lot but we weren't close. So when I opened my gift, there was a new fuzzy teal blanket, a new journal, and the most staggering thing was a heart shaped locket.
You knew my favorite color was teal and I sleep with a special blanket every night. The journal was no surprise as everyone knew I loved to write. But that locket, I told you long ago that I've wanted a locket ever since I was a little girl. And Jared, you remembered. You made that dream happen. Cindy could've never known that as I had never told her.
Three years later I picked it up and put it on one day. It's still empty. No pictures inside. The pictures I want to put in there, I can't. It would be weird. So I wear it and know that it was a way for you to tell me that you know me. Even when no one else hears what comes out of my mouth, you will remember and show it somehow. You always play my favorite songs. You just know me. In a way that I cannot explain. We don't need words, just a look. And it's like our hearts connect. Because honestly I don't know how anyone else could see right through me like you do.
I long for your touch, your lips, your strong hands, your comforting voice, and that smile. I know you can handle me.
The night a few months back, you, Charles and I went to a party at some mutual friends house. We had all been drinking. Charles was drunk and throwing up. The hosts started physically fighting. I was panicking and an attack was coming on. I was trembling and shaking and crying and could hardly breath. All our stuff was in their spare bedroom. I couldn't leave without it. You took me by the arms and looked me in the eyes and told me that you would take care of it and that everything would be fine. That you would take care of me. You wiped a tear off my cheek and turned to enter the house where they fought. You came back with our stuff. You offered to drive me and Charles home. But I decided to drive home despite having been drinking. I made it home safe. And I messaged you to make sure you were okay. Because if someone had hurt you, I'd come back and kick some ass.
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RomanceA young woman falls in love with a man that is not her newlywed husband. She resists the urges that plauge her when he is near, but will it be enough?
