The Promise

The Promise

Prologue

2 Years Before.

Right at that moment, I wanted to tell her. All the feelings seemed to cross my mind, trying to break through the barriers until I actually spoke the words. It was hard for me in some sense, because even though I could feel her soft gaze fall upon my stressful expression, I struggled to tell her how I felt about.

Although I knew that in the morning i had to leave for my long journey back across the country, I couldn’t just let her go back to living her life and forget about all those times when we were together.

Kate glanced at me from underneath her delicate lashes, her green eyes pleading for me to end the awkward silence.

With no words appearing in my mind at that moment, I simply decided on a different course of action. Leaning down slowly, and kissed her.

The snow fell down heavily onto our hair, like thin layers of dandruff. Realising just how many different problems I had caused myself, I shrugged them away to think about later, since the soft feel of her warm lips grazing against mine melted them away, along with my heart.

Her small hands clenched and unclenched by my side, her breathing hitching. Leaning back, i opened my eyes and let my vision focus to see her big, wide green eyes looking up at me. A look that shattered my heart into miniscule pieces, since I knew that in less than four hours, I would have to trek back up the path, away from her house, away from her town, to the train station.

After being with Kate for over four years as friends, it struck me as odd how we never realised our feelings for each other until now, the day before I was moving away to the other side of Britain with my family.

“Promise we’ll see the snow fall together again in the future?” She whispered, the wisps of her breath dissolving in the frosty air.

Smiling faintly, I took her hand in mine, intertwining both our fingers together. I never wanted to let go.

“I promise,”