Her Secret Best Friend || N.H.

Chapter 47: Drifting Away

Please listen to See You Again while reading this, it'll add sooo many feels!

Bold italics are flashbacks!!! Enjoy xo.

5 years later

Dear Diary,

Wow, I don't know where to start. My therapist told me it was a good idea to write my thoughts down, to remove them from my mind. So I guess My name is Melanie, Melanie Campbell-Benson. Well, now it's just Campbell. Seven years ago, I was madly in love with a boy from my English class, Ethan. He helped me get over a heartbreak so intense, I knew he was the one for me. After a year of dating, he proposed.

"Ethan, what are you doing?" I laughed. "This is weird."

He brought me to an old abandoned farm, in the middle of nowhere. We were walking in the pitch black darkness of the barn, into God knows where.

"Babe, relax I'm not trying to kill you." He laughed, his tone anxious.

We continued walking for what seemed like forever before he brought us to a halt.

"Okay so you just wait right here and I'll be back, okay?" He said, his voice fading away into the darkness.

"Ethan, where are you going? Don't leave me here! It's dark!" I say, calling out with no idea where he went.

I stood there in the darkness, listening to nothing as the silence stood strong in it's place.

I waited, rocking back and forth on my heels to occupy myself from the anxiety that was threatening to take over inside of me.

There was the sound of someone running coming from my left. My breath hitches in my throat.

"Eth?" I call, hoarsely.

Instantly, I am blinded with the flickering of lights.

What seemed to be fairy lights came to life one by one, each in the form of a different letter.

I smile as I begin to figure out what the letters spell out.

My jaw dropped in shock as I realized what I had just read.

"Marry me." I whispered to myself, reading it aloud to myself to make sure it was right.

"Mel?" Ethan called from behind me.

I turned around and there he was, my guy, on his knees, a beautiful ring in his hand.

"I know, it's only a year. It may be too short and we may be too young but I never felt the way I do for anyone but you." He said, smiling widely. "From the moment I sat in front of you in the library, I knew that I wanted to make you mine and I did. But now, I want to go above and beyond that. I want you to be mine forever." I smiled, beginning to feel the tears stream down my cheeks.

"Melanie Sophia Campbell, will you marry me and be my forever?" Ethan said, his eyes watery.

I laugh through my streaming tears, sticking my hand out to him.

"Only if you'll be mine." I say, smiling.

Ethan laughed, getting up and sliding the ring onto my finger. I giggled lightly before crashing my lips onto his.

I couldn't stop thinking to myself, I'm getting married.

We had a small intimate wedding, his family more than mine. No day could top the happiness I felt on my wedding day. After that, we spent two weeks in France. While I was there, it was announced that Zayn left One Direction. I felt a complete and utter sadness knowing how devastated the other boys would've been.