Love Everlasting

Chapter One

"I was 17. She was 15. 1,573 miles between us. Yet I still fell in love at hello. It all started on a stupid dating app for my outdated smartphone. I immaturely used it to find reckless hook ups.

Everything change after finding her. We flirted, we laughed, we told secrets and stayed up all night both having things to do the next day. Everything negative disappeared in a matter of a few hours. She was a drug and I was high off my ass.

My name is James. Hers Makayla. The sound of her name sent chills down my spin. Her voice made my heart skip. The sparkle in her eyes. The way her skin glowed. Her face would crinkle when she would smile. Her laugh. I was breathless. She had beautiful brown eyes and gorgeous long brown hair. Stood about 5'3" about 120lbs. She was perfect.

I never let anyone in. You let someone in and they have the power to cause unspeakable damage. Wounds that'll take time to heal and scars that'll always remain. Yet she got in without needing to try. I didn't fall for a piece of ass. I fell for her beautiful, unique heart.

As you can tell by now. We had obstacles that we were aware of, but we didn't care. We were young and crazy. This love blazed through us like a wild fire at Yellow Stone National Park. Nothing had the power to defeat us. "

My best friend interrupted me,
"What about her parents?"

"As I mentioned. Nothing will defeat us. Nothing will stop us. If you're asking did they agree. No they didn't. Did they care? Not enough. As long as we weren't talking dirty and sending nudes they didn't care."

He asks,
"Did you?"

"Well of course we did. We were sneaky about it. Yes there was many times where we were almost busted. Thankfully we weren't.
My birthday was coming up. I was about to be 18 and what we were doing was becoming more illegal with everyday. that mattered but we still had that fire boiling our blood. Things were great. Well as great as they can be for 1,573 miles apart and an illegal age difference. "

Another question fell out of his mouth,
"What happened?"

"Well lies were told. Trust was lost and our cute lovey conversations turned into rage fed fights. The thing with a love so powerful. The pain and hurt is just as powerful and with pain like that rage, not anger but rage occurs. Words that should stay unspoken break the seal of our lips and wounds are cut into our hearts. A heart can only take so much before it breaks. Unfortunately hers broke before I learned to trust her again.

Now I'm not blaming her. It was both our faults. She had a boyfriend when we first started talking that I wasn't aware of. That was a big trust problem from then on out. She's beautiful and I let my insecurities drive some of the fights."

"So she left you" he asks

"Yes, she left while I was in college. I almost failed my classes. I broke things. I was going through a horrible heartbreak alone. My family was back at home. My roommates were afraid of my anger and my friends didn't know how"

He interrupts again,
"So how did you get over her?"

"I never said I did."