~Her~
I couldn’t believe he doesn’t know why. I thought it was obvious, it was to me anyway. “You really don’t know?”
He shook his head in response.
In a barely audible voice, even to me to I whispered “Because I love you”
I looked away from him, I knew it was useless to try make him see the bright side of life, that was stupid of me to admit that to him.
He was going to go now wasn’t he? I can’t watch him jump and feel like I done nothing about it, I can’t walk up to him to see him jump so I don’t reach him either. I can’t walk away from this either. So I looked away. I was a coward.
I waited.
I waited for a distinct ‘goodbye’, a thump, some noise from the impact, the flapping of bird’s wing, someone’s scream, something. But I heard nothing. Instead I felt warm arms wrap around me.
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Inspired To Live
Short StoryNo one cares. No one loves me. Heck, no one even likes me. No one will even notice if I go. It'll be so easy to leave. That's what you think right? You're actually believing the lies that your brain made up.
