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Dear Avril,
I'm sorry I haven't written in a few weeks, it's just that I couldn't find the time to write a full scale letter, so I ended up just leaving words for you. Do you remember Jie Li from the last letter I sent you? She is now officially my friend, and she gets even more interesting the more you know about her. I mean, just today I found out that she has a collection of used candy wrappers that she uses to make wall art in her room. She's taught me how use a camera, and she's introduced me to Matt. Matt's a senior too and I think I'm in love with him. He makes me laugh the most after Jie Li, and he knows all about the world. It also helps that he has the most adorable freckles on his face. Everyday he sings to me and Jie Li, and Jie Li says she sees him staring at me when he sings the slow parts. I still miss the times you and I had, but I think having new friends is helping me live my life when you aren't writing to me. I think we are doing just fine, you and I.
Limerence
noun
the state of being infatuated by a person
Love,
Cara
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After writing the last letter, I didn't get a response for at least a week, I figured she was punishing me, and rightly so, but still I eagerly ran up the hill every day to see if I would find a letter dusted with speckles of dirt on the hill. When I finally got the letter, it wasn't what I expected.
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Dear Cara,
Mellifluous
Adj. (a sound that is sweet and smooth; pleasing to hear)
the sound of our voices mingling on the hill, our laughter, our sobs
Ineffable
Adj. (too great to be expressed in words)
our friendship
Ephemeral
Adj. (lasting for a very short time)
our loves and our losses, but mostly me
Sonder
noun (the realization that every passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own)
what we had when first met each other at that park bench, what compelled us to learn each other
Denouement
noun (the resolution of a narrative)
the end of this letter
The End,
Avril
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I read the letter in the seeming comfort of my room. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I flipped the paper over, staring at the blank sheet in my shaking hand. What did she mean by "The End"? First I felt anger, and then just sadness. I wished I could have known what she was thinking when she wrote this letter, but I knew when she said the end, she meant it. There were no in-betweens for her, just black and white. But for me there wasn't a letting go, and I knew that I had to find her, and when I did, I wished that I hadn't searched.
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YOU ARE READING
Remember Me
Short StoryCara is in a pyschologist's office, after events that unfolded six months before. After receiving letters from her best friend that moved away, Cara had to learn the hard way what it meant to move on.
