The Middle

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 [a note is crumpled in a bin]

6, 25, 1951

I miss you. I miss you so much, my heart tears from grief. I try to stop myself but it just keeps coming back. I wish things didn't have to end so abruptly; I wish we weren't cut short. I never felt happier than when I was with you. Now I feel so incomplete. All I want is for you to come back to me.

Why didn't you just take a step further? Why did you leave me to wonder, to chase you like a child after a kite? I knew how you felt, I could feel it within me. You waited until it was too late to admit it. I waited with bated breath, trying everything I could to make you love me. I didn't know it was so easy. I didn't know it was so inane.

I feel like you don't try.

Every time I think I can move on, I remember things. I remember you and I fall again. I wish we had been better of one another when we could. The damage is done. But I can still send you this letter. All I fucking want is to have you back.

You know, I

[last few words are unintelligible]

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