Our Promise

The Day When My World Came Crashing Down

I often look back on my life and wonder if something is wrong with me. I think everyone reaches a point in their life where they take a moment out of their day and just list all of the negative things about themselves. Growing up, I always had a low self esteem but that all changed when I met the one person who changed my life. I am so lucky to have even met someone so amazing like him.

Dominic. He was the only person that I ever felt comfortable with, well other than my parents of course. He made me feel so special. I had so many wonderful memories with him that will be in my heart till the day I die.

There wasn't anything that I did not know about him. He was just so perfect. Is it even possible for a human being to be so perfect? Everyone always says nobody is perfect but I whole heartily one hundred percent disagree with that statement. Dominic Wilmur is perfect, in fact I remember once I told him him that I thought he was and I remember that conversation precisely.

We were sitting in the meadow surrounded by tall thin flowers and he was sitting behind me so that I was leaning against him. He was playing with my hair and that was the exact moment that I told him that I thought he was perfect. He joked about it for a little while but stopped when he realized that I actually meant it. He stopped playing with my hair and I turned around so now we were sitting crisscrossed in front of each other. I remember how he wrapped his arms around me and leaned his head against my shoulder as he whispered words that brought tears to my eyes.

He first thanked me for calling him that and even talked about himself for a bit which in return made me laugh. I leaned my head also against his shoulder and wrapped my arms against him so now we both shared a tight warming embrace. He leaned gently against my ear and told me how he was also pretty lonely until I showed up and saved him from his lonesome life. He started telling me about all the business trips that his parents had and how all he did was sit at home and only share conversations with the maids that worked at his house.

"I will never forget how you turned my life around in such a wonderful way. You are the reason why I smile every time I wake up. It's because I know that I will see you again."

Those were the words that caused me to cry that day. I always thought that he was the one that saved me from my life. He was my first and only friend and I loved him for that. I just always thought that he was the one who saved me but I'm glad that I could also save him.

Two years. We spent two years together and I don't know how, I don't know when, but somehow throughout these years I grew a very fond place for him in my heart. Slowly that fondness turned to love.

To be completely honest, I don't know how a small child like myself can even know the definition of the word love but somehow I knew that I did love Dominic. Maybe it was because he was the first boy that ever gave me flowers. Maybe it was because he was the first boy to call me beautiful and make me feel special, wanted. All I knew for sure was that I was falling head over heels in love with him.

Dominic's 8th Birthday.

"Where is the bear?" I asked looking around everywhere. I got up to make sure that I had not sat on it although I think I would have noticed.

Dominic and I had made a tree house over the last 2 years that we had met. It was actually pretty difficult to make because we didn't exactly know what we were doing. The 'tree house' is actually just a couple blocks of wood that is messily nailed on. Of course since Dominic was older than me and extremely protective of me, he didn't let me hammer the nails down because he thought that I would get hurt. To be honest, I never expected the tree house to look so good but surprisingly it did.

Nobody knew about it except for us and I liked it that way because I find that if something is secretive, that just makes it all the more special. The tree house wasn't exactly perfect but for a 6 and 8 year old, it was pretty impressive. We brought stuff from our homes and put it in the tree house to make it look better. At first I was scared that my parents would find out that I took things from home and placed it in the tree house but I only took little things. I knew my parents would notice if I took to much because we did not exactly have that much stuff in my house to begin with. Dominic on the other hand comes from a very rich high class family so they don't really notice if anything goes missing. We even have a baby blue bird house right next to the tree house.