before

109 13 5
                                    

⌠ 1 ⌡

Before this.

Before the library.

Before meeting her through him,

before the misunderstandings,

before Ai,

before love.


Alone.


Some kind of dark pit,

unable to be climbed out of.

Try and try again,

you tumble back down.


You see people around you,

connecting,

laughing,

you wonder,


how?





⌠ 2 ⌡ 

 Because how

could

they

share

parts

of

themselves?

Was it not scary

No hesitation

no regrets

nothing

betrayal

pain

misery


only happiness?

So freely.

I envy them

I hate them

despise

jealous


i want to be like them too...




⌠ 3 ⌡ 

But in the midst of it all

I found it.


In the rain.


It was pouring,

big fat drops condensing into needles,

pricking away at my skin,

9 meters per second.


My jacket already soaked

My glasses fogging up

The sky was so dark

Like the sun had never existed.


It happened.


When we passed by each other.

I knew it was her.


The girl across from me in the library.


This was so long ago-

before everything.

It doesn't even seem real anymore.

A memory

muddled by time.


Still.


She was carrying an umbrella.

I was holding a soggy textbook over my head.


She stopped me,

fretted about my clothes

told me I'd get a cold.


Me. A complete stranger.


I told her I was fine,

insisted it.

But she forced her umbrella into my hand

and ran off,


you don't need to return it!


She doesn't remember,

but I do.




Light finally reached me.

Wingman ⌠Cell Phone Novel⌡Where stories live. Discover now