Cleo stared out of the plane window in despair. It's the year 2019. Exactly 2 years since she left Christian.
Throughout the years she has never forgotten those words that the doctors told her a week after she left. "Cleopatra. We don't know how it happened but you're cured. We've never seen anything like this happen before. Congratulations." Cleo walked out of the hospital that day a free woman with no one to go back to.
Of course she thought about going back to Chris, but she could never put him through that. She could never see him again. Until now.
Cleo was headed back to America. Back to the house that made her feel at home. Back to him.
Once she landed, she went to that house. And she waited for hours scared to knock on the door. Scared to face him. Scared to see him moved on.
But she remembers his promise that he made to her in the middle of one late night, when he thought that she was asleep. She repeats them in her head, 'I will always love you.'
She knocks on the door and swears she's never seen a look on someone's face so confused. She looked Chris in the eye and said words that she never thought she'd be able to say again, "Hi, Chris. I'm alive. And I will always love you." And then she kissed him.
After all these years their love never fails. And for once, Cleo the Runaway isn't going anywhere.
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Runaway Cleo
Short StoryCleo has been gone for almost 3 years and Christian was just beginning to not miss her. She never even said goodbye. But what else is he supposed to do when she knocks on his window one night with devastating news? So he lets her back into his life...
