you were my sunshine

o3*

THE OTHER NIGHT, DEAR, AS I LAY SLEEPING / I DREAMT I HELD YOU IN MY ARMS

i miss you. i miss you so much that i can feel myself withering into nothingness as each day passes by without hearing your voice or feeling your warmth.  

we used to sleep over at each other's house a lot, struggling to stay up to see a shooting star (we always ended up falling asleep), smiling, laughing, making jokes, telling stories, whispering i love you's until our eyes came to a close.

it had always been like that.

until you had to move away.

when you told me the news, i felt the whole world crumbling down and every bit of myself breaking apart with it. i felt heartbroken for the first time.

on that day, we cried a lot.

it was too early. it was way too early and we both knew that.
in the few days left we had together, we made a promise to each other: that with or without that shooting star, we would always be together, we would always be the you and me we've always been, even if there were now hundreds of miles between us.

i slept over at your house the night before you left. we watched our favorite movies, talked about things we've never talked about before, held each other as tight as we could because we knew that we wouldn't be able to do that in a long time.  

we didn't know that the next time we would hold each other like that was never.