A Summer Romance

Chapter Forty-Three - Skylar and Ryan

Chapter Forty-Three - Skylar and Ryan

"I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it."

-Ann Marie Frohoff

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Skylar

I tried to breathe evenly but that first look from Ryan, that one look, was so full of fear, hope, anger, pain, love…everything, that it took my breath away. I wanted to run up to the stage and hug him, to pull him to me and just hold him for the rest of my life. And when he smiled?

I swear, I felt like I was going to faint.

He continued to strum the guitar but his eyes stayed glued to mine as he sang in his velvety voice;

“A hundred days have made me older, since the last time that I saw your pretty face,

A thousand lies have made me colder, and I don’t think I can look at this the same,

But all the miles that separate, disappear now when I’m dreaming of your face,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still on my lonely mind,

I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still with me in my dreams,

And tonight, it’s only you and me, yeah.

The miles just keep rollin’, as the people leave their way to say hello,

I’ve heard this life is overrated, but I hope that it gets better as we go,

Oh yeah, yeah,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still on my lonely mind,

I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still with me in my dreams,

And tonight girl, it’s only you and me.

Everything I know, and anywhere I go,

It gets hard but it won’t take away my love,

And when the last one falls, when it’s all said and done,

It gets hard but it won’t take away my love, woah,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still on my lonely mind,

I think about you baby and I dream about you all the time,

I’m here without you baby, but you’re still with me in my dreams,

And tonight girl, it’s only you and me.”

Ryan’s eyes didn’t leave mine as he sang, and when he finished, he set down the guitar and started to walk through the crowd toward me. My palms began to sweat and my heart started to beat at a rapid pace. I had hated these feelings before, but truthfully, I had missed them. I missed all these stupid, mushy, amazing feelings.

When Ryan made his way to me, he smiled at me, and I couldn’t help but pull him into my arms and hug the life out of him. I didn’t care if it was just a coincidence that I was here and that he was actually singing this for someone else. I didn’t care if I was making a fool out of myself and that he would immediately push me away. All I had wanted was to hold him one more time, to see him through something other than a picture frame.