As the days passed and summer turned to autumn and autumn turned to winter, I never stopped thinking about Caspar. Ever.
I could see him more often now. He would smile and hug me and kiss me all over. It was paradise. I'd nearly forgotten that he'd passed.
So I lay in the back garden on the grass, my eyes shut. I could feel the cold of the snow pressing through my clothes and also giving me brain freeze. That's when I heard his voice:
"Hey...babe?" I heard him ask softly as he nuzzled my neck, looking up at me with his soft innocent eyes.
"Yeah Casp?" I replied, with the same amount of softness in my voice as I turned to him with a small smile.
"Let's run away. Let's run away together! We can be together like we always planned. You and me, against the world again!"
"Casp..."
"Come on Joe! Don't be so boring!"
I could hear the disappointment in his voice and I couldn't stand it any longer.
"Okay...I guess...where to?" I asked him, more excited myself now as I sat up, clutching his hands in mine.
"I thought France might be good. We could get a small cottage on the suburbs away from everyone and everything. Just the two of us. Just you and me." He explained excitedly, his pearly whites shining as he smiled widely, gripping onto my hands happily.
I considered the idea, thinking it over. I couldn't think of any bad side to it! Of course I wouldn't tell anyone else. I knew they would try and stop us and it wouldn't be fair.
I led Caspar upstairs to my room so I could go on my laptop. I waited for it to come out of sleep mode before I began booking our tickets for the ferry over to France for later that day.
Caspar waited on the bed, sipping some orange juice from a carton as I put a bag of stuff together which had a selection of clothes, money, toiletries, my passport, sweets, laptop, phone, my personal stuff and a picture of me and Caspar and plenty of other bits and pieces.
I felt a grin stretch across my face as I grabbed my car keys, leaving my house and bleeping my car open. Myself and Caspar got in.
Within three hours we had reached the ferry. I smiled a bright smile as I helped Caspar out.
I knew today would be a good day as I stepped onto the ferry.
