A Loss For Words

Ten Years

It's been ten years now. They're both thirty-one and the time remaining is all he can think about.

They had said ten years ten years ago and it seems pretty dead on because they both know she doesn't have much time left.

She just sits and stares out the window but he's pretty sure she's not really looking at anything.

Her parents and his parents and Olivia and Kyle come over one day and he wonders if she's close to the end because her eyes clear up and she smiles and he hasn't seen that in months. They all leave in good spirits but he doesn't have the heart to tell them what he's really thinking.

He curls up with her that night in their bed and she holds his hand and he strokes her face and he stares at her for hours because he doesn't know if she will ever be able to stare back at him after tonight.