"When you look up to the sky, I will be there watching you. Search for the brightest star, and you'll find me there. I will not leave you. Never."
He said those words every time they part ways, every time she went back to the city; he would always make sure to say those words to her. But for their final goodbye, he missed it. As she grew up, stars are always her favourite, her guardian, her very best buddy to talk to every night. Now, she's 23, and she stills the same, an 11-year-old girl who needs her star to be there for her.
Lisa gazed at her bright friends up in space and their pattern that seems so fixed yet ever-changing. In every direction, there is a star; she wants to fly up into the universe in any way that she can. She tilted her head, gazing upward, eyes more open than they can ever be, looking at one star, yet somehow seeing them all at once. But, she kept on searching. Her eyes were wandering and searching for the brightest star. In a moment, she found the most luminous star amongst all the stars, shining so bright as she smiled and said. "I know you will always be there, always."
She tapped her heart with her right hand and said: "Stay forever underneath, deep inside you."
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