Epilogue:After

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I stared up at the sun, thinking of everything in my life. I thought of you. Your face, your smile. I can still picture your face. The way you breathed, and the way you talked. You were the one for me. And of course I still love you. I know you're gone, and every night, I cry myself to sleep, but you already knew that didn't you? Don't die again. Stay with me. Forever.

When I met you, you were running down the street, and I watched your legs push you past me. You were amazing, my everything in that moment. I couldn't work up the courage to say hi, but I was in your way so you pulled me along, for the full ride it seems. I hung around, and I made sure you lived. And with that, our friendship became something more. You became love. You were everything good in the world. You were all that I treasured. I wish I had the chance to say goodbye.

Every night, it flashes through my head, over and over again. The man, you, the knife, the blood. Oh there was so much blood. I held you, kissing you until you were well past gone, and I still love you. You left for me. Some nights, I wish it was me who had taken the knife. In some ways it is. I still see your eyes everywhere I go, and I hear your voice over my shoulder, and some days, I think you're next to me.

I guess you still are.

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