As Each Day Passes

"Are you looking?" he whispered down the phone to me.

I listened to his slow, shallow breathing. I glanced up at the moon as I leant against my window. I watched the stars twinkle as my heart warmed knowing that even when we're apart, we could look at the same starry night.

"Lucy?" he said, louder this time, checking I was still listening to him. I heard the strain in his voice, and I felt the lump in my throat I was so used to feeling every day.

"I'm here, I'm looking" I said quietly down the phone. He heard me sigh.

"Please don't be sad, I can't bear it knowing I'm hurting you" he whispered to me as his voice cracked. "I'll love you till the day I die."

I felt a tear slipping down my cheek, as I knew that day is closer than I want to think about.

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Lucy Dean and Harry Scott have been together since they were 14. They were friends throughout their childhood, went to school together and their worlds revolved around each other. They had the same friends, same interests, and their parents had been betting on when they were going to get married since before they could remember.

But then Harry got sick.

Harry's rare disease meant that Lucy hasn't seen him in 42 days, and counting. She misses his touch, his voice and his warm heart, but she knows that she must learn to survive by herself as she head's into her twenties, and stay strong for Harry.

Because he's all that she's got.

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