As I looked in the mirror I looked the same as yesterday. My skin was still pale, with freckles that aligned my cheek bones, my short brown hair aligned my face. Except I wasn’t the same because he walked into my life… again.
It was so sudden his leaving. One day we were having a romantic picnic at the beach, and the next he was gone; he disappeared as if in thin air. My heart broke into a million pieces as I said say good bye to him. I cried myself to sleep for months, I slept in a shirt he left behind, until one day it lost his scent. My heart craved for the melody of his laugh, for the voice that gave me goose bumps every time I heard him speak.
Four years have passed since the day we said goodbye. It would be a lie to say that I have moved on, when in reality my heart has barely recovered as it is. That day he left will haunt me for the rest of my life. To have his family blaming me for his absence is unbearable.
When I decided to take a stroll down what we called the passageway to our dreams, walking down the passageway I feel like I am in a secret land, a land you could only dream about. The scenery is breath taking. It was here where I first laid eyes on him, and it was here that he asked me to be his forever, but forever wasn’t as long as we planned.
When I came to the end of the path, I heard what I thought was a soft whisper. However when I turned around no one was there, but then I heard my name. I told my self “don’t freak out, Alice just breath, no ones there“. Then I heard a voice say “still talking to yourself are we? I see some things never change.” The same voice made my heart skip a beat, and when I looked at my arms I had goose bumps. I could feel the burning of the tears building up in my eyes, when I turned around I saw the face I have been dreaming of for four years. With the tears that I was trying to hold back, pouring down my face I ran to do what I have longed to do for years, touch him. Just when my arms were about to...