This is where I'll put everything non-anime related. I will definitely put in short stories, possibly some poetry, and...maybe a chapter story. We'll see. Hope you enjoy!
- Created By cherrichan13
Click
I turn the page, my hands clumsy.
We smiled up from those perfect pages. The sun was bright behind us, and we were laughing at a joke forgotten over the long years. Back then, it didn’t seemed like anything could go wrong. It seemed like we were going to spend the rest of our lives that way, just enjoying the sunny day, not wondering about what would happen next. We had years and years before we were going to have to think about the future.
We thought we did, anyway.
She moved. Lauren moved. She moved 300 miles away, in the beginning of our first year of middle school. And there was nothing we could do about it. Except cry. No more all-night movie marathons. No more raiding her bookcase. No more days lazing around in the sun. No more time.
Friends of mine have moved before. But this was so much worse. This was Lauren. The one person I never imagined would be forced to move away and leave me here. Lauren was…she still is…my closest friend, the one person who understands me better than anyone in the world. We just click. It was always so natural for us, so easy.
And it still is. Now, there are three hour phone conversations, page long e-mails, New Year’s celebrations over a webcam and a dinosaur of a computer.
And, of course, the visits. When I go to visit, 300 miles away, it’s like nothing ever changed. So what if I’m in the middle of the country? So what if it’s a little too hot, there’s a little too much clay, and there’s a little less civilization? It doesn’t change anything. We’re both there, and we’ve stolen a little more time. And we still click.
It’s still so easy. I turn another page. We smiled up from those perfect pages. And curled up on the couch on just another sunny day, I smile, too, mascara running down my face. A small tear pooled on the protective plastic pages, swirling with dark mascara and a dark sorrow.
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