car drove off,
airplane flew,
Did he even notice her absence at the airport? Or did all thoughts of her disappear from his mind?
He kept looking around, hoping to catch a glimpse of those familiar honey-coloured curls. But it was time to leave and she still wasn't there.
i stayed here,
missing you.
It wasn't that she didn't care enough to show up; it was that she cared too much.
He was surrounded by all his friends, but he had never felt so alone.
i grow old,
never see,
It was inevitable. The prince gets the princess, not the broken village girl. It's just not how the story's supposed to end.
He knew she would never agree to be with him if it meant hurting her best friend-her sister-in the slightest. It was hopeless.
that you were there,
missing me.
How many nights did she spend tossing and turning because the prospect of him laughing in her face with cold, hard rejection terrified her?
He had written out the same text to her over and over again throughout the years, admitting his feelings for her. But he always deleted it.
are we now?
what were we then?
No longer was there a smooth talking, hat-tipping cowboy sitting at the desk right behind her. She didn't expect the emptiness to crush her as badly as it did.
Only when he was back on the Texan farm did he finally gather the courage to press send. But the real challenge presented itself as he stared desperately at his phone, waiting for a reply.
will we look back,
and wonder when?
How different would things have been if she had received his text before he left? Would they have spent as much time together as possible, knowing that their days were numbered?
His heart leaped when he heard the alert for a new text. It soared when he discovered the blonde beauty reciprocated his feelings for her.
what could have been,
what isn't yet,
She moves on, graduating high school with honours and being accepting into a good college.
His heart stops when he sees her on campus. It breaks when he sees her on campus, kissing another guy.
will you remember or forget?
