Why we said goodbye
Freddie's POV
Setting: Seattle 2017
I remember sunday mornings walking on the beach
This morning I woke up around 9:30. Alone in bed. Like everyday since she left. Everything we did together. But now, it seems like everything was erased between us. I got out of my bed and walked into the kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee. I stared out of my window, gazing at the cold ocean waves crashing against the boardwalk. How she loved when the ocean was all stormy. Now it just reminded me of the heartbreak I caused myself. But Sam had always been a runner. From the day I met her, I knew, she would never be able to be tied down.
It started to rain, complete with thunder and lightning. Yet through the wind, rain and hail, a little dingy restaurant down the road stood out.
And that place we'd stop for breakfast with the old
red vinyl seats
For the life of me, I couldn't remember what it was called, and honestly, I didn't really care. Sam liked to eat there. It reminded her of those cheesy black and white movies from the fifties where boy meets girl and they fall in love. She told me that somewhere in the very back of her head, she wished it had happened to her. And for three years it did. We had a complicated, but unique relationship. It really wasn't perfect, but that's what made it so.
The hours of the tide chart
When I turned 18, I was out of my mothers house as fast as possible. I decided what I wanted to do, and went to college and became a computer software designer. While I was on campus at Seattle university, I discovered someone from my past was there too. Sam, studying Marine Biology. The most random subject, especially for Sam, but she told me that she didn't want to have a completely pointless life, so she drew careers out of a hat and picked marine biology. I hadn't talked to her since we broke up when we were 17. But through the four years we were at college, we grew closer, both feeling that there was something missing in our lives.
The way the sunlight danced upon your face
After we realized we were meant to be together, both our lives changed. I brought Sam to my apartment, and when she saw how close it was to the ocean, she fell in love, not only with me, but my life. we did everything. From charting ocean waves to fixing Sam's laptop when it broke. Picnics on the beach, watching movies late into the night. There was not one single thing that I didn't do without her.
That antique roller coaster you just had to ride
One time while walking on the beach, we found an antique carnival, with five or six people there. I was hoping we could walk right through it and not stop, but I knew Sam too well. She had a love for roller coasters and dragged me onto the biggest, scariest one.
I remember how you laughed at the terror in my eyes
I clung to the coaster car the entire time, terrified. Sam, she was laughing so hard at me and how much fun that roller coaster was. After she left, the amusement park was torn down. Now, all that was left, were splinters and nails. Everything seemed to break, or get torn down after her.
The color and the detail just like it was yesterday
It's hard to believe that it was only a year ago that she walked out my door. It seemed like she had been away for forever. Yet i can remember everything. When she left, she didn't take anything. Not even her wallet. I kept in in a drawer in my desk, just in case she ever came back.