Waiting
ANOTHER ~EmeraldRain FAN FICTION.
Rewritten 29th July 2002
If I cry long enough, hard enough, will you feel my tears as if they were your own?
I watched you go three years and twelve days ago. You didn't know I was there, but Max did. He hurt me more that day than anything else could've. He made you leave first. You were gone before I could even think about saying goodbye to you.
The days slip by without my noticing. Sometimes I think I get I'll from lack of sunlight, although that feels impossible considering all the hours of sun bathing Maria and I used to do. I still see her. She comes to visit once a year, on the anniversary of the day you left. Every time she leaves she tells me that she'll try to visit, that it's just too painful, that I remind her of you... of all of you. I'm always tempted to ask her why she married Kyle but she'd never answer. She asks me what I'm waiting for, when I'm going to get on with my life. She says you'll never come back and I tell her she doesn't know you like I do. I tell her you promised. That you wouldn't lie to me and that I told you I'd wait if you ever left.
She loves asking this part, but she never expects the answer I give.
"How long are you going to wait Liz?" I give her my yearly smile and whisper
"I'll wait until forever for one more minute with Michael. I love him."
She sighs and leaves and I wonder why she visits at all.
But I know one day she'll walk in and stop, seeing light stream through the windows and life back in my world and you and I will greet her and I'll finally be able to tell her that you came back for me.