What it would feel like

And what it might be like

You wrote my name in the sand

Why did you have to leave Phil? You promised me, you would never hurt me, and then you leave. You leave me forever. You didn't keep your promise Phil. You didn't keep your promise. Because I'm hurting more than I ever did, because you're not here to pick up the pieces.

Keely walked around the house in a daze the next morning. She had hoped that it had all been a bad dream, but when she had rung the Diffy household this morning, she had only got a message saying the phone number was not in use. "Keely. Can you tell me what the matter is now? I heard you yelling last night," Mrs Teslow said sympathetically. Keely had been too distressed to talk to her the night before, and now she wanted to know what her daughter was like this for. Keely shook her head slowly. "Mom, Phil left. He went back to Kansas. Or wherever he used to live. He's gone mom, and I'll never see him again"
"Honey," Mrs. Teslow said, hugging her daughter. "Do you want to stay home from school today"
Keely shook her head. "No. If I stay here all day, I'll just be depressed. I mean, more depressed than I am now"
"Okay. Keely, don't let it get you down. It'll be hard, for a while, but you still have Via, and Owen. At least you have some friends," Mrs. Teslow tried to make Keely feel better. She hated seeing her daughter like this. It broke her heart. Just like Keely's had been broken. "But none of them are him," Keely sobbed, and then ran out of the house.

When opened my locker at school, I knew it would be awful, but I never expected this. All the pictures of me and you Phil. All of them, bringing back memories that made me miss you even more.
I looked at the picture of us at the beach. When we flew the Skyak to Los Angeles and went to the beach. And we got that man to take a picture of us. The only thing I didn't notice, was in the background. As I stared at the picture, I saw it. I thought that if I stared at it for long enough, it might take me back. Take me back to that day. And then I saw it. In the sand. And it dawned on me. All those times I almost told you I loved you, you were aching to tell me too. But we never got as far as telling each other. In the sand, inside a huge heart, was KEELY. I had never been so happy to see my own name.