Lilo's POV:

Life isn't always a golden road you take and never encounter disasters. Life may be a ride, but it isn't one of those exhilarating ones you get on in an amusement park or carnival. There are good aspects in life and there are ruinous sides to life as well. I have experienced it. Both the good part and the bad. I had lost my parents when I was only a mere child. I had lost my sanity and turned to strange beliefs that not any normal kid would favor. For that, I lost all chances of commencing friendships with my peers at my hula school. All I had in life was an obnoxious sister who doesn't have anything better to do than criticize me, a hula teacher that had no idea what I was going through, three snobby girls, and a desire to just die.

I was unwilling to continue life without my parents. They were the ones that brought smiles to my face everyday. They were the ones that kissed me goodnight and tell me they love me. They were the only ones who understood me in this stupid world. It was all about them. I was living because of them. I was happy because of them. I was building my life around them. With them, I thought nothing could go wrong. But as I said before, life is not a golden road. For some reason, fate took them away from me. My parents left me… all alone. They left me and I never got to say goodbye. I just wanted to curl into a corner and weep until death decided to pity me and take me as well.

Never happened.

I lived my childhood life as a shell. I didn't have a soul, it was lost in some other world. I didn't have a heart, it broke on me and the pieces were impossible to mend back together. The only thing that kept me from insanity was weird things. Believing in tales that would have every child screaming in fear. This resulted in my friends losing respect for me. That is if they were any of my friends.

That was the bad point in my life. That was what converted my shiny golden path into a murky black. I was lost. I was lost and alone. Though my sister and I were on the same page, we didn't cooperate well with each other. This left me alone without her support. Sure she came by to make up, but soon after that, it was back to the quarreling. When we quarreled, I was lost in that murky path and I had no hope of finding that golden path I had just fallen off.

I needed someone. An angel of some sorts. I just needed a hand to help me back on my feet. I needed a friend that would push me into the right direction. I needed someone who would never leave me. I needed supportive arms around me to hold me when I cry and needed someone else's contagious smile to brighten the dimness I carry so heavily inside me and cause me to smile genuinely. I needed that someone and I had found that someone.

I had found… you.

I love you. You know that right? Love was the day I first saw you. Love was the day I noticed you had a dark side to you and you were just as lost on that murky path as I. Love was the day you actually held me in your arms and smiled at me. Love was from the day I met you, until now and that love will continue to grow stronger as more years pass us.

Now it's not love anymore. Now it's in love. You are always right there for me. You are always the one to dry my tears and partake in my emotional moments. You are the one I want to keep in my life forever. I don't think I could miss a day without you beside me. I'm so fearful that if you left me, I would lose track of my golden path that I had just found and this time perish on the dark road.

I know now though that I would never lose you. I can feel your strong love for me in your kiss, in your arms where you hold me so tight that I don't think you want to let me go, when you look at me that tells me you want me, the emotions of passion I hear when you whisper to me at night. I know I would never lose you because I know you love me just as much as I love you. I know we'll never be apart.

I look forward to the day when I'm out of my teenage body and into my adult years. When I'm married to you and creating an entire family with you. I look forward to the years when we could wake up every morning and watch as our children develop. I look forward to the day when our kids leave the house to ourselves and we could spend the rest of our shortened lives together. I look forward to the day when one of us dies and we quickly follow each other. I smile as I think about the plans that fate may have in store for us in the future.

Why do I smile? It's because of you. Everything's because of you. I laugh, I smile, I know to live life to its fullest, and it's all you. You're the one that picked me from the dark road and we led each other back to the golden path. There were times I fell and I'm sure there were times you found yourself stuck on the murky road as well, but when we have each other, we get right back to where we left off. I know that even now as I have you beside me, I will fall back onto that black road, but I also know you'll bring me back up and we'll face the danger ahead of us courageously.

This courage came from you. This will to continue to live is from you. The reason why I breathe right now is because of you. I'm not afraid to fall. I'm not afraid to cry. I'm not afraid to grieve. I'm not afraid of disasters that lie ahead.

And this is all because of you.