I always told my wife that our love story was one for the big screen. I used to go on and on about how we would make it to the Oscar's. The Disney Princesses would be jealous of her and all the famous actress would fight to play her in the Broadway production. She used to laugh and tell me to get my head out of the clouds. Our story was too messy for the movies. No one wants to pay to hear about it. She told me that all the time.
I see it playing in my head. It would start with a black and white picture of two little kids running around the yard and Brad Pitt would be talking in the background. "I meet the love of my life when I was just ten years old. Her brother was my best friend. She was having a tea party in the grass and my basketball hit her in the head. When I went over to get it, she just throws it back at me as hard as she could. That was the first time that I saw her smile. I just might have been smitten over her, but girl's still had cooties back then." Her smile. That was enough to melt my heart, even then. From there it was a very pathetic story. I sat on the sidelines of her life, watching her grow up, and picking on her just like her brother. I was so worried about looking cool, I let eight years go by before I made my move.
I waited until she was at her lowest point and I was at my lowest point. I told her I liked her and in a blink of an eye we were leaving a note on the kitchen table and running away. If only I could say that love made that happen. We lived in a car, we worked dead in jobs. We started a band because the music was our tightest connection. We worked so hard. Maybe that was why the success was so great. The number one songs, the awards.
They were far from the best things that ever happened to us though. No, we had eight beautiful blessings that still hold the top spot in my heart. We had a good life. We had the house, the kids. Those beautiful kids turned out to be amazing adults.
I thought that was the greatest love song of all times. I thought we had it all. Then the accident. I still feel the pain. I can still see the light in the corner of my eyes. I never thought I would have to say goodbye. Not that they heard my goodbye. No, I am here and they can't see it. I am just a ghost looking in on their lives. I reach out to touch them and they can't feel me. I just watch them. I watch them live out the best love story I have ever seen. This is their love story…