patient
as told by everest
I've never cried as much as I did that night. I was sobbing so hard that my mom found me and made me sleep in her bed, which is pretty embarrassing considering I was fifteen and I still continued to cry until my dad got so fed up that he went to sleep on the couch.
I felt like someone was pressing bricks into my shoulder blades. I felt like someone was trying to rip all my ribs out individually. Sometimes I still get that feeling.
I just wish you would have called me. I wish you would have written me a letter, or video chatted with me, or at least had your grandmother check in with me so I knew you were alright. Oblivion is so painful, Charlotte, and sometimes there were short moments where I hated you because of how much you were hurting me with that silence. That anger never lasted long, though. I could never stay mad at you, no matter how hard you tried.
I just had to be patient, I suppose, no matter how hard it was.
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Laughter Lines
Romance"Cross my heart and hope to die, I'll see you with your laughter lines." a boy. a girl. you know the rest. © Valarie Rae, two thousand and fifteen.
