Somewhere below the gathering crowd screams our names, a sound as sweet as a sugary biscuit,
but my eyes stayed locked on a girl perpendicular to the onslaught of memories front and center
of what I guess was a few hundred people. She shudders in a deep breath as I mumble her name in a
somewhat breathless encounter. The flashing lights that sparks along to the rhythm of my guitar,
momentarily blinds my twenty-twenty vision as I try my best to focus on every visible detail
I could muster in her barely- there silhouette. Her face hidden in the shadows, but somehow I
knew it was her and not my mind playing cruel tricks on me. Or is it?
“Maddie?” It had to be her. The woman’s features were shadowed in the silhouette of her own profile, but then she turned and the same eyes I have dreamed about for years, burned into mine. Leaving a crater of a hole in my already unfixed heart .The color of emeralds burned me like it was the sun. Impossible to look at and impossible to ignore. Everyday it rises, giving hope to all the yesterdays. On that exact moment I forgot the words
to the next song, the song I wrote years ago for a young girl who stole my heart and still has it.
Every piece of it. My fingers runs through the opening chords of her song. The rest of the band
follows. For a moment I tune out the small crowd and focus on the one thing that left my heart
beating and my lungs expanding with every breathe that kept me alive for all these years. Our last
show on our world tour ended last night, but this impromptu show happened last minute in a
crowded bar mid-town of Sydney, Australia, my home town. The words roll from my lips, just as
easy as the very first time. Even better now that I know she is here. Just like all the times before.
Oh, how I wish it was true. Deep down, locked in a save place within the memories of my past I
knew it will never, ever be true. Not even in my deepest, darkest and most colorful dreams…
Have I ever pictured life without you?
I hope I never have to.
But one look into your eyes
I knew I had to fight to never say goodbye.
People said we were too young,
To truly find the one you love,
But then life took you.
Tossed you away when there was so much left to do
So much lefts to say.
She backs away, slowly at first then all at once. I close my eyes and picture her smile, her emerald
green eyes, only a memory of her. She has to know, this song is for her, always and forever, maybe
she won’t believe it, but I do. Every word, every melody and every heartbeat was only ever for her. But what about all the promises I have made? Promises I will forever keep and never be able to
complete. Not just to her, but to the one we never could have called ours…
The music continues as the words fade into the night. As the last chord fell from my fingers and
the last of the words in my voice dies out, before there was complete silence. She fades completely out of my vision. The lump in my throat confirmed that it was only a fragment of my
imagination, a simple memory of the past. A memory of her and what could have been. It had to
be all in my head, that’s what I keep telling myself, just like all the times before, because it can’t
be her. She died in my arms…
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Authors Note: Hi there, friends! Thank you so much for reading the intro to my very first book! Please stick around for the next chapter as the past enfolds and truth to be revealed.
With Love,
Hannah
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