The Other Side of the Moon

I Don't Want to Miss You

Song: I Don't Want to Miss You (Like I Do) by Austin Weber

"I don't want to miss you like I do," Cinder whispered, her hand pressed up against her port screen as if she could touch Kai's face through the glass and thousands of miles. "I guess there was just some part of me that though by this point I'd be through."

Kai laughed, the sound somewhat tinny through the port, but no less beautiful. She wished that he was laying beside her in her massive bed and that they were laying side by side, grinning at one another with only the light of the stars to gleam upon them. Or better yet, she longed to be upon the earth, the place she still thought of as home.

"To the other side of love?" Kai asked, blinking slowly as a somber look overcame his features. "Where it's not just you I'm thinking of?"

"Yeah," Cinder breathed, her head beginning to pound. "Something like that."

"The last thing I'll do is forget you," Kai said, giving her a sad smile through the port. He was still sitting at his desk despite the lateness of the hour, but his work had long since been forgotten as they spoke to one another.

Cinder let out a weak chuckle. "But missing you isn't that much better," she sighed. "I wish I could find an attitude to keep myself from missing you. It's not quite brokenhearted or blue—it's a special kind of woe."

"Ah," Kai grinned, leaning his head toward his camera until all Cinder could see was black hair. Then he fell back against his chair once more, biting his lip. "My melancholy heart feels the same."

"You don't want to miss me either?"

"Not for another moment," Kai muttered, rubbing a hand over his sleepy eyes.

"You won't stop, will you?"

Kai gave her a look—one that silenced all concerns of him ever forgetting her. It was a look that one only gave a person they truly loved.

"Never."