I Miss You Epi

Her steps felt like an illusion. Could it truly have been real? I wasn't sure, but as I felt my chest burning, I knew that something was going on. I counted each step she took as they matched the thump of my heart. One. Two. Three. Four. Turn.

She looked back to me as I dropped to my knees and she slowly shook her head. I could see her running back to me, a smile on her face as she took me back into her arms. She didn't though. She rolled her eyes and dropped her bag. "Think about us on this, Robert."

I moved my hand back to my side and nodded, trying to hold back my tears as much as possible. "What about us though, Cassidy?" I replied. "Will there ever be an us again, or is this forever?"

She knelt down and started to look through her bag like she always did when there was something important she didn't want to forget about. "Just wait, Robert. Being away isn't always the best, but someday, you'll thank me for this. I don't know if there will be an us to come back to, but the memories we shared won't be forgotten. Not like the others."

I tried to smile, knowing how often she wanted to forget about all the men she had walked away from. "But another move, Cassidy? Can't we find another solution?"

Cassidy pulled a locket from her bag and took in a deep breath. She slowly walked back to me and set the locket in my hand. "It's the one thing I can't live without, so take good care of it. I need something to come back to, okay?" She was choking through the words, but I nodded anyway before I looked over her locket.

It was gold with a heart on it. The heart was complete, but cracks were all over it, covering the beautiful locket with the only imperfection that could ever be acceptable. "I'll protect it with my life, Cassidy."

She smiled then walked back to her bag, leaving me on the sidewalk, lost and alone as she left my home and my life. "I'll email you!" I yelled out right before she was too far away to understand what I was saying.

I thought my words were useless until I heard my phone beep, telling me that I had received a text message. I smiled softly as I read the words, "I'll reply," sent from Cassidy's phone.

A few minutes later, I finally got up and walked to the store to buy a web cam. I got the most expensive one they sold, and it was worth every dime. Nothing was going to keep me from doing all I could for things to work out. My love wasn't going to just slip away from me, not when I had ways to keep her.

That night, the only message I got was a text saying, "I miss you."