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One Heartbeat Away
I’m sure you don’t even remember what you said to me that day. I’m sure you don’t even remember what you were wearing. I’m sure you don’t remember what time it was when we met. I’m sure… to you… that day was just a Tuesday. But I… remember it all. You said ‘Good morning, I just moved from Zuzu City; I’ll be fixing up my grandfather’s old farm. My name is Sera.’ You we’re weaing denim overalls and mud-stained boots… one of your pockets was unzipped and I could still see the bus ticket sticking out… one of your shoelaces was uneven and you had this little leaf sticking out of your hair. It was eleven fifty four AM when you walked into my life on that warm spring morning. I… remember it all.
I have to wonder if you see me, leering from behind trees and following you from a distance. Would you see me as I watch you play with the forest sprites? Did you ever catch a glimpse of me out of the corner of your eye and stare, asking yourself if you were crazy? No, my love… you were never crazy. You were – and are – perfect. You will never know how much I worked for you… sacrificed for you… gave for you for this day. I see you working hard on your fields… tilling and sowing and plowing and watering… I see you sweat spring through winter for the love and respect of this town. I know what you’ve given us, and I could not be happier.
I love you… I love you! I love you more than life itself, I love you more than any material thing on this planet! I cherish the small chip of rainbow scale, not because of it’s value… it could be a worthless stone, and I would still sleep with it. I cherish it because it came from you. A bat wing, a piece of stone, hell even a bag of garbage given from you would be pure gold in my eyes. I love you… I love you so much I could never say it enough! I want to hold you, and kiss you, and squeeze you long into the night… I wouldn’t care if we never woke up; wouldn’t care if I died then and there… for I would die in the one place I would never want to leave. I love you… I love you!
I’ll scream it from the top of the mountain to the deepest depths of the earth! I’ll wade through the shores of hell, knee-deep in the dead until the inferno consumes my flesh to spend just a fleeting second with you. I love you. I love you! I write these words over and over again because I will never be able to say them enough! I could repeat these words every second, every minute and every hour of every day of ever week of every month of every year of creation and it would still not equal one millionth of the love I feel for you. I love you! So I find every moment I can to tell you
I don’t even regret what I had to do to get to this day. Do you see her? The ginger bint at the bottom of the sea? Or poor Abby’s… accident? Did you weep when Maru hung herself? We’re you as shocked as I pretended to be when Sebastian slipped in the rain, and bashed his head open on a rock? Did you feel anything when people around you started dying mysterious deaths? I didn’t… I felt nothing. Not even when I bashed my own sister’s head open with Clint’s hammer, and tossed her corpse into the sewer. The only thing I felt… was love. I love you! I love you more than I could possibly describe in words! I know that when you found this, you’d panic and run… it’s why I had to hide it. Why you could never know…
But that’s all over now. You and I… we’re one now. I remember our wedding day. I remember how you held me as I cried over my poor, beloved sister… how you held me long into the night and kissed me so tenderly… I still remember begging… pleading with you to make love to me… to tell my wanting lips a story… and I remember how you smiled as you obliged. I knew… I knew at that very moment that you loved me as fiercely as I loved you. My mask never pushed you away… despite everything I said to you, how rude I was to you… you persisted. So really… everything that’s happened? It’s your fault. I’m so glad you took responsibility.
I love you. I love you! I love you!! I can’t say it enough, but I’ll never stop trying! Just remember though… if your feelings for me ever change… I’d rather die then let someone else have you. It just means we’ll be together in the afterlife… after all, eternity is just one heartbeat away…
Yours forever and ever,
Haley❤️