26|Letters & feelings

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𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑜𝓃 𝐼'𝓂 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝐼 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝑒. 𝐼 𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒾 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝓎 𝓅𝓊𝓇𝑒, 𝓊𝓃𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉. 𝒜𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓉, 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁, 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔.

𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓃𝓀 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑔𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝐼'𝓁𝓁 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔,

𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝒵𝑜𝓇𝒶

(𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑜𝓍 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓉.)

They were hers. She was giving me a glimpse into her mind. It felt too private, which is exactly what she'd anticipated I'd think. But really, who wouldn't? It was too intrusive and I knew she'd given me permission, but it didn't change that.

As if my touch would break it, I grabbed one of them gently and unsurely, then traced my fingers along its edges, faltering halfway through opening it. Putting it down, I looked for the little box she'd mentioned instead and found it promptly.

Inside it laid a necklace, a resin daisy one. A little note fell out as I opened the box.

𝐼 𝓌𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝒶𝒸𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝒶𝒾𝓈𝓎 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓇𝓋𝑒, 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊, 𝓈𝑜 𝐼 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓀𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒?

My eyes fixated on the daisy, I stared at it for so long my vision went blurry. It wasn't heavy, its weight barely noticeable in my hand, but it felt like I was carrying the most significant thing in the universe. Like the sun was centered in this daisy, its light spreading out of the petals and leaking into the vastness surrounding me.

She'd kept it. This daisy I'd walked past one day, collected, and given to her, thinking she'd keep it for maybe a day and then toss it. Rather, she'd gone out of her way to make sure she could keep it for as long as she wanted.

A teardrop splashed on the necklace. I wiped my eyes and moved my hair out of the way so I could put it on. The clasp clicked into place. I looked down at it around my neck, a smile slipping through the tears. I never wanted to take it off.

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