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The sun was beating in the window from where the curtain parted. Knocking on the front door was heard throughout the house. However, Alfred Jones was getting ready for the day that was before him. Having gotten up earlier to bathe, after all, it was Sunday. Alfred decided to not answer the door knowing full well who was at the door. Alfred had just finished buttoning up his white shirt when he heard the door open and something moves towards the kitchen not even bother to bothering to say hello. After Alfred finish getting dressed for the day with a coat to match his white shirt he went to the kitchen. It was Sunday so I offered was dressed up in his usual Sunday outfit white button-up shirt and his best pencil wrong with a little jacket. Once you got into the kitchen he saw a girl with her hair pulled up in a ponytail but her light ash brown hair still fell to the small of her back. She was wearing her Sunday Best which was a white dress that had a small that had small blue and red flowers that were placed randomly on it. She turned around to see you for it and started to speak at the time of her to hear her words as he got lost in her eyes. Her sunny skin helps them pop out of her head as though they were the ocean upon the sand.
"Alfred, are you listening to me?" she yelled at him. At this, he dumps lately surprised that her words.
"Yes, of course, I did you think I would just stand here and not listening" Alfred answered her trying to seem like you were talking to her the entire time.
"Oh yeah then tell me what did I just ask you?" She asked him as though he could not tell her and she knew. She had a smug little smile on my face telling him that he would have been caught in his own little lie.
"You were asking me what I wanted for breakfast" he answered trying to prove her wrong. Her smile widened at this hadn't he knew that he was in trouble.
"Actually, I hadn't asked you anything" she answered she knew she had caught him what well and she was going to rub it in his face all morning.
"I'm going to make eggs bacon and the usual for Sunday breakfast then we're heading off to church as usual so go wipe your face off" She answered I'm just telling him that he was going to be one hell of trouble. Today was like every other Sunday the only difference of today was that Alfred would be leaving for a while to join the war that was happening soon. He was joining the revolution against Britain against his big brother. She knew this well, Alfred had told her about him and his brother. About what they were and who they were this didn't stop her from loving him and no I didn't stop him from loving her. It been so long since either one of them had been so happy. She had talked to him on long hours hoping there would be some other way around this he wouldn't have to fight his brother. As much as it tore up Alfred to fight his own brother I told her just as much. Knowing that if she had known sooner that she had told the people to hold on and that the British were okay she had and still have that mad at Soldier of the British army that maybe he wouldn't have to go. She didn't want to she didn't want him to she wanted him to come back to her alive but if that were to happen then that means that he beat his brother which would hurt him more then if he died. So she was very confused on what she wanted him to do she wanted him to protect what he believed in but she also wanted him to be happy and fighting his brother was not the answer but it was too late now. The damage had been done and she knew it so she put on a brave face and made breakfast and wipe your tears away she had just gotten ready yet and already so many letters to him that you're going to send it and then she's going to send more of the days that come so that he would have multiple letters coming in at once. she didn't want him to think that she had forgotten about him or what he meant to her. there she knows this was the end, she knew that she would never be able to stay with him as long as he would be alive. And she knew that it would hurt him when she died but she cannot help but want to be selfish just this once and be by his side for the rest of Eternity or at least for the rest of her life. She would wait for him to come home and she would fight the good fight at home. she knew that she would send food even though we're probably get eaten instead of getting to him. however, she knew that before he came back she would most likely be dead. She had waited so long to tell him that she couldn't tell him now that now that he's leaving. This thing is is that she was dying she had some type of sickness that was killing her she found out from the doctor a few months ago and can't seem to tell him.  she hopes that he would have been surely understanding even if it was only a letter or two that told him
"Liz Elizabeth how many times do I have to tell you to how many times do I have to tell you to stop daydreaming at this rate you're going to end up walking around and getting lost," Alfred told her being sounded worried he always was when it came to her.
"Alfred you know I'm fine cheese if you were any more word about me I would think that you were my father or my mother to be a bat you know they hardly let cook for you let alone let me come to your house if we were even any later than they are now they will probably try to kill you force you to marry me so in my book that wouldn't be too bad" she said the last part in a quiet manner hoping that he didn't hear. Hello is she probably she probably could because he started to laugh afterward. He always was worried for her when he first moved into this town they have this hell that went up that you could see a beautiful sunset the day that he came they had to take him out there to show him the sunset, after all, it's what they had the most beautiful thing in the world. he still remembers it quite well he remembers the girl that came running up to him yelling hey are you new here come with me we're going to be late if you don't run. he's so remember the other when flooded through his hair as he ran next to her after she had grabbed his hand he remembered how fast her hair was beating against her back as her steps hit the ground how hard it was to climb that mountain and how hard he was breathing after he had made it to the top you still remember that something of his heart as he watches the sunset and how amazing it was it was nothing like you never seen it before. So it was just a Sunset and he'd seen one before it simple this one was different he looked over towards the girl that had dragged him over there she was beating she was breathing hard as well and she turned and looked at him and smiled and said I'm glad that you're here this place is way too boring without too many people if you weren't here then I would have to come up here by myself I hope you don't mind if I drag you up here a few more times at this he remembered how amazing her eyes were against the yellow and pink and orange light has bounced off her skin looking as though she was glowing she looked as though she was an angel at the mall and even now even to those years after that after that time he could still see her and you could still see when she would glow with that same radiance but I will never truly be the same as when you first see it when he first saw it. At that moment in time, he realized how deeply in love he was with her how such a small gesture can win his heart and just a few moments. How we he was too high compared to everyone else in the world. How he could be lost in this world. And yet he wanted to soak in that great against he wanted to stay by her side wanted to help her with everything that she ever wanted to when he wanted her more than anything else but he would never take her. She was an angel somebody of beauty and Radiance that should never have been touched and he wasn't going to try a protected her from physical evils and she protected him from the mentally ill.  they had kept this unspoken agreement between the two of them for years and years they both now and they both didn't. Neither one of them would ever say anything about the others it was never right. after they had set out for church many of the people stopped and said hello and said goodbye to a friend knowing that he would be leaving many people said by many people walked on past knowing how hard it was to say goodbye. when they got to the church when they sat down in the back they held each others hands didn't say anything about it. They both needed it to help calm their nerves from exploding and screaming at each other through them not to leave. However they both knew that there was no choice in the matter of him leaving. At the end of the church the priest said a few words honoring the men that we are leaving both Elizabeth and Alfred got up and walked out silently with everybody else and walk down back to his house so he could change into the horseback riding clothes. Then he ran he went and got on his horse and he headed off to the Northeast where they would be the signing up of the men of the Military enrollment. She stood there and watched him right away she didn't she didn't say good-bye no urgency in fear that it would be their last so so she stood there  so she stood there watching. before he would make it back she would die if she knew this quite well and so she left one final letter before her death so he never opened it until a few years later you cannot bring himself to do it until the end when he did it was because of the forcing of his 'friends' more like government officials.

she died on April 2, 1774.

That's all, for now, this might be edited to make more sense later but I'm tired of writing.

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