Love Within The Pages -Short Story

Love From Within The Pages.

"So I guess this is it, isn't it? There are no more chapters, right? You said we were getting close and that was a while ago." 

I stared up at the sky, it was the same sky there had always been, except for some rain clouds that hadn't been there a few minuets ago. It was't raining, but they were still floating up there, gray and dismal.

You began to ask me something.

"Don't ask me how I know, I just do. Things just feel really final right now, like the downward slope is beginning to level out. Eventually... we'll hit the back cover, right?"

I sat down on a bench. Had that been there a few minuets ago? It was hard to tell.

"Did you say yes? I think I heard you. Your voice keeps getting harder to hear."

Thunder rumbled, but oddly enough it wasn't like the thunder I was used to. It sounded like you, it sounded sad. From one of the clouds, a single drop of rain fell on the grainy wood of the bench."

"... Your crying, aren't you? I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. I wish I could change this. I wish I could reach where you are." 

Thunder rolled again, and behind it was a voice. Your voice.

"Me? I'll be fine, I think. I don't know if this has ever happened before. I don't really know what happens when you... close the book"

You ask me if I'm afraid.

And oddly I'm not.

"No actually. Because... Whatever happens to me when you close the cover. You can always open the book up again, right?" That's when the answer hits me, realization jolting me to stand again. " That's it isn't it? You can open it back up. The words won't change, but I'll still be here. You can meet me all over again, and I can meet you, and everything we have will come back."

It's raining now, and the clouds have merged together, and in them, for the first time... I see you.

Your'e crying, but its quiet besides soft taps, and maybe that was the sound of your tears hitting the paper of my books pages.

I realize we don't have a lot time.

"Listen, before its all over. I want you to know that everything, all of this... Even being over, it was worth it. It was worth to meet you, to get to know you. Even if when you close that cover an I disappear, it was all worth it. I love you."

You love me to, I know it. I can feel it, just like for a moment I can feel what it would be like to hold your hand.

There is a very long pause, and I realized your prolonging what has to happen.

"You can do it"

For the first time, you have to be the hero. You have to close the book so we can keep going. I believe in you.

The sky gets darker, painstakingly slow, but then it gets light again and you face still up among the clouds. You open your mouth and for the first time I hear you, not just feel what your saying or understand you in my own head, your voice comes through the pages of your world into the reality of mine, and it vibrates in my ears. I can hear every little thing, down to the hitch from you crying.

"I'll never forget you," you say. "I'll come back soon."

And yet you never did.

THE END