How dreadful is the name. That lonely name. The fear of waking alone. The fear of losing all you've every known. That feeling you get when not near someone you love. Is the feeling I get when I'm with out you my love.
I was sing at the top of my lungs. I felt like I was on top of the clouds. I had this feeling that I couldn't put my finger on, but it was a good feeling. A great feeling.
I walked to my room plopping down on the bed. I grabbed my ukulele and u journal. My journal was filled with songs I had wrote, stories, random things that popped in my head. It was like I through my thoughts on a piece of paper.
I began to sing the song from earlier again. I had wrote it after I got home from my date. It was really awful but couldn't put my feelings down on the paper quit right. It's like my feelings can not simply be held on a single sheet of paper.
Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring.
My phone began to buzz. I quickly put down my ukulele and picked up my phone.
Unknown Caller
I shrugged and answered it.
"Hello my dear!"
"Aron?"
"The one and only."
"How did you get my number?"
"Would you like to go on a second date with me?"
"Aron! How did you get my number?"
"Irrelevant. Second date? Pleeeeeeease?"
"Sure, when?"
"I will be over to pick you up at 8!"
"Today?"
"Yup!"
"Great. I just love last minute things."
"I can tell by the sarcasm in your voice."
"Anytime hon."
"You are a stranger girl Charlotte."
"Goodbye Aron."
"Goodbye beautiful."
And then he hung up. I closed the phone and flopped back on my bed. Sprawled out. An evident smile forever growing on my face.
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I was ready to go an hour early. I had once again curled my hair. Wearing dark jeans and a grey tee, with a red flannel for a jacket.
I walked over to the couch and sat down, flipping through the channels. I stopped on Supernatural and kicked my feet up. I looked a my phone.
7:45
I became to antsy to sit and watch tv so I got up and went to play my ukulele. One again i looked at my phone.
7:56
I put my ukulele away and sat on the stairs by the door. The house was silent and empty. The same eerie feeling it always had. It made me sad to think about me being all alone in this big house.
8:06
I waited.
8:20
I waited.
8:37
As soon as I was about head up to my room the door bell rang. I opened it. I was a little bitter sweet about who was outside. After all, he was 40 minutes late.
He quickly hugged me, taking me off guard.
"I am so sorry. My truck wouldn't start and I got stuck in traffic. I am so sorry I'm late.", he rushed out. He was still hugging me. And to be honest, I was sad when he stopped.
"It's fine. Let's just go."
"Yes ma'am."
We walked out side. He had an old pickup truck that was rusted and looked like it uses to be blue. The back had a bed in it that was covered with pillows and blankets.
"What's this? Where are we going?", I asked confused about ally he stuff in the back.
"You ask a lot of questions don't you."
"Yup!"
"Just get in. You'll see when we get there.", he said opening the door for me.
"Fine. But it better be good."
"Oh trust me it will be."
We were driving on a dirt road when a clearing came into view. Even in the darkness I could still see the splashes of colour from the flowers in the field. The sky was wide open and the stars shone bright.
"It's breathe taking.", I said.
"I'm so romantic aren't I?", Aron replied wiggling his eyebrows.
I hit him on the arms and opened the door. We walked around to the other side of the truck. I looked at the blankets once more. Then I relived what they were for.
Aron reached his hand out for mine. "My I?",he asked.
"Thank you!", I said as he helped lift me into the trucks bed. He jumped in after me and fixed some of the pillows around, handing me a blanket. We watched the stars for awhile and tried to find the constellation. Aron was a huge fan of astronomy and found a ridiculous amount of constellations, while I only managed to find the Little Dipper.
"Oh look! It's starting!", he squealed excitedly.
I sent him a questioning look but turned my gaze back to the night sky. A shooting star shot across the sky. Then another. And another. And another. Then there were dozens stretching across the dark canvas. A meteor shower. He took me to see a meteor shower.
"Wow!", I said in awe.
"Cool, right?", he asked pleased with himself.
"It's amazing."
He jumped out of the back and ran to the drives side door. He grabbed something than came back out. It was a telescope.
"Come here!", he said. He looked like a little kid on Christmas. It was adorable.
We watched he stars again, this time, through a telescope. He taught me the constellations and how to find them. The names of the stars. Which ones were planets.
Then my phone ran, bring me out of the stars and back to earth. I grabbed my phone and answered it.
I froze. The hairs on my neck stood on end. The person on the other end was calling my name, trying to grab my attention. But I could talk. I couldn't move.
"Charlotte?", Aron asked. Finally snapping me out of it.
"I'm on my way.", I said ending the call. "We have to go."
"What's wrong?", Aron asked looking at me.
"We have to go now!"
"Why?"
"Aron! Please?", I pleaded. Tears welled up in my eyes threatening to fall.
"Get in.", he replied tuning to the drives side. I got in the car and we drove off.
"Where to?"
"The hospital."
"Ok. Now what's going on?"
"Do you remember when we went on our first date?"
"Yea. It was only the other night."
"Do you remember Kara being at my house?"
"Yea..."
"Well how did she get home?"
"Well where did she go?"
"I don't know! She didn't go back to the hospital!Why didn't she go back to the hospital?", I sobbed.
"Hey it's gonna be ok.", Aron tried to comfort me.
When we arrived at the hospital, I saw an ambulance wheeling someone inside. And I just knew who it was. I ran to the front door. I saw her, lying in that gurney. She looked like she was sleeping. But I knew that wasn't a good thing.
"Kara.", I whispered.
I ran over to the people wheeling her away.
"What's wrong with her?"
"Ma'am you need to step back and let us do our job.", one of the docter a said.
"She's flat lining!", another yelled.
It was at that moment that I broke. I was sobbing and having trouble breathing. Aron ran up beside me and roped his arms around me. I tried following Kara but the nurse wouldn't let me.
"No! I want to go with her! Let me go!", I screamed. Aron held me back as I watched Kara get farther and farther down a hall. "No!"
"Shhh. It's gonna be ok Charlotte. Calm down.", Aron soothed.
"No.", I was now at a whisper. I'd dropped to my knees, kneeling on the floor. Aron held me to his chest, trying to calm me. We sat there on the floor of the hospital. I was a sobbing mess and Aron didn't know what to do. He tried to comfort me, but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't.
"No."