A Love Story with a Little Heartbreak

A Love Story with a Little Heartbreak Page 29

by Thomas John Dunker

………………...…….she was alone………so quiet…………... …..……………………………………………………………..

  …………………she wiggled her fingers on one hand………… …………then the other…………………………………………

  the nothingness was gone. …it had faded away……………….. .……….………….. gone……………………………………….

  …………she had looked into his eyes………………….……… ………………………….…she knew him…………….……….

  ……they talked…. or something…………………she heard his words…………………………………………………………...

  she wanted to hear more……….but so tired…………………... …………………….so tired……..tired……………………...…

  ……………….……she couldn’t move for some reason…….... ………there must be a reason………………………………..…

  she knew she was in a bed…………in a hospital……………… …………………………………………………..………………

  ………………………..and then she knew why………………..

  …..a tear formed in her eye and made a run for it……….……..

  ………………………………….it was for Carl………………..

  ………………………………………she knew he was gone….. ….another tear.......it slid down her cheek……………………...

  ……….on the same path as the last one……….she felt that…..

  ……………………………………………..……………………

  …as she remembered….he was looking at her as they………... as they…………………………………………….………...…..

  …………….what?.........as they……flew……….…………...…

  ……………as they flew together……toward death…………... ………..death…………………...……she could see him at that final moment………………………………………….…..….…

  …………………….he was looking at her……….…….……… ………………Carl…………………………………….……….

  …………………………..she was alive………………….oh.… …………God…oh God………………………………….….….

  Carl is gone……………….……dear God…………………….. God…no…no…………no…………………………….…….….

  ………………..my baby!..................my baby!........................... ……what about…….my baby?...................................................

  ………another tear…………………………………….and…… another…………………………………………………………..

  ……no answer……………….and then a new nothingness……

  …….a different nothingness…………………………………… ………..softer………warm……the terror was gone……….…..

  …..this was the nothingness that sleep brings……………….…

  ……………………she embraced it….she didn’t want………... ……………………………….………………………………….

  …..she didn’t want to remember……...….didn’t…..want to…..

  ……..remember…………………………………………..……

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