Chapter 1
The wind hits my face and I breathe in the purest air I’ve ever had the opportunity to feel. But where were my wings? I swore I could fly quickly through the sky.
If I had known from the start that it was all a lie. I knew that no one could actually fly, but I never cared. People around me told me to stick my feet to the ground. But I couldn’t, I wasn’t like them.
But I looked at you, as if only the two of us existed in the world, and I thought that the things you told me were true. I daydreamed about the promises you swore to keep. Maybe I deserve what happened for trusting you.
But you promised that if I believed enough I could fly, why couldn’t I? Maybe in another life we could still be together, you’d be holding my hand and saying everything would be just fine, we were together. Sometimes I wonder if I didn’t believe it enough. And yet, I believed that your hands protected me from the fall, did you ever consider reaching out your hand? Sometimes I still wonder.
The air hits my face and I can barely see what’s around me, I knew this would be the death of me. I always imagined what could happen after death, but I never really understood.
In a second the floor will take me home, just like it took you away from me. I think about the moments we didn’t get to spend, the dinners we didn’t make, the hours where we would just lay in the grass to watch the stars. The only thing I can think about is you, it’s like something is growing inside of me, that I don’t recognize. I’m not the same person you knew, but, neither are you. And with that thought I stare at the floor with happiness. Knowing that we would relearn how to live again.
Suddenly, I feel an inexplicable peace coursing through my veins like the wind. I close my eyes so tightly and cry so hard as you hold me. I can’t breathe, but I don’t have to. You lift me up, and I’m safe. Just looking in your direction makes me feel more alive than ever. I know that you will keep your promises with your own heart, like you kept mine. And for the first time, I fly with you by my side.
