Forever
By Mandy
She smiled at the image of the two people before her. How long it had been since she had felt those lips touch her own, since those strong able arms had held her. She needed him so much. She almost hadn't been able to continue her life after he had gone.Everything had seemed wrong, as if something were missing from everything. Food had lost all taste, evrything she had enjoyed while he was with her now seemed unworthwhile. She had lost interest in evrything. People had worried, fussed over her.She had even been hospitalized a few times. Nothing had helped. It had been useless to even try to explain to anyone hwat she had gone through. They all assumed that after a while she would return to normal, but she knew that when he left, she had gone with him. She did resume her old schedule, but it was just a facade. Nothing was real. What was left behind, what everyone saw was just a shell, leftover from her life with him. The days passed quickly, months turned into years. She'd even resumed an old relationship. The wedding had been the worst day of her life ,but it had been worth it to be able to keep up her playacting. She did love her children, but only because they favored him so much. She could easily pretend that they were actually his. She spent days watching them play and imagining that he was next to her, his arm around her shoulders, whispering in her ear that he loved her.All of her friendships faded to the background as the life she imagined became more and more reality to her. Her husband worried when she insited he work instead of joining them for a picnic, or at a school function.With him there, she couldn't pretend.Two decades had passed since she had looked into his eyes.It had been such a short period of time, and such a long one.She ran a finger over the figure on the paper. There was no nostalgia, she didn't miss him. He was with her. He always had been, and she knew he would be forever.
Ricardo Torres looked out the window at his wife. He knew she had been going through old boxes in the garage, and had found something. Something she had been staring at for the past half hour.He worried about her so much, even more lately. The kids had both moved out recently, but he could tell that was not it. She had been like this for many years.About twenty, he thought to himself. She had taken Antonio's death so much harder than anyone else. He still wondered why sometimes.
THE END
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