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March 13 - March 15, 2025
“I want to bring you with me because you scare my ghosts away, Darby.”
I squeeze her hand four times. I’ll. Keep. You. Safe. We jump together, free-falling into the abyss.
“Don’t ever hide your smiles from me, honeysuckle. I need to see every single one, especially the ones I put there.”
“Why are boys pissing you off today?” She snorts. “The audacity.” “The audacity to do what?” Elena looks over at me, lowering her large black sunglasses so I can see her caramel-colored eyes. “Just the audacity. The general audacity to fucking exist and believe they deserve to breathe the same air as me.”
“Leo,” she breathes. “Stop looking at me like that.” “Looking at you like what, honeysuckle?” “Like you know exactly what my soul feels like, and you’ve been incomplete without it all this time.”
“For what it’s worth, I really did love you,” I whisper. “My word is worthless…but I loved you too.”
“You’d wait a whole year just for me to come back?” “I think I might wait my whole life for you to come back, Darby. Something tells me there would be no point in trying to move on from this because I’d end up searching for you in every place I go. In every person I meet. Aimlessly wandering until I find you again.”
She stares out over the horizon, admiring the sky. I stare at her, because I wasn’t lying when I said she was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
“It’s really beautiful,” I respond, knowing I’m staring at her, that I haven’t taken a single second to take in the scenery around me because she’s all I see anyway.
“You don’t need a piece of my soul, honeysuckle. You already own the whole goddamn thing.”
“Stop looking at me like that,” he whispers. “Like what?” “Like I own all the pieces of your soul. Like you’ve been incomplete all this time without them.”
Darby. My honeysuckle. My first love. My only love.
“You’re my ‘it for me’ person. You were my first love. Then, the one who got away. Now, you’re my ‘it was always you.’ And it doesn’t matter what happened in between, because you’re gonna be my forever person too.” He cups my face, bringing his mouth to mine. “You’re my once-in-a-lifetime kind of love, Darby.”
“I’ll write you a love letter every day for the rest of my life if you just come home, honeysuckle. Stay with me.”
