Alone with You

by Aly Martinez

“Hey, True,” she called just before I crossed the street. “Just so you know, I would have sat in that house with you for the rest of my life, completely alone, just to be with you.”

When I slid that ring on your finger at eighteen, that was it for me. You have always been it for me.”

“I need you to know that I love you. In the past. In the present. And for my entire future. I will carry you with me. Every breath I take will be for you. Every time my heart beats, it will be for you. And every smile that your mother and crazy little brother put on my face will be for you. But they need me now, baby. And I need to be there for them, the way I can’t be there for you.” A guttural cry sliced through me, and I hung my head. “Just…please know that I love you. I love you. I love you so much, Kaitlyn.”