#Heart (Hashtag #6)

by Cambria Hebert

“A lot of people say you stole my heart. You managed somehow to get the heart of a player who would never settle down. But that’s not the truth. The truth is you never had to steal my heart, baby, because I gave it to you. I’d give you anything you ask for, but you ask for nothing. You, with your gentle touch and fierce love of animals. I promise to love you even when you drag home fifty cats and fifty dogs because you couldn’t bear to leave them at the shelter for one more day. I promise to love you even when your hair tries to eat my hand and when my car cries because you’re a terrible driver. I never knew I needed you, Rim, until I saw you that night, soaking wet from the rain, sitting on the floor of the shelter, with a one-eyed cat in your lap. But I do need you. I need you so fucking much. I don’t know how or why you let me in, but thank you. Thank you for making me the luckiest bastard on the face of this earth. I’ll never take you for granted. I’ll love you long after I’m gone. I vow to you here and now, in front of all these strangers…” She laughed. Then she sniffled and a few tears slid behind her glasses. “We’re a team now, and as long as I’m breathing, you’ll never be alone in life, not ever.”