Neighbor Dearest

by Penelope Ward

“Yes. You’re not the kind of girl a guy takes home for a quick fuck. You’re the girl he keeps.”

“You’re my fucking unicorn, Chelsea.”

“You were never able to understand how he could do what he did to you, why things happened that way. I figured it out. You know why it didn’t work out with him?” “Why?” “Because God made you for me.”

“I had a thousand things memorized to say to you in this moment, but I can’t think of a single one. What you mean to me, Chelsea, defies language. It can’t be summed up in words or reduced to a minute recitation. Just know that I love you with all of my heart and soul and that it’s limitless. As long as my heart is beating, it will only beat for you.”