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“You have to promise that you won’t fall in love with me.”
“You’re beautiful,” I finally said to her, and I think everyone in the whole auditorium, from the blue-haired ladies in front to my friends in the back row, knew that I actually meant it. I’d nailed that line for the very first time.
She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.
It wasn’t that long, and it certainly wasn’t the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips first touched, I knew the memory would last forever.
“I love her,” I said finally, and when I said it, his attention focused on me again. “I know you do,”
“I love you, Jamie,” I said to her. “You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.”
“I’m dying, Landon.”
“I love you, too,” she finally whispered.
Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins, but delights in the truth. It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Jamie was the truest essence of that very description.
“That,” I said, “is exactly how I feel about you.”
I don’t think I’d ever seen someone as beautiful.
“When I told you that I prayed for you,” she finally said to me, “what did you think I was talking about?”
That night I cried on my father’s shoulder for the first time in my life.
“Will you marry me?”
I was in love with her, so deeply in love that I didn’t care if she was sick. I didn’t care that we wouldn’t have long together. None of those things mattered to me. All I cared about was doing something that my heart had told me was the right thing to do.
In every way, a walk to remember.
It was, I remember, the most wonderful moment of my life.
I still love her, you see, and I’ve never removed my ring. In all these years I’ve never felt the desire to do so.
