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Dear, Best friend.
#WritcoStoryPrompt74
You are falling in love with your friend. What should you do? Write a story...
dear Shawn,
hey there bestfriend slash soulmate, you might be wondering why I'm writing this letter. well it's because I have a story to tell you, a long one actually. One I have to tell you before you travel half way around the world for college tomorrow.
you can't see me now, but I'm taking really deep breaths and telling myself to put my big girl shoes on.
so on with the story, half of it you already know.
my hair was in pigtails and I sat in the middle of a sandbox, creating my own world with sand all over my face and in my hair when I heard it, a sniffle.
it was from this other kid, one who looked so small and scared that my tiny heart broke alittle. I remember staring at him, I remember realizing that he was new there, you see I knew all the kids and they all loved me. not to brag but I was quite popular among the six year olds at kindergarten.
so I walked up to him, and I was confused at first because he was in the sand box, the home of all fun, and all he did was sit there and look like he had his puppy taken away
I remember how he didn't look up as I stood before him, how he also was lost in his own little world of loud sniffles and shaking shoulders.
I remember saying hi, with my signature wide grin on my face and I remember him finally looking up at me, eyes blown wide, I remember wondering at how red they were.
our conversation went something like this
" I'm tiana, but my friends call me tia. why do you look so sad kid?" he had pouted at me, upset eyes crinkling the more
"I'm not a kid! and my name is shawn" I had blinked at him before resting my hands on my hips and sighing, fixing him with a judging look.
" yes you are, I'm a kid too, there's nothing wrong with being a kid, we get to play here all day everyday, it's great! "
I had said with a wide grin. in my defense, I had really loved my sand box.
he had frowned up at me with his big doe eyes, full head of curly hair almost obscuring them before his lips started to wobble
"I don't want to play here! I want to go home to my mummy!" I tell you that kid had quite the temper.
"well kid you can't, mommies only show up here when it's not bright outside "
He had frowned deeply, titling his head to process my words before silent tears started to run down his face. I remember panicking, mum had cried the first time I broke an arm and I remember haven not liked it at all.
I had plopped down on the ground with him and grabbed his tiny chubby clean hands with my Sandy ones and he had looked up at me with teary red eyes, I had just grinned at him.
" don't cry kid okay? I'll hold your hand till your mommy comes back "
He had stared at me for a long time before nodding and holding on tighter,
and I had been holding on ever since.
through the first day of preschool, through high school.
through studying up late together, through the endless phone calls, through the football games, through holidays, through getting in trouble together, through sleepovers and nights filled with whispered hopes and dreams in a tree house that felt like our own personal safe space.
Through us doing life together.
i didnt just hold on, I watched him grow too, watched him become the extrovert out of us both, watched him find his passion, watched him go after it with all his heart like he did for me.
Through the crushes, through the first loves, through the heartaches, pain and dissapointment, we held on to each other, just like that day in the sandbox all those years ago.
He knows all my secrets and I know his, the only person who knows me better than I know myself.
That little boy became my soulmate in the best definition of the word, he was my person and I was his.
We protected each other, we were there for each other. we laughed together and cried together.
His smile became a reason for me to smile, I felt his pain as deeply as if it were my own, and for all those years, I loved him like he was the second half of my soul, and I know he did too.
Now we're highschool graduates, and life is taking us in two different directions, something it took me a while to accept, because I couldn't imagine my life without him, it feels like leaving a piece of myself behind.
Ever since i was a child, I knew what it was like to love another person in the sense that you want them to be happy, I spent half of my life till now loving him that way, in the purest of ways.
but loving and being in love are two different things for me, at least they were, till the first night of senior year, when he took me to our spot in the old abandoned tree house behind his house, looked me in the eye and told me
" nomatter where life takes us, you will always be my person tia, my soulmate, always and forever " he said, eyes sincere and my heart couldn't stop beating into my ears
because I knew what he meant, ofcourse I did. Shawn loved me like I loved him, but in that moment, with the butterflies in my stomach and the need to hold him and never let go,
I knew I was alittle bit inlove with him too. I was inlove with my soulmate.
It felt alot like loving him the way I already did, but it was so much more different, watching him with other girls before never bothered me but all of a sudden it was like I couldn't breathe.
and when he told me about every girlfriend, I wondered if he didn't know the way I looked at him, but then I realized I had been looking at him that way all my life.
what we had was beautiful, and I'd never do anything to hurt that, so I stayed by his side the only way I knew how, as his best friend, his person.
but life for the first time is taking him away from me now, and he's taking all of my heart with him, but we're us, and we transcend time and distance, we'll be fine and I know it, he's my person after all, we'll always do life together.
even if the definition of that changes over the years, I'll always love him in more ways than one.
so dear bestfriend, I love you, with all my heart, I'll always choose you, I'll always want the best of you, even if that's miles away from me now. you're the best part of me and you'll always have my heart.
and i might be in love with you, but I've loved you for much longer, and I'll probably love you forever.
you'll always be my person shawn, always and forever.
from your soulmate ,
Tiana.
© tonnaV
You are falling in love with your friend. What should you do? Write a story...
dear Shawn,
hey there bestfriend slash soulmate, you might be wondering why I'm writing this letter. well it's because I have a story to tell you, a long one actually. One I have to tell you before you travel half way around the world for college tomorrow.
you can't see me now, but I'm taking really deep breaths and telling myself to put my big girl shoes on.
so on with the story, half of it you already know.
my hair was in pigtails and I sat in the middle of a sandbox, creating my own world with sand all over my face and in my hair when I heard it, a sniffle.
it was from this other kid, one who looked so small and scared that my tiny heart broke alittle. I remember staring at him, I remember realizing that he was new there, you see I knew all the kids and they all loved me. not to brag but I was quite popular among the six year olds at kindergarten.
so I walked up to him, and I was confused at first because he was in the sand box, the home of all fun, and all he did was sit there and look like he had his puppy taken away
I remember how he didn't look up as I stood before him, how he also was lost in his own little world of loud sniffles and shaking shoulders.
I remember saying hi, with my signature wide grin on my face and I remember him finally looking up at me, eyes blown wide, I remember wondering at how red they were.
our conversation went something like this
" I'm tiana, but my friends call me tia. why do you look so sad kid?" he had pouted at me, upset eyes crinkling the more
"I'm not a kid! and my name is shawn" I had blinked at him before resting my hands on my hips and sighing, fixing him with a judging look.
" yes you are, I'm a kid too, there's nothing wrong with being a kid, we get to play here all day everyday, it's great! "
I had said with a wide grin. in my defense, I had really loved my sand box.
he had frowned up at me with his big doe eyes, full head of curly hair almost obscuring them before his lips started to wobble
"I don't want to play here! I want to go home to my mummy!" I tell you that kid had quite the temper.
"well kid you can't, mommies only show up here when it's not bright outside "
He had frowned deeply, titling his head to process my words before silent tears started to run down his face. I remember panicking, mum had cried the first time I broke an arm and I remember haven not liked it at all.
I had plopped down on the ground with him and grabbed his tiny chubby clean hands with my Sandy ones and he had looked up at me with teary red eyes, I had just grinned at him.
" don't cry kid okay? I'll hold your hand till your mommy comes back "
He had stared at me for a long time before nodding and holding on tighter,
and I had been holding on ever since.
through the first day of preschool, through high school.
through studying up late together, through the endless phone calls, through the football games, through holidays, through getting in trouble together, through sleepovers and nights filled with whispered hopes and dreams in a tree house that felt like our own personal safe space.
Through us doing life together.
i didnt just hold on, I watched him grow too, watched him become the extrovert out of us both, watched him find his passion, watched him go after it with all his heart like he did for me.
Through the crushes, through the first loves, through the heartaches, pain and dissapointment, we held on to each other, just like that day in the sandbox all those years ago.
He knows all my secrets and I know his, the only person who knows me better than I know myself.
That little boy became my soulmate in the best definition of the word, he was my person and I was his.
We protected each other, we were there for each other. we laughed together and cried together.
His smile became a reason for me to smile, I felt his pain as deeply as if it were my own, and for all those years, I loved him like he was the second half of my soul, and I know he did too.
Now we're highschool graduates, and life is taking us in two different directions, something it took me a while to accept, because I couldn't imagine my life without him, it feels like leaving a piece of myself behind.
Ever since i was a child, I knew what it was like to love another person in the sense that you want them to be happy, I spent half of my life till now loving him that way, in the purest of ways.
but loving and being in love are two different things for me, at least they were, till the first night of senior year, when he took me to our spot in the old abandoned tree house behind his house, looked me in the eye and told me
" nomatter where life takes us, you will always be my person tia, my soulmate, always and forever " he said, eyes sincere and my heart couldn't stop beating into my ears
because I knew what he meant, ofcourse I did. Shawn loved me like I loved him, but in that moment, with the butterflies in my stomach and the need to hold him and never let go,
I knew I was alittle bit inlove with him too. I was inlove with my soulmate.
It felt alot like loving him the way I already did, but it was so much more different, watching him with other girls before never bothered me but all of a sudden it was like I couldn't breathe.
and when he told me about every girlfriend, I wondered if he didn't know the way I looked at him, but then I realized I had been looking at him that way all my life.
what we had was beautiful, and I'd never do anything to hurt that, so I stayed by his side the only way I knew how, as his best friend, his person.
but life for the first time is taking him away from me now, and he's taking all of my heart with him, but we're us, and we transcend time and distance, we'll be fine and I know it, he's my person after all, we'll always do life together.
even if the definition of that changes over the years, I'll always love him in more ways than one.
so dear bestfriend, I love you, with all my heart, I'll always choose you, I'll always want the best of you, even if that's miles away from me now. you're the best part of me and you'll always have my heart.
and i might be in love with you, but I've loved you for much longer, and I'll probably love you forever.
you'll always be my person shawn, always and forever.
from your soulmate ,
Tiana.
© tonnaV
