The One That Got Away

"Lana wake up. Please wake up. Please tell me you're just sleeping." I pleaded, sobbing continuously.

Leaning down over her body, I looked with her with longing teary eyes.

" I've loved you my entire life. From the moment I laid eyes on you I knew that you were the one I'd been searching for and all of this time…. I've kept it deep inside of me." I whispered, ruffling her hair with my fingertips.

"Why'd you have to take her from me? Why her? Why not me?" I yelled bitterly, looking up with hateful eyes. Sliding down onto the floor, I lay beside her, salty tears filling my eyes once again as I began to weep bitterly. I cried myself to sleep that night huddled close to her lifeless body.

The next morning I awoke to find a notebook clenched tightly in Lana's arms. Curious to what it could be, I took hold of it, running my hand against its worn cover. I opened it slowly. Inside it was a mix of beautiful sketch drawings of flowers and other random objects. As I flipped thorough it's pages I stumbled upon a crinkled page that had writing on it. It read:

James, My Only One

He was there for me from the start.

He never broke my heart.

If only I could tell him how much I care.

But inside the words just aren't there.

So inside this tree house I will store my heart…