I looked at the screen above her terminal that read North Carolina on it.
She was leaving, just as I was arriving.
I secretly hoped it was for a weekend or a mini vacation, but I knew I wasn’t going to be that lucky. I felt it in my heart that this was going to be another of those times that we got lost in the path of life. Colleges were starting in the next few weeks all across the country and here I was hoping and praying that she wasn’t off to do what I was about to do.
That she wasn’t going to start a new chapter to her life and start college as a freshman.
How I had wished with everything in me that she would stay here, but she wasn’t going to. She was going toward her future, just as I was.
I had spent the last few hours staring at her and writing about her, rather than being with her and that was going to have to be something I lived with. I looked back down at my phone, happy I at least had something to hold onto until we met again.
Because I had no idea when this girl would ever walk into my life again, or if she ever would.
But it was a hope I had to keep in my heart, because with each passing second, my peaches moved farther away and my love for her grew stronger.
