Created By

bladesfire

Rate this Story

Embed

"She looks so...happy..." he said as he watched her dancing. "I could never do this to her. It isn't fair... it isn't right... She just looks so..." He stared at her for a moment or two, molding his words in his mind. How would he tell her? How could he do this to her? While she danced in the arms of another. "...so...happy..." he whispered to himself as the silent tears threatened to emerge. He was so immersed in the blurry haze that his vision was all but nonexistent. Suddenly- no, subtly- he heard a sweet cooing voice. "You're here." He dammed his eyes with a blink, and his vision was restored to him, and he was terrified at what he saw. She was smiling at him.

She had no idea.

His feeble murmurs and soft, clumsy whispers came stumbling from his trembling lips as the thought kept ringing in his ears, like her voice on a clear afternoon: ...so...happy...so...- "Wait!" he called after her as she softly danced to her unknown partner. Her gentle face turned to him, and he paused for another breathless moment, not in thought, but in the abscence thereof. His teeth found his lip as he grazed, like a writer fidgeting with his pen. There was a sigh on the still air, and all was still, but for the thundering in his chest. "Don't do this," he thought. "Don't hurt her. Don't tell her. And what would you say as she is waiting?" He looked up at her, and he found that she was again dancing with this other man with which she seemed  so taken...so happy...so...beautiful.... "Wait!" he gasped again, and the voice was not his own. "I must tell you something, but..." he faltered. "I would like to speak for myself," he began again, "but the only thing I can think of every time I see you, every time you're near me, every time you look at me..." She was staring at him receptively. "...but the only cliche` that keeps repeating in my head are words not my own. The only one that applies to me that I cannot escape...." He stopped and dammed his eyes, but his defiant tears fell. "I love you."