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I Fell in Love with Hope - Lancali

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“You were my hope, my sweet Sam,” he says. His warmth that once

bled into me with nothing but our connection ceases to exist.

Instead, the light is drained. He kisses my hairline. “I just can’t wait

for any more sunrises.”

I cry a quiet wail, the kind that lingers like toxic air in your lungs. I

don’t want to lose him like this. Not when we’ve been through this

much, not after he fought so hard to survive. He’s no longer hanging

from a ledge, he got back up, he made it. And now he wants to jump.

“Please,” I whimper. “You don’t even know who I am.”

“Yes, I do,” Sam whispers. He takes both my hands holding them

against his heart. “You’re my first and only love, and that was

enough,” he says. “Even if it

wasn’t forever, it was enough that all those years ago, you answered

a little boy’s prayer and made his wish come true.”

Night falls.

He parts from me.

He walks out into the cold.

I follow him onto the bridge above still, black water.

I tell him who I am.

But I cannot sway him.

I cannot stop him.

Sometimes hope just isn’t enough.

It isn’t meant to save people.

The dark swallows him and I watch him die.

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