When I first met you, you were the apple of my eye, the forbidden fruit. I would do anything to get you. But I was shy, so I watched from afar. Watched my apple go about his day, laughing. As the year went on, I convinced myself to talk to him. It was something small, he said yea thanks. I told him I liked his shirt. It may not seem much but that had made my whole freshman year. To know that someone like him would even talk to me. Ever. It was such and accomplishment. Those who’ve had crushes will know. At band camp we became sort of friends. Because my obsession with him was getting overly insane. People said he was out of my league, that I would never get him, but I was determined, he WOULD be mine. Then a senior took him away from me. I cried. I cried so hard. I knew he was my light. I knew someday we would be so happy together. Through lots of hardtimes though, I had done it, I had talked to him. A week after getting out from the other girl’s clutches I snagged him as my own. And a week later he asked me out…. Sortof. It was honestly the most pathetic thing I had ever experienced in my life. But no, I was sortof happy, and still shy, because we had barely talked and he had already asked me to be his girlfriend. The next few months were amazing. Although, I feel like they were horrible at the same time. I feel like I kept pushing for this relationship to go further because I craved for it to go further. I craved him. I craved having someone to wake up to and care for. Eventually, I fell in love.
I fell in love with an outcast, an asshole, and ugly piece of shit. Everyone called him these things to me and ALWAYS questioned why I would ever date such a thing. But I didn’t. He was mine and I loved him with all my heart. Over the past month. I didn’t fall out of love. But I was hurt. Multiple times. I confided in him only to have my heart broken at the fact that I don’t believe he really cared if I lived or died. His expression when he saw me in the mornings didn’t look as ecstatic. We were falling apart.
Today, I broke up with my love.
And I will never be the same. I don’t know how it got this way but I know that I will never be the same without him.
He is my light. The reason I wake up in the morning. The reason I even bother coming to school. The reason I try to keep my grades up because I don’t want his family thinking he’s dating a chump. I stand with him everymorning and I think wow, his friends must be ashamed. Who would want me standing by them every morning. Clinging to them for life. I felt like I was the only reason this relationship worked. He was so…. Robert.
I never stopped loving him. But he was breaking me so much that I had to let go. I had to let go of my light.
Now I am in a hole filled with darkness.
Now I am alone.
Now I am death.
Now and forever I will never again feel what it feels like to love again
He was and forever will be the love of my life. My soul, My being.
He is everything I am, but also Everything I am not.
He is not selfish, he is not evil, he is not poormannered, he is not illnatured, he is not stupid.
I hope to hell he’ll come back to me.
Robert Allen McNeal, Junior.
I love you forever 12-16-11
You have no idea what you’ve brought to me and I’ll never stop loving you.
But you made your choice and it was probably the right one.