Fallen Memories (Alyssa again)
Fallen Memories
By Alyssa Curtis
It's strange looking back on how we were together. No one could have
found two completely different people who were closer than any pair in
history. We shared laughs, tears, accomplishments, and heartaches. Together
we were sisters, not by birth but by chance. Yet nothing lasts forever, and
we were no exception. So now we're stranded with fallen memories and broken
promises, a thousands words unspoken with only our forlorn thoughts for
company.
I remember meeting you on that rainy Tuesday. You wore five inch heals
with an attitude that frightened even the most secure. They avoided you,
afraid of what you'd say. I surprised myself by being the first to approach
you. With a thick brooklyn accent you greeted me with a friendly hello, and
we immidiately clicked. Years went by and we drew closer to each other,
learning everything there was to know about each other. I knew your family
and treated them like my own, as you did to mine. Through bad break-ups and
jokes that never ended, it seemed we were unseparable. Yet youth brings
follishness, and I suppose I was too.
You were always the beautiful one. With long brown hair and large
beautiful brown eyes that seemed to look deeply into the souls of people.
Thin and elegant, I can never remember a moment when some guy wasn't after
you, but you always put me first, that is till the day you met chris.
You weren't ever truely happy after Rob. The boy let you fall in love
with him, and then broke your heart. You weren't strong enough, and he knew
it. He played on your emotions, and tried to destroy you. I cried so many
nights with you, trying to give you my strength. How we got through those
nights, I don't know, but we managed to make it. I wanted to find someway to
ease your pain, but I went to a different school by now and we were miles
apart.
That was also the year I met Chris. He was tall, cute and charming, so he
wanted nothing to do with me. Yet we were still friends. I saw you still
looking for someone to complete you, and i saw him searching for the same
thing. It clicked immidiately in my mind, so i didn't think twice about
introducing them. Others told me it was a mistake, but i shrugged them off.
After all, I care more about youthan myself, I mean what was the worst that
could happen?
The two of you clicked instantly. It was the first time I had ever
seen love at first site. I was overjoyed at the fact that you were finally
content with your life. Sure, he began to get the attention I always had, but
you were happy and that's all that mattered.
The days you didn't call turned into weeks, the weeks in monthes. I
called you, I figured you had just forgotten, but you never picked up. What
would it have been to call me for 5 minutes? As time past, My heart slowly
grew weaker and i stopped calling. You didn't notice. My life was no longer
filled with happy stories or complaintsof school, just the empty sound of my
empty house.
I remember our very last meeting together. I told you that I felt alone
and distant from you, like you no longer cared about me. I felt our
freindship was disintigrating and that we were being ripped apart. You
immidiately attacked me saying that i was just jealous and that I didn't want
you to be happy. Your words cut into me like knives, and pain suddenly
entered my soul. I could no longer handle anymore, so we ended.
Nothing lasts forever, and you and chris were no exception. Chris Broke
up with you on your anniversary. You immidiately called me crying. I wanted
to be there for you, but apart of me refused to be used. "I loved you
endlessly, steph. But you weren't there for me. So go and cry to someone else
you want to use." It was the first time in our history I remember you being
silent. I hung up, unable to bear the defeaning silence.
So we're left with fallen memories of good times and funny moments that
never seemed to last. Our souls are scarred with words we didn't mean to say
and actions that can never be taken back. I wish for words to break the
silence, but they never come. Our once in a lifetime friendship has ended,
and divided we stand alone, from now until the silence is broken.
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