Him

This isn't necessarily a story, I don't know what it would be classified as exactly.

It's my first time back in a little over a year. Everything seems so familiar, yet so foreign at the same time. The emotions rising up inside me take all the strength I can muster, to push back down into their cage. I have to wait an entire day to see him. To see the boy I know, and the man I don't. My excitement is coated with fear. Venomous thoughts pollute my head, "What if I'm not who he thinks I am?", "What if he doesn't like me?". One simple sentence freezes the thoughts circling around my head, "I love you, Veronika." 

I'm standing near a booth with my best friend. Her boyfriend is trying to win her a turtle from the carnies that come each year. He tosses ring after ring, hoping to land one on the neck of a bottle. I feel my phone vibrate, and upon reading the text a million butterflies are released in my belly, as they would at a wedding. I am by the ferris wheel. My eyes search the crowd hungrily as my body makes its way towards the light. A pull turns my body to a dark spot on the left of the giant wheel. He sees me and waves, a sheepish grin on his face that nearly causes me to faint. 

I love you too. 

 

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[Ji Sung Moon]

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