Meeting My Long-Distant Best Friend

She caught site of a familiar face. She squinted studying the features. Whoever caught her eye was standing alone and distant, surrounded by passing people. She couldn’t quite understand why their face had caught her attention. They were looking around, seemingly lost. Then Leah locked eyes with them and she knew exactly who it was. “Oh my god…” she choked out, then took off. She was full on sprinting as fast as she could in heeled shoes. He saw her coming and began to pick up pace in his walking. “BRANDT!” she shrieked. They both collided and the force blew Brandt back a few steps but he held on to her as tight as he could, her head on him. “My god…” he breathed. “Leah.”

“This is really you,” she cried out and squeezed him tighter. “Yes, of course,” he sobbed. Tears leaked out of both of their eyes, streaming down one after the other and sounds of sniffling and sobbing were exchanged. Leah whimpered into Brandt’s sleeve as a smile remained plastered across his face. “I couldn’t find you,” came a muffled voice. Leah’s face was completely buried in his shirt, staining the fabric with tears. Time couldn’t make up its mind and slowed to a halt. People passing by were suddenly frozen.

“Sorry about your shirt,” Leah laughed. “No, no don’t apologize at all,” Brandt chuckled. “I’m sorry for not showing up early. I… I just thought it would be the perfect time to show up after everything.” he explained. Leah lifted her head to examine him. “It’s okay.” she beamed then embraced him again. He had the overwhelming urge to lift her up and spin her around and give her piggy-back rides. She was small compared to him. He could smell her hair give off an aroma of creamy shampoo. It felt good to hug someone so close to him - the thought of letting go never crossed his mind.  “You looked really great up there,” he complimented her. “You were here the whole time? You watched me on stage?!”

“Of course I did. I was here from the beginning I just didn’t show myself until the end,” he laughed and she let out a laugh too. She wiped away tears from her eyes and couldn’t stop smiling. “I told you I would bawl.” She sighed into him. “Remember when I said we could break the record for the world’s longest hug?” she asked. He nodded, “I do remember that.”  

“How long have we been hugging?” she questioned. He checked his watch. “So far, about 26 minutes.”

Author's Note

I had written a story about my graduation day because of the fact that my long distant friend will be coming to my graduation in 2 years. This is the first time we will meet and I wanted to write about it and what I visualized happening. I only took the chunk out where I find him in the masses of people. Enjoy :)

Reviews

[Alyssa Case]

PARAGRAPH BREAKS! Every time someone new talks (this is my pet peeve i am sorry)
It was really sweet and I could definitely see your realtionship with him in the story :) Continue them?

[leahanne]

Explain to me how to do this again? :) I thought I was "paragraph breaking" correctly hehe

[Alyssa Case]

every time a new person talks as in
girl says "sdfsdf"
(new par) guy says "asdfasfdasFD"
(new par) girl says "asfdasfd"
so even if they are already introduced characters, every time it is a differenct preson speaking you need a new par
or every time you introduce a new idea

[leahanne]

So it could be:

"Hello," she said to him. She smiled.
"Hey, what's up?" he asked. He brushed a strand of hair from his forehead and shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans. He was nervous and didn't quite understand why.
"Nothing much," she replied.

{Something like that? May take a while to get used to... I guess I just have my own little way of formatting everything in my head that must be wrong lollll}

[Alyssa Case]

yes! yay! its fine just make sure you check, ya know? like edit and whatnot (grammar nazi ova here)

[leahanne]

what would I do without you ;) xoxox

[Alyssa Case]

crash and burn ;) haha jk