"It was never supposed to end like this, you
know"
I gasped out while clutching the wound
to my abdomen. Blood spilled through my
fingers and began to pool in the grass. "I
wasn't supposed to die. Not yet. Not until I
knew I could have you safely by my side
forever" A burst of laughter escaped me, and
I relaxed onto the patch of earth beneath me
trying to take in your face against the endless
stretch of night sky one last time. "but I guess
that's how things are for people like me, huh?
People born with the whole world poisoned
against them. Whose fate was always
supposed to be the villain in evervone's story
no matter how hard they tried to be good. No
matter how hard they wanted to be more than
they were meant to be." Tears spilled down
the sides of my face, but I refused to close my
eyes for fear of losing even one second of
gazing at you. You knelt beside me and held
my head in your lap. You were crying too, and
even though I was dying, I hated how you
were hurting and wished I could take every last bit of your pain away. But all I could do
was stare up at you as you sobbed quietly,
listening to me tell you what you had been
waiting for. "You were the first person I ever
met who didn't believe me to be the villain.
The only person who saw me for who I wanted
to be and who I really was. And even though,
it took this-" I motioned with my eyes towards
where my hands were closed over the gaping
hole in my stomach,
"to show everyone how
much you meant to me. How much I wanted to
protect you and your happiness. I would not
take any of it back. Not when I see you before
me now and feel nothing but unending love."
My eyes slowly closed, as my eyelids became
too heavy to keep open, and my head began
to feel as if it weighed tons. "My only regret," I
whispered, "is that I did not have more time to
love you."
