The stars are bright tonight, painting the dark blue sky with milky light. The ghost of his arm around me tight, I feel closer to them than ever before. I know that he's up there, somewhere. Maybe on a different planet, maybe in a different galaxy or on a star that hasn't been born yet. I like to think of him like that, endlessly big and small at the same time, lounging about on the stars, thinking of me, waiting for me.
It isn't my fault that he killed himself. That's what I keep telling myself. He loved me with all the heat of Mercury and all the gravitational pull of Jupiter. But now he's as far away as Pluto and I can't get to him, can't
"You don't have a heart."
"That's only because you stole it."
"I stole it? Me? Don't you mean that she stole it?"
"You took it long before she came into the picture."
"If you really cared about me she never would have come into the picture."
"Well, I don't care about you, I don't know you."
"Finally some honesty."
"But I think I could love you if I did."
"There we go again with the lies."
"It's not a lie."
"Prove it."
"How can I prove that I could love you if I knew you if you won't let me know you?"
"You can't."
"Exactly."
"You're just going to have to get creative, then."
"Why should I?"
"To prove that you could love me."
"
Maybe Destiny Got It Wrong by fangedfallenrose, literature
Literature
Maybe Destiny Got It Wrong
Lola was a shy poet with too many dreams
She spent her days scribbling stories on the walls, pouring sunshine and pine needles into test tubes, and playing leapfrog with words.
James was an affable singer with stars in his eyes and no words to feel
He passed the time smashing CD's to sparkling dust, dancing his fingers over the keys, and practicing signing his name in wet concrete,
And then he met Lola.
Lola made his days glisten with bubbly sentiments unsaid,
He tried to catch her agate eyes' glitter in a jar,
He saturated pages with the new passion bubbling in his soul and abandoned them in the rain
And called her when he knew she wasn't