Day 5: Key
Stepping out into the observatory I looked around, this use to be our favorite place to go. It hasn’t seemed to change much, expect there seems to be less people than last time. We use to come here and just watch the world, we’d create stories for all the people who passed by, and make plans to one day visit the Earth.The green and blue spinning ball was the most amazing thing to us.
We dreamed of time when we could run around on actual grass, and go swimming in an ocean. You’d read me books about all the animals, and we’d look at pictures of forests and streams. Looking out through the glass and down to Earth we felt we could do anything, we thought we’d live forever.
As we grew older out plans came together little by little, saving all the money we could, so that one day we could see all the things we could only dream about. The more excited you got about the things you loved, the more I fell in love with you.
Shifting back to reality just in time to avoid a collision with a group of small children, I made my way toward the bench closest to the window. Watching those kids made me smile, their excitement was almost infectious, and for a minute I had almost forgotten why I was here.
Too me it feels just like yesterday, but it’s been five years. Clutching the key necklace you gave me I wished more than anything that you were still here. When you gave the necklace to me, you told me that the key was going to be the one for our home on earth, but that was before you got sick.
Watching you die was the worst thing I have ever gone through, having my world suddenly crash down around me, all our plans vanishing within a blink of an eye. And there was nothing that I could do for you, except hold your hand and tell you time and time again how much I loved you.
It finally got to the point where even holding your hand hurt you, and staying awake for extended periods of time was almost impossible. Through it all you just kept smiling and telling me about our future, until the very end.
I remember after you died I kept hoping that it was all some big joke, and that you would be here in the observatory like you always were. And everyday I would come here and look for you, but you were never there.
Wiping away tears that had started to form I stood up and made my way out, only stopping to look back on more time before I left for earth. I was going to see the world we had talked so much about, and I was going to live our dream.
