Love's Question

When I looked in his eyes I saw he was nervous. "Why are you so nervous Jake?" I asked him. " Well, I....I am not sure if you know this Mary" he told me. "Yes what is it" I questioned him. "Mary I love you and if you don’t feel the same about me I will understand". " No, I...." he cut me off before I could explain. "shhhh..... I want you to hear this first, Mary I love you and I want you to marry me". He told me with calmness. "Mary, will you marry me?" " Jake I do love you so much and I will marry you....Yes, yes of course I will". I said with tears in my eyes. As the days went on our wedding day came closer , We kept planing only 1 week more I told myself. Then when we left on our wedding day we took seprarate cars. When I got to the church I took my time getting ready. One of my bridesmaids turned on the T.V. to see the news. I glimpsed at the T.V. just a moment. The story on at the moment had a death. I looked at it longer and wondered who had died. Then as if they heard me they announced who it was. " Once again Jake Somers has died in what seems to be a terrible car crash". I stood there as if time had been frozen. I couldn’t believe what happened. I screamed" NOOOOO!". everyone around me looked at me as if to feel my pain. I fell to the ground and started to cry." Why....... why did my only love die?!" I yelled out.


© 2000 by Meredith Dougherty

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