Run.
That’s what he told her.
Run.
Run like your life depended on it, ‘cause it did.
So she ran.
She kept her eyes forward.
Don’t look back.
She heard him scream just as she broke through the edge of the woods.
Stop.
Something he told her not to do, never to do, but she did.
She had to.
In that moment she knew it was over.
He was gone and she didn't do anything to stop it.
The one time she decided to listen took away from her the one thing that meant anything.
She was a one, in the dark, with nowhere to go and no one to go with her.
He had told her something just yesterday while they were lying in bed.
“Life is a marathon and you never stop running, ‘cause that’s the only way you survive in this world.”
She never did understand what he meant, so he’d just kiss her.
Kiss her ‘til there was nothing left.
God, she loved his lips, and he loved hers.
All that was over now.
“Run,” she told herself.
So she did.
She ran because her life depended on it.
She ran because it was the only thing she could do once her world came crashing down.
“Run. Don’t look back. And remember to never look back,” he said.
“I love you.”