he gave me a rose (standard:non fiction, 1296 words)
Author: cuddlebug	Added: Aug 14 2003	Views/Reads: 3429/2244	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
how I lost my best friend, my first short story ever.

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him. I wanted to be his wife, his lover, and most important his friend. 


After that I dreamed of us having a life together. We were so much
alike, it was scary. We were a good team, and good partners. But, 
somewhere along the line whatever it was we had started getting fuzzy. 
I set out to help him change his life, not to steal it away. Somehow, 
somewhere I fell in love. I thought to myself, "what am I doing?". 

There are times in life when you have to make choices, actually, that's
really whats life is about. And you hope you make the right ones, or at 
least try to. I was never good making choices, I always hang on to the 
"what ifs". But one day you look back and it's all a memory. Everything 
you have done and become will just be a memory. And so will you. 

Somehow, I knew it was time. I sat in my car waiting to pick the girls
up and my stomach ached with nervousness. I kept telling myself it was 
the right thing to do. I felt purely sick. I had to drink to find 
strength. I thought and thought, wondering if this what was best. 

There are places like Pizza Inn, Walmart, the courthouse, places that I
will never be able to go into and not feel like something is missing. 
And the radio, I will have to turn it off. I won't be able to be awake 
without knowing something is gone. A part of me won't ever be the same. 
They say it was better to have loved and lost then to have never loved 
at all. I will never love like that again. It was the purest, most 
joyous feeling I will ever experience. Or ever want to. 

I didn't find the note he wrote till later in that next day while
cleaning up. It will be my prized posession forver. 

The last thing I remember was CB shushing my cry. 

Somehow, I lost my best friend twice. 

I did a good thing last night. It was the single most unselfish event in
my life I believe, because I wanted him for myself. Just like I asked 
of him, when I woke in the morning he was gone. 

My best friend gave me a rose yesterday. 


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