Today is March 13th, 2012.
And this is a true story.
look long but please read!
It's probably the warmest day in March. I was outside felling great. It was 68 degrees out! Then me walked over to me. Lewis, my next door neighbor. He was so cute! I felt like the happiest girl alive when he walked over to me. He smiled and simply asked, "What are you doing?" I didn't want to bore him and say that I was enjoying the beautiful day, so i said, "I'm going to dip my feet into the lake to see if it's warm enough to swim in!" I ran to the lake and stood there waiting for him to join me. He did. "Lets jump in on 3!" Was he flirting with me? Who knows. He counted, "1...2...3!" We both jumped in and the water went to our ankles."Ahhhhhhh!" i screamed. "It's so cold!" He was laughing like it was the worlds warmest lake. I never knew my next action would make him leave, but i wasn't thinking. I just wanted to impress him. So i did what i though would make him laugh. Like it was all one big joke. But it didn't. I shoved him into the lake. His whole body diapered into the lakes waters. i quickly jumped out of the lake cause i thought he was going to sneak up and grab my feet. I waited. 10 seconds. 20. 30. 2 whole minutes passed by and then i saw him. Floating on the water. Face down. Scared out of my mind I dive into the water and drag him to shore. I'm freezing, but I rather lose all of my fingers then let him go. I flip him over. He's not breathing. I call for help and then I try to revive him. An ambulance comes and takes both of us (they think I might have hypothermia). 3 hours go by. I wake up and rush out the door. I ask the nurse where Lewis is. She looks at me with a shocked expression. "You haven't heard?" I don't bather to listen any more. I race to his side and beg him to wake up. OH PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!!! I look up at the doctor. He shakes his head and whispers, "He's gone." My heart drops to the floor. No. This can't be happening. It's all my fault! I thought we were just playing around. I didn't know he would drown!!!! My life is ruined. I look up. I see blurry figures. I wipe the tears from my face and see his parents. They looked at me, smiled and whispered, "He loved you," Tears are streaming down my face. "he told us every night at dinner how much he loved this one girl. He didn't say who, but we figured it out. By the way he looked at you. By the way he walked with you, talked with you." I was sobbing now. I loved him too, but now he'll never know that! Mrs. Smith took a deep breath to try to hold back the tears. "Also there's one more thing. He was awake, only for a moment. Do you know what he said?" No I didn't. Tell me! "He said to me 'Tell her I'm in her heart. That I'll never leave.' I knew he only had moments left but he kept on speaking 'Look in my desk drawer, get the blue notebook and give it to her.' Then he gasped a few times and then looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Mom. Tell her I love her.'
That night Lewis' mom called and told me to come over. So I went and when I got there, she handed me a blue notebook. I opened it and read it all. I was sobbing like a baby. He wrote the future in this book. The names he was going to name OUR kids. Where we would live. Exc. But what made me cry the most, is that there were side notes with quotes I said about where I wanted to like someday, names that I liked, and what kind of car I liked. He did love me!!!! But now he was gone. The love of my life is gone. I'll never love someone like i loved Lewis.
Rest in peace Lewis. You'll always be in my heart. Forever.
TeamPita