SO FAR AWAY

- Chapter 4 - Ben's POV -

I've only known Clare for a total of six days. I never thought it was possible to fall that head-over-heels in love with someobdy for only knowing them for less than a week. People may say it's crazy to care and love a person so much when you've only known them for six days. I even thought it was crazy before I met Clare. But it's not; it's the most magical feeling in the whole entire world. Being a guy, I never thought I would say that in a million years. I never thought I would admitt that a girl meant more to me than anything else. But there was just something about Clare; almost like we were meant to be. We were madly in love with each other. We spent every minute we could with each other those six days. Even though we both knew Spring Break would come to an end we tried not to think about it and never brought it up. We tried to enjoy the moment and not think about what will come in the future. But as we sit on the beach, Clare's last night in California, we start to face reality of it all and came to realilization that Clare would be leaving tomorrow morning and we would probably never see each other again.

"What's wrong?" I asked her. She was laying in my arms playing with the cool sand with a worried expression on her face. "This is my last night here." she said as if I never thought of it. "I know. I wished so many times that this night would never end, that we'd never have to say goodbye and just lay here together, forever." A tear feel softly on her cheek. I started to play with her chestnut brown hair. "I guess it's time to just face reality. We knew that this day was going to come." I held her tight as tears silently feel from her eyes. I tried to keep myself from crying. The waves of the beach started to crash on the shore.

"What if we don't have to say goodbye?" I asked hopefully. She rubbed the tears away from her face. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Long distance relationship." I suggested. She sat up and looked at me with her jaw dropped in shock. "Those NEVER work out, Ben. Besides, I bet a bunch of girls are just waiting to go out with you back in Ohio." I took her and and started to play with it. "Look Clare, if we're both willing to make it work it will work. If you love me as much as I love you then we'll find a way. No matter how many miles keep us a part I'm still going to love you." She blushed bright red. "You just know all the right things to say, don't you?" she asked followed by a smile. "Yeah, I know." I smirked. She slapped my arm, "That's exactly why this is never going to work. Girls are going to fall for you left and right and I'm going to be practically half way across the country so I won't be able to stop them." She gathered her chestnut colored hair into a pony tail while waiting for me to continue convincing her that a long distance relalationship would work. "Like guys aren't going to try to get with you, Clare? It's going to be tough but we can do this. Please, I can't imagine my life anymore knowing you won't love me. I don't think I'll be able to stand not talking to you. Besides, long distance relationships are so much easier now-a-days with cellphones, skype, facebook and millions of other ways to communicate. Clare, I love you and I don't want to lose you. Please." I begged. I was desprete, I needed Clare more than anything, I was that crazy about her. She slowly bobbed her head back and forth thinking about it. "Now that I think about, I think I'll go completely crazy without being in some form of a relationship with you. But Ben, it's not even like our colleges are in the same state. It's not like in a few months we'll be reunited; we've already been accepted into colleges and can't change that now." I grabbed her hand and stared at her straight in the eyes, "Listen Clare, I don't care about that. All I know is I want to be with you; if that means a long distance realtionship we can manage. After college we can move to the same state and live happily ever after." I suggested, trying to get her to agree. "What about my dream of traveling the world?" she asked shyly. "After college, I'll go with you Clare. Your dream is my dream now." She bit her lip, trying to hink even more. It was so late at night, my parents are probably at my aunt's house worrying to death about me. "I guess a long distance relationship would be romantic. If it's the only option we have, I guess we'll have to go for it. We can make it work because I'm in love with you." I smiled at her, happy that she agreed. "I'm in love with you too Clare Fowler." She smiled back and me and we kissed; for the the last time in this paradise where we had met.
 
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