You Will Forever Be In My Story

You will forever be in my story.

Even though you aren’t here for the end of it. Even though there are chapters ahead that you won’t be in. Even though I will live days and years and moments that you won’t see.

You were here for some of the best ones.

You were here when I didn’t know how good it could get. When I didn’t know what it felt like to be truly loved by someone. When I didn’t know that some people just change you by being in your life.

You changed me.

And I will forever bookmark the pages where you were such an important part of my life. I will go back to them. On the hard days and the lonely ones and the days when I just need to remember. I will go back and I will find you there, on those pages, exactly where you always were.

I will carry you into every chapter that comes after this. Into the ones that are heavy and the ones I can’t yet see. Into the days that feel impossible and the ones that somehow feel okay. Into the moments where something good happens and you’re the first person I wish I could tell.

You are woven into who I am. The way I love. The way I see things. The things that make me laugh. The things I hold close. That didn’t leave when you did.

You don’t get to be here for all of it. And that is a grief I will carry for the rest of my life.

But you were here. You were so here. For some of the best, most beautiful pages of my story.

And that is something nobody and nothing can ever take from me.