In Love-- A Short Tale

«She had a million thoughts running wild in her head...
"Do I deserve all this? Can I be this happy? I love him so much!...Does he truly loves me? I never felt this way before!..."
She was smiling and she was crying. She felt like her heart was about to explode...
He was holding her face with both his hands...Crying and smiling as well...
Saying that she was his angel...That he had never been in love like this...That she was there to save him... "I love you more than everything in this world!..." he said.
They kissed like there was no tomorrow...
And then, in a split of a second all dreams crashed down.
Out of the blue a group of 5 shows up and pull her by the hair...They start messing around with her...
Like a brave knight, he stands up and faces up the group...
One of the guys pulls out a gun a shoots him in the face...He falls down...They run away...
She screams for help, but nobody pays her attention...
He´s laying on the ground bleeding away...
She holds him in her lap...She cries and scream at the top of her lungs..."Why don't you help me?!Please!Why?!" she screams to the people that were standing there watching...
She kisses him one last time...He's not there anymore...
She doesn't want to be alive either...The pain is overwhelming...
She opens her eyes...
Her heart is racing...
She realizes that she's in her bedroom...
She starts crying...
Of happiness!...
There he was...Sleeping next to her...
Twenty years went by since that awful day...But she feels the same way for him... Like her heart is about to explode...»

By
Sandra Carvalho