I’ll be here if you need me

“I’ll be here if you need me”, she said. Crying, not wanting to leave, but maybe it’s for the best, for now, she thought. It’s such an ordinary thing to say, but her mind was clouded with the thought of them being alone, without each other.  “Have to think, only for now, because the alternative I can’t face”.  She hung up the phone, tried to stop crying. She knew this was coming, partly because of what happened. The truth she tried to push into the back of her mind since she first fell in love, came unwanted to the surface. She loves him still, even with it exposed again. She knew he was her soulmate, a term they used together; for even though apart, the undeniable connection was there. Short separations of contact wore on them both. They needed each other in all the definitions of the word. They still do, but there’s a shadow over them, the old black cloud, and it’s not leaving anytime soon. There’s work to be done, but she can’t help him with it. She can only hope with all of her being that he will succeed, and return to her.  

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