It began with a moment.
A moment where a smile made me question all the smiles that I have seen before. A moment where my heart skipped a beat, my face filled with the heat of a blush across my cheeks and my voice quaked with nerves.
A moment where you voice broke me from my trance and the world turned technicolor. A moment when you asked me to dinner, I said yes straight away. I didn’t have to think about it. We ate food that we would regret later, made each other laugh and stayed out too late.
A moment when you dropped me home, you stayed a while. We sat in the gutter at the front of my house. Looking at the stars and talking about dreams for the future, how I wanted to run my own business and you joked about being a model but you really wanted to help people who’ve had a rough life.
A moment where you wrapped one arm around my shoulders when I was cold. You whispered, ``You're Beautiful’. I smiled then, nestling my head on your shoulder. A moment where I felt happy, breathing in the smooth and spicy scent of your cologne.
A moment when it was past midnight, it was time for you to go. I hugged you close to me, admitting the desire to see you again. Your lips touched mine for the first time, my body filled with fire. You pulled away, with a promise to call me in the morning.
The morning came, then another morning and another after that. You didn’t call, you didn’t text. My heart broke at your silence. A moment where I believed that you were just playing with my heart as a game. A moment when your name flashed upon my phone screen and all those thoughts disappeared. My heart sank, it wasn’t your voice that I heard.
This is the moment that my world came crashing to a halt. It led me to this moment here, where I stare out at your family, sharing our private moments that mean the most to me. A moment where a girl tries not to cry as she says goodbye to the man she was falling in love with.
It was only one moment where you lost your dreams, your love and your life because of a drunk driver after midnight.
A moment we lost our chance at a love of a lifetime.