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The Sweetest Story Ever Told*
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I saw him that one day at school,he was PERFECT.
Perfect smile,perfect eyes,perfect look.He was SO perfect.He was new at my
school,
I was sure.I mean,my school is pretty big,we have 4,000 students in our high
school
alone,but I would never forget a face like that.He had this dirty-blonde-reddish
hair,
and he even gelled the top of his bangs,the rest of it sat short on his head.He had
these
enchanting brown eyes.So deep,that you could get lost looking into them.I wished
to God
that if He would just let me gaze into his eyes for the rest of eternity,then I would
not
have to take up space in heaven.That would be all that I would ever need.He
was tall,
and thin,but built well,not football player style,but you could see his muscles on his
arms when he would life his books into his locker.That first day of school,I fell in
love with him.
God graced me beyond compare,for in this school,with thousands and thousands
of students attending,
he was assigned the four lockers down on the opposite side of mine.So every day
I looked forward to
looking at the back of his head.I know its not much,but it was a life-line for
me.He even had gym class
with me,in my huge gymnasium,but I watched for him every day to show up in his
cute little shirt with the
cut off sleeves and the jeans with the hole in the right knee.I knew everything
about him that a person could
know by just looking at them every day.Like the way when he smiled,he would
have this precios little dimple
in his right cheek.He had a small mole on his collarbone,and a tiny birthmark spot
on the back of his neck.
I loved him,and I had never even talked to him,I didn't even know his name.
Every day at lunch,hewould pass two tables down from mine,and any time he
saw me looking at him,he would smile
at me,I treasured every lunch hour.
One day,my life all changed.
I had been telling my best friend,Carrie,all about what had happened,and how I
was SO in love with him.Carrie just kept
telling me that I needed to go up and talk to him.So finally,about two months into
the semester,I went up to him at luch
when no one was at his table yet.I stood there beside him for about two
minutes,and he never looked up.I was afriad he knew I
was there and was just ignoring me.But,soon,he turned his head,and slowly saw
me standing there.He jerked a little,surprised that
I was there.I gulped down all my fear,and I said "Hey"
He looked at me a second,and then he said "Hey." His voice sounded so weird to
me.I don't know why.I had pictured him with the normal
guy voice,but his sounded like he was speaking through his nose.I stood there for
a minute and looked at him,I didn't know what to say to
him.He motioned for me to sit down,but I didn't take it.I just said "No thanks,I
gotta go,but I was just wondering what your name was.
He stared deep into my face for a minute,and then he said "My name is Skyler
Murray." Andthen he looked at me a minute,as if expecting a reply.
I finally said "Skyler,thats a cool name" He looked at me,like he was a bit
confused,but he nodded in agreement.Then,he said "Whats your name?"
I said "My name is Lorraine Mornaur" He looked a little funny,and he made a
motion like he didnt understand what my name was.I knew he was about to
repeat
his question,but before he could,I said "Well Skyler,it was nice meeting you,I gotta
go,Bye."
And then I left.
I had no idea what I had done.Should I have sat down and talked with him?Was
he weird?He kept staring at me,and wouldn't quit looking at me the whole time.
"Maybe he thinks your pretty" Carrie suggested."Maybe" I thought,I really had no
idea why he acted so weird to me.But I kept my head up,and always looked
forward
to my daily smile at lunch.Until the day in gym.
I was wearing my old Nike T-shirt,and my torn jeans,I had made a pair with holes
in them just so we would match.I was sitting there in the bleachers,watching my
friends play.I hadn't been able to locate Skyler the whole session.I was sick that
day,and I was just watching everyone.Then,out of nowhere,I felt someone sit
right beside me.
I looked quicly,only to fall deep into the gaze of those lush,brown eyes once
more.I'm sure my mouth fell open,and I am sure I looked shocked.He just smiled
at me,and
said "Hi,Laura,how are you?" I was so amazed,I managed "I'm fine,and you?"
He looked a little confused,but his eyes never left mine."I'm good."
We proceeded to talk a little bit,and he never let his gaze wander from my face
the whole time we were talking.I was thinking the whole time,"This is SO
excellent!"
Then,before I got up to leave for my next period,he said "Can I sit with you
tomorrow at lunch?" I was surprised,but I said "Yeah,you can." He looked up at
me,and saw me nod my
head,and he said "ok,I'll see you at lunchtime."
I was so busy when I got home,I was so excited!I got Carrie over,and we picked
me out an outfit to wear tomorrow.It was a cute,clingy,hot-pink long sleeved
shirt,with a Pink,
silky looking skirt that came down to my toes.I had on some toe-exposing
shoes,where you could see the little stars and suns Carrie had painted on my
toenails.She put little
sparkly clips in my hair,and she curled my hair to where it looked wavier than
usual.I wished that I was a size smaller,and had blue eyes and blonde hair like
Sarah Moore,she
so pretty,she sat across from me in second period.I wished that all the time.But
after Carrie fixed me all up,I thought that for just one day,Sarah Moore would
wish she was
me.I couldn't wait for lunch.
When it finally arrived,I was a nervous wreck.When he came and sat by me,I
forgot everything.I gazed into his beautiful eyes,and forgot everything.The
universe,which had been
a mystery to the ages,was a black void in his presence.The stars,the planets,the
sun itself were all inferior.I wondered how God could have created a person so
much like an angel
and put them on earth,and they werent adored by the whole world.I felt so
insignificant,I wanted to die,because he looked better than I had ever seen
him,like he was up the night
before just like me.He was wearing these blue jeans that kind of flared at the
bottom,like bell-bottoms,but it looked like something a guy would wear.He had on
this blue silky shirt,
and it hung from his arms like the extreme fineness that poured of his body like a
waterfall.I never felt so much of a trememndous expierience ever in my whole
life.I was amazed.
We talked,and he was more talkative than ever.He was still staring straight at
me,but I didn't mind at all.I actally indulged in it.How I loved him!Couldn't he see
that?
Afterwards,he walked me to my next class,and asked about sitting with him again
tomorrow.I agreed,and he smiled and left for his class.
The next few months were kind of a blur for me,of make up and skirts and hair
clips,but I waited every day for his eyes to meet mine.I was surprised when I
saw him at the mall one day.
I worked at one of the pizza places in the mall,and he showed up there one day to
talk with me on my lunch break.So we talked,and every day at school,there was a
flower and a note in my locker,
that said a few sweet things,and then it would always say from "Someone Who
Likes You."I always dreamed it was from Skyler,but I knew better.It was from
David Nelson,he had always done things like
that for me since the first grade.I liked Dave,but I didn't like him like he liked
me,and he knew it.But I always dreamed it was from Skyler.
But,one day at lunch,Skyler wasn't there,so I sat with David and Carrie.David
was going on and on about something,I think Christmas vacation,but I neer heard
a word of what he said.
The next day,I waited for Skyler,and he wasn't there.This went on for a week
and a half.I was so worried about him,but I didn't know what to do.I wanted to go
to his house,but he would
never tell me where he lived,I guess because I never asked.But then,one day
after school,he showed up at the front door of my house,he looked horrible
"Skyler!"I said "Where have you been??Why
haven't you been to school??Whats wrong??Why havent you called me??"All this
came rushing out of me,like an ocean.He stood staring at me,and he saw that I
was clearly upset."Please,don't be mad
at me,I'm sorry."
"Where have you been?" I asked impatiently.
"The Hospital" he said lowly.
"The Hospital??Why didn't you let me know!Come on,Skyler,I was worried
sick!!!"
I know I yelled at him a lot,and I was pretty mean,especially to someone who had
just got out of the hospital.He was so sweet looking,innocent there on my front
step,je looke truly confused.
He asked many times for me to not be mad,but I was furious.He had put me
through so much the past week and a half,he made me so mad.I guess it was
because I really did love him,and I was so worried about him,
I couldn't stand it.He just stood there,staring at me,confused and a little scared,I
think,with his arm in a sling,and a dazed expression on his face.
I finally blurted out,mad and frustrated,especially since he was staring at me,and
he wasn't answering my questions,I yelled,cruely,
"Why are you always staring at me all the time?"
He just stood there,and looked hurt and betrayed.He let his head hang,and I
wished I hadn't said it.I put my hand on his shoulder,and he looked up at me with
hurt,confused eyes.
"Skyler" I said softly "Why couldn't you have just called me?Was that so much to
ask?"
Then,all of a sudden,he jerked his shoulder away,and tears of frustration and
anger flowed down his face.He repeated my question,
"Why do I always stare at you?I wish I could say its just because you are the
most beautiful girl on Earth,but thats not the whole
truth.But you are the prettiest girl I ever seen."He said compassionatly,and so
sweet that it made my heart melt.
"But"he said passionately "The reason I never call you and tell you why I wasn't
at lunch and school.."
He stopped and then yelled,tears flowing fro his eyes,
"Because I can't hear good with anything!"
With that,he raised his hand to his ear,and jerked out a small hearing aid.He
threw it onthe ground,and walked away.
I had never felt so bad in my whole life.He was deaf the whole time,and he never
even told me.I felt like the worlds lowest life form.How could I have made my
angel cry?He was the one that made me cry tears
of happiness late at night,and made my hear beat with ecstasy.How I loved
him,and yet how I had hurt him!I cried on the phone to Carrie all night long,and
she consoled me as best she could.
The next day at school,I saw Skyler at gym.He was sitting out,his arm in a sling.I
sat by him,and he never looked at me.I touched his shouldermand he tuened his
head and looked me square in the eyes.I wanted to die.
I siad "I'm sorry." He said "Its Ok,I'm sorry"
I was crushed,"How can you be sorry for anything?I was the one who should be
beat for what I said!But the only reasone I yelled was,because,well,I was
worried so bad."
"And" I continued "And I was worried because,because I love you."
I had the courage to look up,and into his eyes.He wasn't even looking at me.I
knew it was because of what I had said earlier the day before.
So I took his hand,and I made the sign for "I love you" In his hand.he looked at
my hand,and then he looked at me."I love you" he said.And it was true.
Christmas day,I got a big stuffed bear and a rose from him.It wasn't much,but I
was sure it was the most he could afford.I loved him so for that.
The weeks flew by,and still,things went normally.Until one day in March.
He wasn't at school...again.I wasn't worried at all,but by day three,I was a
nervous wreck,again.I went to his house after I had gone all week and not heard
from him.
I knew there was something wrong,because he had got to where he would call
my house and leave a message on the machine,because he knew no one was at
the house at 4:00,because
I was at work,and mom was at work,too.He got to where he would count thirty
seconds,and then talk,because we planned it to when the machine came on.But
he hadn't called at all.
So I went to his house,no one was there.A neibor saw me,and asked me what I
wanted.I told him I was looking for Skyler.What the neibor told me was
heart-breaking.
Skylers dad was an alcoholic,and had beat Skyler many times when he got
home.That was one reason he had to go to the hospital,but nobody could prove
that was the reason.
So he ahd beaten him and his mother several times,and his mother finally fled the
country to her relatives in Mexico.She could stay there for a while,and then they
were going
under government supervision.He said that they would probably never be back
again.
I sobbed while he told me.How could my baby be beat like that?He once told me
that he loved his dad,and his dad was always right.He even said that once,his dad
had tried
to put him up for adopyion because he was deaf.I felt so bad for him.But now,I
felt horrible.
The next month,I looked for him every day at lunch.How I missed him!
One day.I got a flower and a note in the mail.The note said how he loved me and
missed me,and he would never forget me his whole life.he signed the letter,
I love you Laura.He called me Laura,that was his name for me,he never called
me Lorraine,like everyone else.I loved him so much!
I was on the decorating committee at the Junior/Senior prom,but I didn;t feel like
celebrating that one night I had waited for for so long.I only wanted to be with
my Skyler.
But they needed me to be there,to help with a few things,then they said I could go
home.But Carrie made me wear her sisters dress that she wore in the
prom,because I refused to go
get one,I didn't want any happiness in my life ever again.But I wore the dress.
On prom night,I looked around as everyone was dancing.They were with the
ones they loved,how I wished I was with mine.
But about mid-way through the dance,I heard the DJ announce a song.I listened
loudly as he said "This song is dedicated to someone special out there.
I have a note to read for you if your listening,Lorraine Mornaur"
I dropped the glass I was carrying,it fell on the table I was at.I listened more at
that moment,praying Dave wasn't going to get up and profess his love to ,e
in front of the whole school.But to my shock,it read,
"I love you,you are my sunlight in the morning,and my moonbeam in the
evening.And even though it matters to no one but me,if I could ever really hear a
song,
I would want this to be ours.But your smile is more beautiful than this song,and I
would never trade it for a million songs that the angels in heaven sing.
I love you,please never forget me,or this song.I love you LAURA.
He said Laura.Laura.Plain as day,and tears fell down my cheeks as I heard him
say those words.
Then,to my amazement,my favorite song started playing over the loud speakers.A
song I will never forget.
I Do It For You by Bryan Adams was playing,and my heart bled tears,how I
missed my Skyler.
As the song played,an overwhelming,undescribable feeling came over me.I will
never be able to describe it,but I fell
like for the first time ever,I felt true love in all its glory.
I felt a hand on my shoulder,and I turned to sink into the depth of those brown
eyes so many times before I sank into.
I almost screamed in excitement,but he put his fingers on my lips,and took my
hand,and as he ran his fingers throught my wavy,
red hair,he put his arm around me,and held me closer than ever I had been
held.He out his chin on my shoulder,and his lips to my
ear,and said "This is our song,and its only because I love you,Lorraine Marah
Mornaur."
Tears of joy ran down my face as I said "Its Laura.And I love you too."
And with that,he kissed me.He had kissed me before,but never on the mouth.His
lips were so soft,and his embrace so gentle.
Then,from out of nowhere,he let go of my hand and reached down in his
pocket.He pulled out a golden,sparkling ring with a beautiful
diamond in it.He slipped it on my finger and said "I love you,please marry me,and
we will never be alone again."
I cried and cried,but I said yes.I was only a Junior in high school,and I knew what
it would mena if I married him.
I would have a long,hard life,the wife of a deaf man.But I had never cared less
about anything in my life,and I just kissed his lips again and again
and again,and I knew,that for the rest of my life,that I could wake up and look
into those beautiful,brown eyes forever.
God upheld his end of the deal,and he gave me my heaven on Earth for now,and I
have much more to look forward to afterwards,too.
Since that night two years ago,all my hopes and dreams have come true.On my
wedding day,I was touched beyond belief when he got on his knee
and sang our song that we had danced to and fell in love with at the prom years
before.He worked so hard to get the timing right,since he couldn't
hear the music,it was a long,long effort for him,but Carrie helped him,and they
never told me about it.
When he sang that song,he sang it so assuredly,that his voice never came through
so clear,ever.He truly sounded better than anyone could have made it sound.
And after the wedding,he took me to Venice,Italy for our honeymoon,It was one
of the most romantic things I have ever felt,to be with him and know he was
mine.
We got married two months before we graduated,so we got to go to Venice,and
then our Senior trip.(he and his mom came back to our town after his dad was
arrested
on charges of assault,and he cam back to school) Not many people can say that
about their Senoir year.
Since then,in fact,we both believe that it happened in Venice,I am pregnant with
our first child.I hope its a boy so we can have another Skyler around the house,
but Skyler hopes its a girl,so we can name it Laura.But whatever comes
next,with my love by my side,and my God in my heaven,an my child in my arms,
I know I am ready for anything.
And all my hopes and dreams came true when I only said yes.
There are a few love stories left,but I will close mine(which is the best one
ever)With these words.
I love you,always and forever Skyler
Your Loving Wife,
*Laura Murray*
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