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The afterlife...

It started back on the coast me, him, and rue. We were the group of kids from movies. We spent every moment we could together. Owen and Rue were the siblings that were inseparable, more like best friends then siblings. They lived a normal middle class life a nice house, spoiled just enough but not snobby. They were my best friends, sleepovers everyday, playing on the beach behind our houses, doing everything we could whenever we could.

As we progressively got older I became closer to Rue, I had a lingering crush on Owen so I distanced myself. When we started high school me and Rue were the ones having sleepovers every night, Owen had new friends that were older, ruder, and loved to get shitfaced at parties anytime they could. Me and Owen talked but not like we used to and when we talked he was asking for a ride home from a party. He would tell me how he was so drunk and needed help, that I was the only one that could help him. And I always did, every time. Those car rides back to his house were my best nights. Where he would say things we both new he didn't mean, telling me that I could "get any guy I wanted because I was so unbelievably pretty" and then falling asleep on the window. After a few of those nights I felt myself liking him even more.

Junior year he started to be more flirty even when he wasn't drunk, stealing glances at me whenever he could, complimenting me every time I showed up at his door to hang out with Rue. These comments never went unnoticed though Rue would always tell me that "he looks at you like you are the only girl in the world". Which would consist of me blowing her off and laughing like I never noticed. But I always did, and as I noticed more and more my little crush grew into something deeper. As me and Owen grew closer through high school we eventually got together at first it was a drunk hookup nothing serious. But then it was an every Wednesday when Rue had Tennis practice hookup. And soon after he showed up at my house with a prom poster asking me to attend prom with his as "his girl". We became the couple that was infatuated with one another.

Senior Year I had everything I had ever wanted Owen as my boyfriend, Rue as my best friend, and many acceptance letters to colleges I had never even heard of. The year flew by and by the last month before summer me and Owen talked about college. He was passionate about acting, he wanted to move to Los Angles to pursue his dreams. And for me I wanted to go to the best college I could and get into Marine Biology, which was in Hawaii. I brought up long distance and he started to argue with me saying "it would never work" and how he "could never be with someone who lived so far away". That night we fought for hours, every time I came up with a solution he shot it down instantly saying "it would never work". He decided that it would be best if we just broke it off right then and there so we wouldn't be hurt. I objected and pleaded that we could make it work but he insisted it wouldn't and left me alone in my room bawling.

I texted Rue a few hours after and explained every thing that he had said, she rushed over with a tub of ice cream and lot of tissues. She told me he was probably just confused and wasn't thinking right. But he didn't text me, avoided me in class, had his window shut and lights off. I began to realize he was serious we were over and I wasn't going to get him back. I called so many times, always going to voicemail and leaving my new solutions are the beep. Nothing, I got absolutely nothing.

When graduation came around my parents didn't;t ask to take pictures with them they just accepted the fact wasn't going to talk to me. Two days after graduation I felt like I was hit by a train I saw him walk out of his house with 3 big suitcases that looked like they may break out the seams at any sudden moment, get in a cab and leave. I ran down the stairs to go stop him and at least get a goodbye, but he was gone. He parents and Rue tried to comfort me and tell me that this is what he wanted, he couldn't say goodbye. I

laid in my bed and cried most of the summer waiting to start my Marine Biology Program in the fall. I checked his social media everyday, when I woke up, in the middle of the day, and before bed. He would post about his getting his head shots done and going to parties with other actors. Rue would tell me that he's going through a phase and he didn't understand the gravity of his decision. But I never believed her. When fall came I left for Hawaii and said my goodbyes. Everyone told me that I would find so much more in Hawaii and see the world.

That was 5 years ago, I got the best education in Hawaii and moved back to my hometown 2 years ago. I live in a house right down the road from my parents and Rue who I kept great contact with thought my years in training. She gave me updates on Owen whenever she could. Now I only check his socials once a month. He got casted in a few movies and some great shows that took off fast. He was a phenomenal actor and turned out to be a very attractive man.

But recently Rue told me that he was coming back to town for a month off of the craziness of LA. That was last week so when I saw a taxi pull up in the driveway of his childhood home my blood went cold. He walked out of the taxi in some black shorts and a coral polo shirt, muscles fully defined and fresh haircut, my jaw dropped he looked even better than the movies. As he walked into his house I watched his parents and Rue run out of the house and embrace him. I felt a ping of jealousy in my chest as my parents walked out of their house and embrace him in a warm hug. As I was about to walk away from the window I saw Rue look across the street to my house seeing her watch me through the window like a full blown child. I started to grab my gear to head off to work, walked out the door and saw everyone turn to see me try to carry my huge bags to my car. We made eye contact that lasted for longer than I had intended. I was the first to look away but I could feel his burning stare look me up and down and back up again. When I looked back over with a smile and a wave I saw him set his bags down and start walking towards me.