She was exhausted, but she ran.
She could no longer feel her muscles, but she kept running all the way up that hill, in vain was it that she tried to put behind her the words that she had heard...
It couldn’t be, no way.. Forever
And she ran, ran, faster, she tripped, fell, got up and went on, she could hardly notice her weariness, she could hardly feel the cold sweat running down her body, she could hardly think about what awaits her, or , even worse, what doesn’t
And she ran, till she got there..The very top of the hill.

How many times had they stood here, watching the sunset’s golden rays fade into the blackness of the night..
How many times had they laid here, not saying a single word, simply gazing at the stars, that seem, (just a little bit) brighter from up here, those stars that shine for them alone..Forever, had he told her, we’d be together, forever..
Putting her memories aside, reality strikes her..All in tears, she sits, at that same spot he first said it..Forever
And she weeps into her sweaty hands, she approaches that giant oak, that beautiful oak under which they first made love, that oak that carries, engraved into its trunk, the token of their love “I will heart you forever”

She hits her hands onto the engraving, she can no longer feel her legs, her screams fade into a silent whisper as she tries, in vain, to yell out loud..Where are you! You promised to be here, this cannot be true..!
She caresses the heart he drew, and she whisper, so silently and softly, like she did so many times while watching him sleeps, too afraid to wake him up..How could you do this to me? How could you leave me all alone and unprotected in this cruel world, you said we’d be together forever..That was much shorter than I thought
I’m gathering all my strength not to fall into pieces, I’m being strong like you have always told me to be, but I can’t, my friend, my brother, my lover, my other half, the half without which I shall never now be complete, never be myself, all are gone, left me in a single day, and I felt a blade of a swords cut right through my lungs, right through my heart..For half of me is dead..
You said forever..., she wept shamelessly, hysterically, until she was suffocating of lack of breath, drowning in her own tears..
then, like a 5th grader who got suddenly hit by the correct answer during a test, she gets up, wipes her tears, lets down her dark hair, just like he liked it, smiles, looks at the oak, at the engraving, than at sky, now dark, in which a single star started to glitter, and it was so bright, so bright..
I knew you’d be here..She smiled..You never break a promise, and as she falls back, without a breath, a second star shines up, next to the first, forming together two sparkling eyes gazing down at the universe ..Two happy eyes..And they shined there..Forever..