A Run for Love by Seth Eddings

Look at me at me I'm running half naked through the woods. Not really paying attention to where I am going, because I'm thinking of her. The more I think of her, the sadder I get. And the more I want to give up. My legs are so worn down and sore, I have been running for at least 5 hours now. It feels like they both weigh about 20 lbs each more. Each step is like 1000 pins and needles are puncturing my legs. A great force is pulling my body backward preventing me from going forward. My eyelids are getting heavy, and harder to hold open. I stop. My legs are still moving, but side to side. I cant breath. My body is glowing red. I cough twice and throw up. I fell on my left side. My body began to shake all over. I fell asleep, or I passed out either way, I gave up. At some point in time, when I lay asleep in the forest she approached me. She had come back to me. I had found her. I was just lying there and she found me, I couldn't believe it. Though I was still asleep, I knew she was there. She stood above me and watched me sleep. I didn't want to move. I didn't know why I didn't move, I just portended I was asleep. I just did. This was a strange feeling, knowing that some one was there, but you acted like you where asleep. I felt her get on her knees. Knelling beside me, she ran her fingers through my hair. I decided I would get up know. She must have read my mind because she put her hand on my cheek. This gave a sense of calmness and warmth. "You don't have to get up for me," she said in her gentle and familiar voice. "I don't want you to leave," I said. Still lying down in the forest with my eyes shut. "I'm not leaving you," she whispered into my ear. She lay down next to me, facing away from me. She grabbed her arm and put it around her waist. I squeezed her so that I could never loose her again. The Warmth of her body, the smell of her hair, her soft touch. I will never let go of her. We where sleeping together in the forest, and cuddling. I could lay their forever with her, I love her, and I had found her. My accomplishment was over. Tears fall from my closed eyes, I finally have her. "Why are you crying honey?" She asked "I don't know. I think because you're here." I told her. There was no response. I waited, no response. She was just laying there in silence. I gave her a little shake. "Hun?" no response. This startled me. I opened my eyes slowly. The more I opened my eyes the more I could feel her leaving. I shut my eyes to try and keep her here with me. It was too late. It was too late. She was leaving, leaving gone. Like how smoke disappears in air, she was gone. I opened my eyes; there had been no trace of here every being here with me. I didn't have a dream just another wish.