FORGIVE ME PLEASE

‘I’m sorry, what?’ Alex felt like her head was spinning. Noises faded into the background as she looked at her girlfriend of 2 years in disbelief. Her voice was shaking as she uttered ‘you can’t be serious! What about us?’ At this point, tears welled in her eyes. Her girlfriend, Stacey, grabbed both of her hands and said softly ‘we can still be together. It’s only a year and then I’ll be back’. Alex pulled away from her, sat on the sofa and started crying. As she sat there she couldn’t help but think why is this happening?

The day had started like any other, she woke up clinging onto the scraps of the quilt enveloping her beautiful girlfriend. She smiled at the sight, grabbed Stacey in a tight hug and kissed the top of the sleeping girl’s head. She lay like that for a few moments before getting up to get ready for the day. After her shower, she returned to the bedroom to find her girlfriend awake and giggling at something on her phone. ‘What are you giggling about?’ She asked, although she already knew the answer. ‘TikTok! There’s a woman being chased by a seagull!’ Alex lay next to her on the bed and watched the video with Stacey, they both laughed and Alex said ‘I’d die if that happened to me, I hate birds!’ Stacey but her phone down on the bed and grabbed Alex by the chin and said ‘please don’t talk about you dying, my heart wouldn’t be able to take it if anything happened to you’. Alex leaned in and gave her a soft kiss and said ‘you softy’ they looked at each other smiling for a moment when Stacey’s alarm went off startling them both. They both laughed at the intrusion and carried on getting ready for work.