Letting Go Of The Love That Some Called Impossible

I tried as hard as I could to get him to notice me. Every college day, I spent going by the classrooms that he chose to spend his time in. It wasn’t much like spying. It was more like trying to get him to notice me. Days passed, and finally, without even planning it, we bumped into each other. This might sound crazy, but to me it was love at first sight. Not only was it to me, it was to him to. Minutes after that, we exchanged phone numbers, and days later, we went on our first date. To us, it was love. But to other people, it was fake love. No one thought that love at first sight could happen. Before this, I was one of those people.1

Months went by and we were still dating. My parents had met him, and they called him ‘the man’. They all bonded so quickly that everyone started to think that it was meant to be. The day that I met his parents was wonderful. But before I had met them it was raining. We had plans to go watch a baseball game, but that had unfortunately been cancelled. If I hadn’t stepped in, and made dinner for them at my small little dorm room, than I would’ve never met them. Besides the beginning, everything was wonderful. I bonded with them, as they bonded with me as well.2

Everyone at the San Diego University was talking about me and Gregory’s love for each other. They thought it was impossible. Gregory and I had never got in any fights, and never even yelled at each other once and everyone thought that right there, was just clearly impossible. But me and Gregory, we didn’t call it impossible; we just simply called it love. 3

A year passed, me and Gregory were still dating. We had never taken a break or anything. There had still been no bumps in the road of our dating, and no fights either. We thought it was perfect, other people thought we were crazy. To us, what people thought didn’t matter. We just cared about how smoothly our relationship was turning out. That’s all that we cared about. 4

One day, in the middle of the rainy month of April, Gregory and I were walking around outside of the university. As I turned around, and positioned by body more towards him, I noticed that his face was all wet. But, I just merely assumed that it was because of the pouring rain that had been occurring throughout the day and that was falling at this very moment. He was whimpering as he kept walking with me, which made me take back my whole assumption of why his was all wet.5

“What’s wrong?” I said, as I looked at him with our hands gripped together. 6

He shook his head, and softly released the two words that a girl never wants to hear come out of her boyfriend’s mouth. “I cheated.”7

“You what?” before I said that, I was devastated. I couldn’t believe what Gregory had just told me. To me, it seemed as if everything was going so smoothly. Everyone called us the perfect match. It was amazing, until this very moment.8

“Cheated, alright!” he yelled. He was yelling out of disappointment of himself.9

“You cheated? Wait…when, Gregory?” I asked him. I let go of his hands, and stepped back. I didn’t want to be near him anymore. Now I felt like I didn’t want anything to do with him.10

“Last weekend, when you were away for the weekend at your parents. I’ve been keeping this from you, and I couldn’t any longer. Please don’t be mad!” he tried to get closer to me to hold my hand but I wouldn’t let him even get near me. Everyone around the campus grounds were looking at us. Some people knew this day would come, others didn’t see it ever happening. Sadly, I was one of the others.11

“Come on, Kriss. We can get through this!” he told me. He kept trying to come after me, but all I kept doing was backing away.12

“I could never forgive you. I will never be with a cheater. Were over.” I told him. The rain was pouring even harder. It felt like pennies were being dropped from a building that had 100 stories. Rain was supposed to be so romantic, but now, rain to me was depressing. The hard liquid that was falling from the clouds made me want to cry. As I was walking away from Gregory, I wondered how I would ever get over this. Tears dropped form my face, no one knew since the rain was covering it. I felt someone run up to me and tap my back. I turned around, it was Gregory. He pulled me close and hugged me tight. This was our goodbye hugs. There was going to be no kissing involved, so I guessed that I could at least give him a hug. We had been together so long, and now it was over forever. As depressing as it sounded, I let go, and waved goodbye. As I kept walking, the rain slowly stopped. Me and Gregory’s love was over. The fairytale that I had lived for over a year had now ended. 13