Missing

Jake's POV

As the guitarist hit the cord and I grabbed the mic to hum the note, my eyes closed automatically.

The sea of people in front of me vanished. I was back on top of the mountains. Lea was right in front of me where I could touch her.

She smiled as she heard me hum and I loved to see that I made her smile like that. And it went like -

"In the echo of our whispers, I hear eternity's call,

But the tears in your eyes paint a different wall.

Promises of forever, now shattered like glass,

Our love's flame flickers, fading into the past.

(Chorus)

Forever together, yet forever apart,

Two souls entwined, but torn at the heart.

In the silence we linger, in love's bitter embrace,

Forever together, yet forever apart. "

I tried to keep my voice steady because of the sheer emotions that the song was bringing back, shook me so much from within that my voice was about to crack.

I had to go back and schedule surgery as soon as was possible. Perhaps it was evening, perhaps it was the air,