BELLA
‘I love you.”
‘You mean the world to me.’
‘I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you.’
‘You are my everything. You make me whole. You complete me. Bella, you give meaning to my life.’
Luke would say those to me. He would always whisper them to my ears while locking eyes with me. Now I wasn't five years old, I knew people said these all the time. Especially with the presence of the internet. We girls get random strangers on the internet tell us that they love us— right before they send an underwhelming picture of a d!ck. What am I getting at? It wasn't just the words. It was the way Luke would say them. It was how still his eyes would always be whenever he looked into mine, saying those words in a way only he could. Yes, I believed him every time he said it.
I didn't
