One Day (A Valentine Short Story) by Samantha Young

Author:Samantha Young [Young, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

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Your Successor

Dear Lola

“What the hell?” Shona murmured, reading it over my shoulder.

I shrugged casually, when I felt anything but casual inside. In fact I felt as if I’d been hit with a shot of adrenaline. It was like my whole body was anticipating something, even though I didn’t know what that something might be.

Hands shaking, I flipped the magazine open to the column.

Once upon a time there was a cartoon of a girl who looked a bit like me with the words DEAR HAZEL scrawled next to it on this page. It had been replaced with a photograph of a pretty stylish redhead and the words DEAR LOLA printed above it.

Every week the most interesting problem letter was placed in the middle of the column in a colored box and printed in a font-size larger than the rest.

My heart started pounding as soon as I began to read it.

Shona began reading it out loud behind me. “Dear Lola, this letter is actually intended for your predecessor Dear Hazel. As I have no other way of contacting her, and your annoying boss wouldn’t give me her personal details or even just pass a long a message (helpful guy, that one), I thought this might be my only hope to get this to her. So, Hazel, I have to hope you still read this column out of curiosity, or rely on the kindness of your successor to maybe send you a copy. If you’re reading this, I need you to know that I’m sorry. What I should have said to you that morning was that even though I knew rationally falling for you in a day didn’t make sense, it did happen. I did fall for you. I had no intention of walking away from that. I just wanted to talk about where we’d go from here. After all I had unfinished business I needed to take care of first before I could hope to have a fresh start with you. But I wanted that. With you. And I should have made that crystal clear.

I swear I’ve never felt worse than that moment in the car park watching you drive away, knowing I didn’t know anything about you but your name. Not even a surname. Just Hazel.

Do you know how many Hazels live in Scotland? A lot. A depressing amount of Hazels, and very little hope of finding the one that I wanted. Watching you go, feeling desperate and powerless, it made me realize that I don’t give a damn if this is crazy. I don’t. I even watched Dharma & Greg. It was funny. I liked it. I got it.

Do you get it? Did you fall as hard as me?

If you did, I want you to meet me at the pub we spent the night together. Meet me there May 16th at 3PM.

I miss you every day. Liam.” Shona turned to face me, her eyes tracking the tears running down my face. “Who the hell is Liam? What did I miss?”

Instead of answering her I threw my arms around her and she immediately caught me.

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