my life as a country album (my life as an album Book 1) by Evans LJ

Author:Evans, LJ [Evans, LJ]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Superman

“I swear I'll be with you someday…

'Cause I loved you from the very first day.”

- Taylor Swift

My superman. My gorgeous, mosaic eyed superman. I had to watch you spread your cape and fly away. With your mother’s beautiful eyes, and your father’s calm. How could I ever say anything but “I love you?” You were flying away. On the wings of, “I love you.”

It was that very next Wednesday that we drove you to college. Your daddy and mama drove in your daddy’s truck loaded with your stuff in the back. You and I drove in your Camaro. We had the music turned up loud and the windows down.

We both tried to be light-hearted. I think I especially tried to hide my pain because I wanted you to enjoy college. Every aspect of it. I didn’t want you to be worried about some little girl back home with a broken heart. And I realized that was probably what you were thinking about me. You wanted me to go back and enjoy every part of high school too. Like I didn’t have a broken heart. A heart that you’d broken. Again.

I could have easily put the song, “Tied Together with a Smile,” here because that’s also how I felt. Like I was putting on my smiley face for you and the world but inside I was broken, and not sure how I was going to get through.

But, let’s face it. You were a god among men. I had to let you fly. I had to let you move away. I was scared as hell that you’d find some sexy college girl, and that she’d earn your heart in a way some silly fifteen-year-old never could. Hadn’t our mamas and daddies found each other in college?

But. I also knew, as my mama was fond of reminding me, that if I tried to hold on too tight to you, that it would just make the string brittle, and that it’d break. Just like if you tried to hold a horse too tight, it shied away.

So. My brave face was on.

We moved you into your dorm. We got to meet some of your football teammates as you were all in the same building together. Your roommate seemed nice. Not a dumb jock at all even though he mistook me for your little sister. It was then that we both felt our age difference again. Like we’d been able to deny it all summer, but now, in the cold hard world, it was still there.

We went to lunch with Craig’s family who had moved him into his dorm too. At least you had a friend somewhere on campus. And before I was ready, it was time to leave. You walked us out to the truck. You kissed me in front of your parents. Hard and long. As if you thought it was our last kiss. As if it was going to be the only one you’d ever get from me again.

Your parents got in the truck.

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