It's Like I've Waited My Whole Life 소설 & 이야기

It didn't feel like losing anything. It felt like setting down a weight I'd carried so long I'd forgotten it was heavy. His hand stayed careful on my jaw, and the rest of him was not careful at all, and the cleft was cold and the rock was hard at my back and none of it reached me. For as long as that kiss lasted, I wasn't a girl who'd died twice and was waiting on the third. I was just a person, in the dark, held by someone who'd waited three lifetimes for the chance and would have waited three more without a word of complaint.

But I will never let that happen. I waited patiently for this moment to come. This waiting has become a part of my life. For fifteen years, I have been praying for our paths to cross. And this is the answer to my prayer.

Outside the window the grounds were bright and the trees were moving in an early morning wind and somewhere forty miles away in a building we were going to take apart brick by brick if we had to was the answer to the question that had been living in my chest for two and a half years. I could wait one more week. I had waited this long without even knowing what I was waiting for.

A kid who stands there until he becomes a man who stands there and never learns that waiting and living are not the same thing. I'm done waiting.

To put these maelstrom of emotions to expression. Expression of longing. Even if Kenneth left me high and dry I will still wait for him. Miracles do exist after all. I’m alive. Maybe he is too. If I’ll just wait for him he will come to wrap his arms around me again. I’m a good girl. I spent fourteen years waiting for my Aunt to see me as another human being – not a tool. Though it didn’t happen, patiently waiting gave me Kenneth. Maybe it will bring him back someday. I just need to wait. Another fourteen years? Twenty? Fifty? Years won't matter. Time is irrelevant. As long as I could have him back I'm willing to do anything.

The waves crashed. The sun moved across the sky. And I kept waiting. Because that's what you do when you love someone. You wait. No matter how long it takes. No matter how impossible it seems. You wait. And I would wait forever if I had to.

I don't even wait for him to say anything, but leave with his food as my mind replays his words. Waiting for me. That's what jumps in my head, whilst waiting for the microwave. Those three magical words, it should have been me saying those words not him. I'm usually the one waiting for him, waiting for him to come home, waiting for him to notice me, waiting for him to tell me that he lo - no, I won't go that far. The point is, I'm shocked yet my chest warms at his actions. Him waiting for me like how I'd done so many times, when he returned home late.

She is really just my life. I've spent so long waiting for years to just be with the love of my life. I've spent so long hoping for something like this to happen, and I almost thought that I had lost that chance. And it still feels surreal to me right at this moment. I needed to constantly remind myself that, at long last, my dream to be with Ari had come to fruition. And this is exactly how I would like it to be. I've been wishing for us to be together for such a long time, and now, my prayers have been answered.

Liana’s POV Isit on the edge of Ethan’s four-poster bed and wait. All my life, it seems, I have been waiting for something. Waiting to be dismissed by my father, waiting to be wed to the highest bidder, waiting to be seen. To be heard. To be used. To befree. I have been waiting for Ethan, now, for days. I am tired of waiting. Since he’s been gone, something wild and ugly has sprouted in my chest and grown thorns.

I was in a push-and-pull game with myself, with one side favoring the other some days. All this thinking wasn’t good for me as evidenced by my puffy eyes. It was the day I had been waiting for all my life except for the last few weeks. It was finally my seventeenth birthday, the day I was finally eligible to recognize my mate. I was both excited and scared about this day. I always had expectations for this day, always dreamed I wouldn’t have to wait a single day. I always thought I hoped I would find my mate on my birthday itself, forgoing all the waiting everyone had to do and all the mistakes everyone made while waiting for their mates. I still wanted to find my mate but I was more scared