So Close But So Far Away Novels & Stories

Sadly, I would never see him again. My consciousness began to fade. Through the blur, I saw the pouch of medicine I had dropped near the waiter’s feet. Some emergency medicine was still inside. The will to survive drove every part of my body. ‘Just a few more steps…’ I thought. ‘Just a few more…’ I thought I could reach the pouch. Even if I could not, I hoped this would catch the waiter’s attention. Maybe he would be kind enough to give me the medicine so that I could at least have a chance to see my father again.

I do not know what. I only know it hurts. And far away, something important is gone.

He speeds off right away and I'm hurt. What did I do wrong? __________ SFTC: So Far Away - Mary lambert

I nodded, “Sounds great.” With that, I was out of the door. As I was leaving her house and approaching mine, the only thought was, I am falling in love, and I am falling fast.

The surface felt impossibly far. Maybe this was it.

The uncertainty of love and the limitation of his thoughts finally put himself in the prison of love. He looked up at the smiling face of Cora. He sighed in his heart, 'We are so close to each other, yet we're also far away from each other.' They were so close to each other that he could touch her with his hands; they were so far away from each other that he felt that they were not in the same world. But he kept unchanged on his face. Sometimes when he thought of how happy she was when they got married, he couldn't help but sigh.

I can use the distance between us. It feels like when he is close, my brain goes foggy and I can’t think straight. I can’t think like I should. I need to keep my distance. I need him to stay the hell away from me. I can’t be dragged into someone else’s life, especially someone who has big problems like Fred.

I want to be somewhere else. Somewhere far from here. With Jake.

Eventually making me bleed of need. The less I see him, the more I crave him. I am the dry dessert and he is my rain that can quench my thirst. My rain so near yet so far from my reach. It's a painful struggle wanting to have someone so bad but they don't want the same. They prefer to keep you at a distance from the rest, blocking any sort of contact with you. But when daylight streams through your windows, the pain vanishes for a while and excitement flows through your veins.

Two adults standing far apart. Both are reaching for the same child. Neither realizing how close they still were to each other.