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CAMILA
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My heart was in my throat, proceeding to watch such a private moment between two people, who were obviously madly in love with each other. Simultaneously, an uncontrollable surge of emotions rushed over me with a sudden queasiness settling in the pit of my stomach.
I found it hard to take a breath, let alone inhale multiple breaths trying to maintain my afflicted composure.
What was this reaction for a man I barely knew and hadn’t met?
My mind began churning with uncertainty, mimicking the contents of my stomach as it rose to the back of my throat.
My core sped up with each word that fell from his lips, from his heart, from the place inside of him that only belonged to her.
“I can’t live without you. You’re my heart, Bay. You’ll always be my heart.”
And from every word that fell from hers in the same place she resided.
“I know. You’re mine too, Aiden. Life has been hard for us, but I wouldn’t change it for anything because it’s what led me to you.”
Tears started pooling in my eyes, clouding my vision, my judgement, my goddamn mind.
My heart sped faster…
My thoughts even faster.
A whirlwind of sentiments ran over me, leaving a trail of urgency behind.
I felt the happy tears running down her face as if they were my own.
Was I crying?
Why was I crying?
He wasn’t mine to cry over.
It was like I was her and she was me. An eerie shiver hit my body hard. I could physically feel her happiness, her joy, her love…
Their love.
Their pain.
The need to be wanted, needed, adored just the same.
It was right there in front of me, unfolding in the depths of my soul. This picture-perfect couple, their fairytale and happy ending I’d imagined in my mind so many times, I lost count.
What they looked like together.
How they spoke to one another.
The sounds of their voices and the way they were with each other.
It was as beautiful as it was devastating to endure. The way he worshiped her, the way she returned the devotion. What I thought didn’t even compare to what I was seeing before me.
What I was experiencing on their journey of becoming husband and wife.
I stayed there like that, frozen in time. Sitting at a standstill with them. Lost in a world where true love prevailed. The laughing, the smiling, the unity of what they were. Living, breathing, it was all real around me.
I needed to move, I needed to get up and turn it off, I needed to do a lot of things, but I couldn’t get my body to move. Not an inch or for a second. I had to experience it with them whether I wanted to or not.
