When my boyfriend turns 18

We're gonna move out

Into a small house

Then that changed to

When he finishes college

And I'd go online as we lived in our small apartment

Then that changed to

When he finishes college and has earned enough money

We would live in his aunt's house

Okay but just until the moneys earned

The week before the big one eight

A bomb dropped on my small apartment dream

My mother thinks we should break up

Silence

Your mother

...I could go to jail

Your mother

...I can't do long distance

Your mother!

Your mother decided our ending

This is our story and she is not our author

Silence

The days passed like turtles through molasses

Each day the fear and sadness of losing him getting heavier

I wished for death so I didn't have to face the ultimate demise

Two days before

I cried into my hoodie as I saw him

It's time we're done he said

When he turned 18

I tried to die

When I turn 18

I hope I look back and remember it wasn't meant to be