This is the final draft for Say Goodbye to Tomorrow’s Smile and I hope you like it. :)

Say Goodbye to Tomorrow’s Smile

They knew their time was limited; they just didn’t know how to say goodbye. Each time they met in the clearing, they hoped that it wasn’t the last. Over the course of a few weeks, they grew closer to each other and couldn’t prevent it. He tried to push her away, to keep her safe, but that only made her dig in her heels.

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“What trouble have you gotten into this early in the day?” she asks, eyes sparkling with mirth and a grin on her face.

 He responds, in turn, with, "Trouble? When have I ever been trouble?” and ran over to greet her.

It was the same each time she came to visit him, until it wasn’t. Every time winter ends, so does the joyous laughter. He didn’t have to see it happen, but she did. And then he disappeared: neither of them knew where he went in the months between each winter. All they knew was that he disappeared the morning after winter ended from spring to fall and came back with no recollection of who she was. She had to watch as all the progress they’d made vanished in the blink of an eye.

Winter ended in a dreary fashion and paved the way for dull spring months that bled into long summers, so hot that she felt as though she were melting. The bright fall leaves would show every color of the rainbow, yet she could only wish that he was able to experience these moments with her.

Even so, she knew she couldn’t focus on that, not right now. She was determined to enjoy what time she had left with him, so she continued to smile and play all day, absorbing the brief moments of peacefulness, when they would just lie in the fluffy, almost unnaturally green grass, holding each other as tightly as they could. She also knew that they had work to get done in the faint hopes that they could continue to do this. She hopped up from the cozy space they’d made with a large assortment of blankets.

“We should get back to work, if we want this to work,” She urged.

“What if we stayed like this forever? What would it hurt, for us to just live in ignorant bliss for as long as possible?” He asked.

She urged him to realize that there wasn’t much time left so they had to continue. Suddenly, as she looked at him, she noticed that he was making an expression that meant he was thinking of a plan that he knew she wouldn’t agree to.ilent with a solemn look plastered on his face.
He hesitates before saying, “I think I have to leave.”

“What?!” she exclaims. And yet, she knows that he’s right.

He went on to explain his plan, saying that he should leave before winter ends to see if he can find the reason for his curse while he still knows that he has it. She knows it’s a horrible idea yet understands that this could be the only way that they have left so she concedes. They decide to rest for the night and that he should leave first thing in the morning, so that he could make it back by the following day. They sleep. After they wake up in the morning, they say their goodbyes.

“I’ll see you tomorrow, James!”

“Goodbye, Morgen.” He spoke these words as though they were a death sentence, and perhaps, for him, they were. That was the last time she spoke to him, saw his beautiful smile that lit up the room and the dimples on his cheeks that came out every time he was truly happy. Sometimes she thinks back to that moment and wonders if he knew that he wouldn’t ever come back. If she could do it again, if she knew the things she knows now, she’d have never let him leave.