[Nida_Shaaz]

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If there was a good time to tell you I loved you. It would not be now.
Every time I went by that graveyard, I felt you talking to me. I could hear your movements intertwine with my own. If only you knew that I loved you.

"Helen!" her head shot up from her desk, she wiped the sleep from her eyes and looked around. The teacher had slapped the chalk down onto the desk.

"If you are not going to pay attention Helen, Don’t bother coming to class. Agreed?"
"Yes ma'am."

The bell rang and her friend caught up with her in the hall. She leant against the wall while Helen looked on the bulletin board for her Skating club's last meeting of the year. "What has gotten into you lately? Problems at home dear?" Her best friend Ryan said while looking to make contact with Helen's eyes. She did not look at him all period. They ate lunch next to the bike racks waiting for her other best friend Rachel.

"Nothing is wrong with me," She finally answered him while reading Pride And Prejudice. He turned his head and looked at the side of her head. "If there is nothing wrong, then why have you been so distant lately?" Somehow he knew the answer. One year, It had been exactly a year this month that Brian had gone into the hospital.

The next day he got up early to pick up Helen for school. They walked past the graveyard and Helen's eyes traveled over the headstones. Her legs carried her without feeling into the graveyard. Ryan had not noticed until she opened the gate. He took a double look at her.

He followed her and they ended up beside a gravestone. It read:

Brian Terrain
1992-2008
May he Rest In Peace

Tears littered the dry dirt around her feet. She had finally made it to his grave after a year. His birthday was coming up so the stone was freckled with flowers and notes. Ryan touched her hand and pulled her away.

"Helen? We can come back after school if you would like. I don’t mind." his voice faltered as she shook him off and sat down. "I’m not leaving Ryan." She looked up at him. Her beautiful big crystal blue eyes sparkled for a moment then were lost. He arrived at school minutes later as the bell rang. The bell echoed through the city as a million twinling bells.

Helen stayed there all morning until Ryan came to bring her home.

No one knows what happened in that graveyard. Helen was never the same again. Most people figure that it had taken a year for it to sink into her. She had never been open about her feelings like she was to Ryan that day.

Every time anyone passes that graveyard, they can hear her voice and Brian's voice playing and laughing. Once someone reported that they had seen them hiding behind both their gravestones laughing at the people who passed.