Liebeslied: A Short Story

LIEBISLIED---The ringing of the bells can be heard throughout the cathedral; anxiety rushing its course through her veins, unspeakable joy is all she could feel. As Alysson draws near the dark oak doors and as her father holds onto her hand, her body sways as the piano plays; she couldn't help but let the salty sweet tears fall down her cheeks.

            The happiness she feels beams throughout Kevin's face, looking into his green orbs reminiscing about their past. Alysson didn't think of ending here in a church yet she's grateful to have met someone like Kevin. In front of the altar she awaits, in front of the priest preceding. As he preaches the verse she reads, about love and everything in between. The droplets from her eyes refuse to stop rolling down, as Kevin announces his vows. The same words of love she received from him, at the park that saw it all. The night he knelled before her, the night he confessed his love for her. A vow that will never be hers. In front of the altar as Alysson can see, Kevin and his beloved to be. The agony, pain and sadness she sets aside to witness and be happy. The night Kevin proposed not for Alysson but, for a peer of hers that Kevin loves. Their wedding sending waves of despair and grief inside but, it brings her joy as he is happy.


            As the ceremony ends with the ringing of the bells, is a start or a new chapter of her life. A life where he would no longer exist in her life.

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