A Night of Selfless Love

As I stood near the door of our home, I looked across the room at my beautiful Emily. She was sitting on the bed in one of her dresses, she had just finished brushing her hair and now it cascaded down over her shoulders and back. Her eyes were closed, but I could see that she was gazing off into the distance, thinking.

I looked down at the piece of paper in my hand. It was a letter to Emily. I took my hand up to my chin and began to rub it as I thought about how to start this letter to Emily.

"Dear Emily," I said out loud, "how do I begin?"

My heart fluttered as I heard Emily's soft voice reply, "You're stalling."

I turned around and looked into her bright blue eyes. "Yes," I sighed, "that too."

Emily smiled softly and stood up from the bed. She walked over to me and placed her hands on my shoulder. She leaned in close to my ear and whispered quietly, "You know what you have to say." We stood there for a moment, our faces lightly touching as she looked into my eyes with a slight glimmer of sadness in hers. Finally she pulled away and then ran one hand through my hair. Then she turned around and walked back to the bed where she sat down again.

I stared at her for a second before finally breaking away from her gaze and looking down at the letter once more. "Let's see..." I muttered under my breath again as I considered what exactly to write next in this letter to Emily.

"Well," I continued aloud, "I guess we both know why you're here." After a moment of silence passed between us, but still no response came from Emily, I continued speaking, "Your mother wanted you married off, so she sent you here so that we could 'get to know each other'. But all along...you know..." My voice trailed off as I thought more deeply about what Emily knew about myself and about her mother's true intentions for sending her here. However there was no way for me to share any of those thoughts with Emily now, so instead I just sighed again and shook my head slowly before turning around and walking over towards the door of our home once more. Besides that though, I didn't have much else written on that piece of paper anyway; therefore it wasn't like there was much more for me to say anyway. So instead of continuing to speak out loud while standing at the door, I decided it would probably be better if I just left that piece of paper on the table near the door instead so that when Emily is ready she can read it all by herself whenever she wishes to do so.

So with that decision made in my mind as well as with what little thought process had actually been put into writing this letter anyways (as well as with only half a thought going into what exactly it was that would be written on this piece of paper), I turned around once more after reaching the door and picked up the sheet off of the table where it had been sitting since early this morning when Emily's mother had dropped them off at our doorstep after returning from wherever it was that she had taken her daughter yesterday afternoon after having arrived here at our home late last night with Emily following behind her carrying two suitcases full of clothes for herself plus whatever else it is that women need nowadays during their time spent away from their home (including underwear apparently...although Im not sure how anyone can look at someones underwear without seeing anything except for maybe an initial or something at best). Anyway though...wherever they went today after arriving here yesterday evening is irrelevant now because they are gone now anyway and wont be back until later tonight when they will return here just long enough to collect their belongings before leaving again late tonight so they can continue their journey back home (and likely not come back again until they decide its time for their daughter to leave again). And thats why Im standing here right now holding this piece of paper in front of me because Im writing a letter which will explain everything that happened while they were gone (all wrapped up nice and neat) in hopes that they will read this letter before sending their daughter away yet again...something which is apparently normal these days among people who live far apart from each other (for whatever reason). So since Im standing here right now writing this letter explaining things which happened while they were gone...well obviously Im not going anywhere either because obviously Im not going anywhere until Emily gets back here as well (which hopefully will be soon because Im getting pretty tired after all this waiting around). So....yeah....thats basically what happened today: nothing much has happened since early this morning when Emily's mother returned here with her after dropping them off last night....until now anyway when its nearing sunset outside (meaning its getting dark outside)....and its roughly three hours past noon now meaning its nearing lunch time which means its time for me to eat some food if Im going to make it through another day without eating anything all day long...but clearly thats not happening right now because obviously Im waiting around for Emily instead since Im standing here staring at a blank sheet of paper trying desperately hard but failing miserably at getting something worthwhile written onto it while waiting endlessly for someone who hasn't arrived yet despite being promised that she would be home by now.....since obviously none of this makes any sense whatsoever....so yeah....that pretty much sums everything up today: nothing important happened during the daytime hours today...or if something did happen it doesn't seem like anything important happened anyways because otherwise surely whoever was involved wouldn't have waited until nighttime before showing up here or else those who were involved wouldnt have waited so long after sunrise before doing what needed to be done or whatever might have needed doing.....and hells bells...I'm starting to ramble again aren't i? Well whatever....lets just get on with things shall we? Yeah....thats probably best seeing as how this entire situation kindof pisses me off anyways given how long we've been waiting around for something/someone who hasn't even arrived yet.....but like i said earlier...nothing important happened during the daytime hours today anyways so whatever happens tonight or tomorrow will most likely still be irrelevant regardless whether or not i eat anything today or not..........so yeah......lets get on with things then shall we?