Kept Me Waiting

The sidewalk was cold under my legs, and I pulled my jacket tighter
around myself. A breath of cool air swept up under my sleeves, and a
trail of goosebumps followed. I shuddered slightly, clenching my teeth
and tightening my fists against the cold. There was a dense humidity in
the air, and delicate curls began forming from my once pin straight
hair. As I ran my fingers through it once more, it felt soft against my
rough hands, chapped from the breeze. I leaned a bit forward from my
seat on the concrete barrier seperating the farm from a long rural
road, imagining your old beat up Chevy rumbling down it, throwing bits
of pebbles and mud as you went. I could nearly hear the decrepid engine
rumbling and hissing from under your ill painted hood. I remembered
sitting for hours on that hood, listening to you strum you guitar
absent mindedly. I would stare at you, with your shaggy blonde hair
being blown around your face, which had always framed it well, giving
your innocent complexion a slight roughness.

I stared down the empty road for a minute, finally coming to the
conclusion you weren't driving down it, and leaned back on the barrier.
It had been nearly an hour now, and while I knew I ought to be getting
back inside, I couldn't bring myself to leave. Something in my head
told me "just one more minute, he'll be coming home. Just give it one
more minute..." My mind had been whispering it repeatedly for a year,
every day driving me to sit outside my house along the barrier, staring
down that road that seemed to be eternally empty, devoid of life. I
could swear I had never seem anything besides dust ever move on that
road. Since you'd gone, everything worth appreciating had died. My very
being, it seemed, was gone forever. I could feel the breeze brush
silently across my cheek, and I closed my eyes, wishing it were you. I
sat still, relishing the moment, then tucked my legs underneath me and
stood, taking one last look down the road.

For a fleeting second I could see your beat up Chevy rumbling down the
road...