Forever: Chapter 13
The reason Valerie left him, for Timothy, faded in importance as the days passed. The only important thing was that she wasn't there with him. When he was thinking about her, he always imagined her happy with that guy who he met in London. He was afraid that she had already erased him from her memory, as if he had never existed and had never been a part of her life. But why couldn't he do the same? If she could be happy without him, why couldn't he be happy without her? How wrong he was! If only he knew the truth, if only he knew about Valerie's fight for her life in the past six months, and if only he knew that the suffering caused by the disease was nothing compared to how much she suffered from being without him. Right now, she needed him more than ever. She needed his voice to comfort her and tell her that everything was going to be all right. Valerie needed him to put his hand on her shoulder and let her know that he'd always stay by her side, no matter what