Love Note

Love Note

She slipped a square of paper
into the pocket of his sweater.
When he turned around,
she was already gone.
He sat in the corner
and unfolded the letter.
It read:
“Do you know how many nights
I’ve been dreaming you would notice me?
and then yesterday you held my hand
and every part of me was alive,
for a moment in time.
I think I’ve fallen in love with you.”
She signed it with a heart.
He crumpled up the paper.
She watched with a heavy heart
as he threw it away
and walked out the door.

She was trying not to cry,
bent over her math workbook
trying her hardest to concentrate,
when a square of paper landed on her desk.
She opened it and sat there,
wiping away the tears that now rolled down her cheeks.
All the note said was
“I love you.”
That’s all it needed to say.