Page 25 of Owen's Heart

The way you cross my heart

Sometimes Rania,

I think of you

Grasping for a fiber of you

As I cross life’s dangerous highways

Always thinking of you

Like a long walk in the countryside

Like the country girl that’s mine

Sometimes Rania,

All I can think about is you.

Sometimes,

I wish I never hurt you.

Sometimes Rania,

I want to erase the past

Sometimes,

I want to make it last

Sometimes every day,

I want to fall in love

All over again.

With our hearts all in.

Like only we can do

When we’re in love…me and you.

I sit in my lounger chair in disbelief that I just shared my song with anyone. It had only been my personal therapy whenever I longed to be with Rania.

“Whenever I couldn’t be near her, I wrote songs, poems, even a few short stories. I couldn’t be with her, so I would just pick up my pen and write a love scene for me and Rania. I did this for a long time, not sleeping with anyone else for over a year after my mistakes with Chantel.”

“It’s time to get you two back together. I was just going to talk to her about it, but after hearing your song, I think we have to be more extreme at this point. You two have to get back together,” Janae says through teary excitement.

“I want that so much. What do you have in mind? I’m down for whatever you think I should do,” I acknowledge.

“Just leave the planning to me. I’ll come up with something. Let me check my calendar. Oh, my gosh, this just seems so right. Valentine’s Day is in a week.”

“I know. Everything happened in perfect time. Mildred needing Rania to come home to help her just in time for Valentine’s Day…”

I pause and think about Mildred’s ultimate plan. She had planned her surgery so that Rania would have to be here during Valentine’s holiday. That thought makes me smile.

“It’s too perfect not to give it a shot! I’ll text you the details soon,” Janae assures me. “Stay by your phone.”

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