toastylovesyou

the boy leaves in a week. 10 days, to be exact. he's lived all around the word. indonesia, canada, mainland usa, italy, japan. each country a chapter in his lifetime. and he's just about to turn the page on the tiny oceanic speck that is oahu. and the even tinier speck that is me. i don't want to be some dog-eared page he's afraid to turn back to. i want him to come back for me. "4 years from now," i said, "will you come back for me?" he looks sad. "i'll try." the instability in those words is numbing. he knows that coming back for me, having a relationship, will make things much harder. for him. he has a lot of things going