She stood in front of the house, her insides trembling. This was it. This was the moment she’d been waiting for. Everything about her life was about to change, and she was going to be with the man she loved more than anything.
They would finally be together after over a year of texting and occasionally talking on the phone. No more staring at his picture every night on her computer screen before she fell asleep, wishing and hoping he could be there holding her as she drifted off to sleep. No more wondering what it would be like to hold his hand or have him give her a great big bear hug after a long, hard day.
Everyone had made fun of her. Everyone had questioned her. But they were all wrong; they had to be. Never had she gambled so much in her life by taking everything she owned across the country to a tiny little beach town for one reason only – love.
She felt paralyzed in place, like her feet were stuck in two large blocks of cement instead of placed on the top of a non-sticky sidewalk. She couldn’t seem to get herself to move forward, to finally knock on the door and end all the suspense.
He had no idea she was coming. No idea that they were about to be together. He’d be so happy, so relieved that she was finally there in front of him. He’d said it so many times before, that he couldn’t wait to meet her, to see her, to touch her.
Yes, she was finally going to have the last laugh with her friends and family. They’d see they were all wrong, and that her romantic notions for this man who lived thousands of miles away were so much more than anyone could’ve imagined.
They’d have this amazing love story, something they could tell their kids and their grandkids. The kind of love that people write books about. It was just on the other side of that door, she thought, as she reached her hand toward the big brass knocker shaped like a seashell.
And it was just like every other amazing love story. Except for one thing - she’d never met him in real life. She had never seen him even on Skype or video chat. And right now, she prayed to God that he wasn’t just some figment of her imagination.
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