# I miss you...

*A short story by DEAD artist.*

By [R.I.?.](https://paragraph.com/@riq) · 2025-07-03

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He woke up in the middle of the night,  
blinking and wondering...

What's that on the wall?!  
Why don't I remember?!  
Is it a painting?!  
Or a window?!  
Or maybe an empty frame?!  
Has it always been there?!

Doubting his sense of reality,  
he kept wondering...

Well, I don't know anymore...  
Ever since she died,  
everything started to change.

He got up and...

Hold on! Who are you?!  
And why are you describing me to myself?!

\- Well... I am you!  
You were feeling lonely,  
and told me to tell you a story, remember?

\- Well... Not really!  
But... But keep going...  
  
He got up and picked up the scissors,  
and carefully cut the flower off the bed,  
went to the window, or frame,  
and slowly let it fall into the flowing lava...

Right after touching the lava,  
the flower turned into a girl,  
and gave him a kind look...  
He, blinking and wondering,  
said: "I miss you...".  
She responded with a warm smile,  
turned around,  
and started swimming away...

\- Wait a minute! If he, I mean I, if I miss her,  
why do I cut her and let her go?!

\- Well if you don't, she won't grow back!

\- Oh! I see... I guess!  
So... So what do I do now?

\- You don't need to do anything,  
just go to bed,  
and pretend none of this happened...

\- Ok then...

He kept blinking and wondering,  
untill he fell asleep again... .

THE END.

  

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*Originally published on [R.I.?.](https://paragraph.com/@riq/i_miss_you)*