Page 1 of Write Me For You

June

Texas

Age ten

I scribbled down the “The End” and a huge smile broke out on my face. The stars twinkled outside my window, and my heart felt so full that I wasn’t sure my chest could contain it.

I closed the notebook that now held my first-ever story. I ran my hand over the title—“Her Prince.” It was twenty whole pages about a prince and a fairy princess and their treacherous journey to save their lands. And on the way, they fell in love.

Of course they did.

They loved each other deeply, like my mama and daddy.

It was because of them that I wanted to write about love.

Mama would tell me about seeing Daddy when she was eighteen.

She said, just by looking at him, she knew he was the love of her life—the boy she was going to marry.

Daddy said the same for him, love at first sight.

I wanted that for me so badly. I wanted to meet a boy who was kind but brave, like Daddy, strong but always showed his love for me on his sleeve.

Sighing, I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to imagine the boy who I would meet, the one who would hold my heart in his hand.

I tried to think of the color of his hair, his eyes; tried to guess his name…

Nothing came to me—just a blurry outline of who he could be—but I could imagine the butterflies that would swoop in my stomach when I would see him.

A smile pulled on my lips, and when I opened my eyes, I gazed out of my bedroom window at the full moon outside.

In this part of rural Texas—a small, country town, home to only two thousand people—the thought of my future love seemed so far away, so big and out of reach.

But when I ran my hand over my notebook with my finished story inside, that dream didn’t seem so unattainable anymore.

“Love,” my mama said, “is the most powerful thing in the world. It can heal and it can grow in the most unlikely of places. When all is lost, love blooms.”

Lying back on my bed, I stared at the bright moon, its glow lighting up the neighboring ranch, and whispered, “I want a love like my mama and daddy. Please, Moon, when I’m old enough, send me someone to love.”