Yesterday

• Manie Li, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2010

Yesterday can be a moment gone forever. Yesterday was the day we could have done better. Why couldn’t I choose a better path instead of falling away like a dead leaf? If I had apologized, I might still be together with him, but I was too naive. Today means a fresh start, yesterday means a lost moment. I want yesterday to come back so I can change it. When one falls in love, you must savor the moments so yesterday won’t be regretted. You know that when you spent your time with each other, yesterday was beautiful. I want yesterday back so much so I can see his smiling face again. I want to grab yesterday and place it back into my life. Yesterday must be cherished like family so you remember that today will soon become yesterday. I promise to love today as much as I loved him so I will never regret anything. He didn’t want me to leave him and he didn’t want to hurt me, but I made him say those words, do those things. I wish I had told him the truth about me that I wasn’t who I seemed to be. It’s my entire fault for being such a liar. If I wasn’t me, would he still be with me or am I being foolish? I could have prevented a person from dying. I could have studied for a test. I wasted yesterday. It’s so precious to me that I took advantage of it and wasted my yesterday like tomorrow. I’m lucky to even have a yesterday. When we started going out he told me that yesterday is something you can’t prevent from leaving. If you live life as it is now, you will think about yesterday a lot. If we’re together forever, there will always be yesterday but we’ll love today as well. Those words told me that he really did love me I shouldn’t ever make him feel horrible like I did today. I’m a hypocrite but I’ll restore our relationship someday. I only have one wish, a single wish, which will never be granted. I want to go back to yesterday and tell him the truth and make up, so I beg. Please come back! Please come back to me... yesterday, because yesterday is the only way I can forgive myself for being me. I’m a failure as a girlfriend and as a human being so please bring me to yesterday, because yesterday I would never have spoken like this.