Everything But You

<p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Speak now or forever hold your peace.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I hate that part in a wedding where everyone waits on pins and needles to see if someone has a reason why the couple shouldn't get married.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>So when I ran into my high school sweetheart and found out that she was engaged I said my peace before she ever walked down the aisle.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Shauna and I crossed paths when I went to Las Vegas for work and sharing one meal with her was enough for me to remember why no other woman has even come close to affecting me the way she did.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But then her fianc�� showed up surprising us both and I thought I'd lost her for good.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Every dream of our future was sucked from me once more because this wasn't the first time she slipped through my fingers. At nineteen she made decisions that tore us apart and I was too stubborn to understand why back then.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But it turns out my twin brothers aren't stupid after all when they convinced me to take one last shot to win her back.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>So I flew back to Vegas intent on stopping her wedding and telling her how I feel but it turns out history was damned to repeat itself again because she walked down the aisle anyway.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Or so I thought.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Because six weeks later she shows up at my parents' house for a job and there's one thing that's noticeably different on her-there's no ring on her left hand.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I saw my future with her.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>I know that's what I still want.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But it's hard to face the past when the future is uncertain too.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Can we heal the hurt? Can we find our way back to each other?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>And most importantly can I finally tell her: I had everything but you.</span></p>