All your life

The bride walked down the aile towards her soon-to-be husband. His eyes filled with tears when he saw her dressed like that for the first time. Virginia smiled, it was her best friend's wedding, and she was exultant for her. Virginia had go e alone to the wedding, but she never thought it was a big deal, single people go to weddings all the time and nothing ever happens, she had told herself. She soon realized she was wrong. 

At the reception she ended up sitting st a table full of couples, she knew most of them, some were even her friends, and she talked to everyone. However, as the night advanced, she started realizing that despite being surrounded with people she was alone and she felt lonely. The loneliness was so suffocating, at one point, that she had to get out and find a quiet corner to calm down. She would be okay, she told herself, she was just a bit overwhelmed. She returned to the reception and did her best to appear normal, but the uneasiness grew to the point her heart hurt in a physical way. 

She needed to leave before she went crazy. As soon as she sat on her car she broke into tears. Would she ever feel a love like that? Would she ever love someone so much as to cry of love? Would anyone ever stare at her as if there was nothing else in the universe? Or would she die without knowing what real love felt like? Would she die without having anyone love her? She calmed down fir long enough to start the car and take the road, yet her head was somewhere else. What if she didn't deserve to be loved? What if she was the one who was sabotaging her own chances? What if she herself didn't think she was worthy of being loved? Some bright lights brought her back to the real world, the lights of a truck that crashed into her as she had changed lames without realizing so. And Virginia died without having ever felt love. Without knowing what it really was.