Hug

All she ever wished for was a hug.

But she could never say it out loud until she reached the breaking point.

She finally managed to formulate the words, with a shaky, hesitant voice,

“Can you...please...give me...a hug?”

He looked at her as if she just said the weirdest thing anyone can ever say.

“Why?” he asked.

“Never mind,” she brushed off her first and last request.

Little did he know what went through her mind at that time. If only he knew.

Now, alone in darkness, he desperately wanted to say,

“Can I give you a hug?”