The Necklace

I think it was a Sunday, or maybe a Saturday. We were shopping at the local mall looking for nothing, finding everything. Telling stories, talking gossip. We decided, MaCayla, my best friend and I, that we would go into a store we normally don’t shop at, and why we decided to stop in, I’m still unsure but I’m sure glad we did.

After looking around for a minute or two, MaCayla found an eyeshadow palette in which she wanted to purchase. Standing next to the checkout counter, something caught my eye. Charms, and I mean dozens of them. As I began to look through them, the clerk noticed what I was looking at. She said to me “You can pick as many charms as you’d like and put them onto a necklace chain; Make your very own necklace.” She smiled. I was sold.

As I stood there trying to think of what I could possibly put together on this necklace, I thought of multiple things; just a simple letter “S” to represent the last name of my significant other but that didn’t feel right. My name, but not that either. My nieces name, but that felt too cliché. I started to look through the symbols, instead of the letters. I noticed an ‘&’in a rose gold metal with little fake diamonds in the center. Suddenly I knew.

I walked out of that store five minutes later with a necklace around my neck that read “M&M”. And yeah, I know, cliché right? But I didn’t care. But I never really liked my name until it stood next to his. The necklace had a rose gold tint in it with little silver diamonds surrounding the center of each letter and I loved how pretty it looked, and how pretty it made me feel.

Over the next few days I received numerous compliments on the necklace, and most people didn’t even know what it stood for, or what it represented, or how much it meant to me. Imagine if they had known that to me, it meant a partnership, it held promises, and it owned a piece of my heart, just like he does.

Over time the necklace began to lose its beauty. It started to rust and wear and the little diamonds began to fall out. I wore that thing until it was on its leg, I wore it every day, where ever I went, I never wanted to take it off and I didn’t.

Eventually the necklace was too dull to wear, so sadly I had to stop wearing it. But that doesn’t mean I don’t admire it every day. For now the necklace hangs on the rear view mirror of my car and sometimes it swings in the air and taps my windshield. It still means a lot to me even though the beauty isn’t all there, it is still just as valuable to me and it will continue to be.