20 Day Challenge #15

This is prompt #17: Describe a first.

It was the first time I went to see her. She looked different, deflated, like someone had punctured a hole in her skin and drained out the energy I was so used to seeing. Her skin sagged over the hollows left behind. Everything I remembered came back to me then: the first trip we took to Florida, the way her eyes sparkled in the sunlight and her laughter flowed as easily as the wine. We were so young then, a tangle of long, tanned limbs and loudly stated ideals.We'd thought we would conquer the world together, but the world conquered us; the distance our travels drove between us was stronger than the vows we'd made to each other. Now, this brought us back together. The diagnosis, the surgery, the treatment. I don't know how long it took her to build up the courage to call me, but when she called I came. I owed her that much. But seeing here there, seeing the toll that time and illness had taken on her, I knew this trip would be my last.