Everlasting Shadow - Entry #1 in Writings

 Eddie Brant sat quietly in his room listening to the raindrops striking the roof above, the patter like little heartbeats calming his soul.  Eddie had always found the sound of running water calming, and boy did he need that calm tonight like no other night.  Terra, the lone light in his dark life, had broken his heart into thousands of pieces mere hours ago.  Eddie sat in his bed, hunched over as if he could protect himself from the truth of the situation.  The world was cruel.  It always had been but Eddie had always had Terra there to hold the world back.  Now, all he had left of her were the pieces of his heart that jumbled around inside his body.  Where they went, he could feel traces of her presence like some ethereal hand tracing lines along his body.  There, the brush of her lips against his while her hand ran through his blonde hair and down to his shoulders.  The feel of her body pressed against his as they embraced.  The contours of her back underneath his fingertips as they flitted along every memorized inch of her skin.  All just fading memories floating away like a warm breath on a cold winter day.  The analogy was not lost on Eddie, because that is exactly how he felt: cold.  Dead inside, like nothing existed beyond the feel of the comforter beneath him and the sound of the raindrops.  No future.  Nothing.
 Eddie still remembered the first time he had seen her, standing next to her friend at the airport.  He had met Terra online, as he was wont to do.  Eddie was painfully shy all through his childhood and early teenage years.  As such, he took to the computer, finding chat rooms where he could express his feelings and interest without the possibility of being rejected face to face.  It was in one of these chats that he met Terra, ironically a chat room specifically for shy people.  Eddie and Terra started talking and hit it off.  They found they had alot in common apart from the shyness.  A fondness of games of all kinds, a love of the outdoors, and a certain sarcastic wit usually directed at the people at their schools they felt had everything handed to them.  They were kindred spirits and they spent most of their free time talking, first exclusively on the computer, then also on the phone.  They had been speaking to each other for two years when Terra's mother was set to be transferred by her company to Boston, a short drive from Mistcastle, Eddie's hometown.  Eddie, in a rare bold move, decided to fly to Charlotte to help Terra with packing and saying goodbye to her friends.  And to finally meet Terra for the first time.  To say that her pictures did little justice would be a vast understatement.
 His first sight of her, standing there and waiting for him, made him forget how to breathe.  It wasn't until he felt lightheaded that he remembered his need for oxygen.  The sight of her was enough to sustain him, no need for food or drink.  His eyes drank in her features.  Her long, ebony hair that cascaded halfway down her back.  Her freckles, so many of them it seemed from a distance that she just had a tan.  When she turned, he saw her smile, and he was done.  He knew he would need nothing else the rest of his life.  That smile would be the first thought in the morning and the last memory as he faded to sleep.  The way it made her freckles stand out even more just melted him in place.  The only sight that could stop him from looking at that smile was his first look at her big, beautiful hazel eyes.  He knew he would spend the rest of his life lost in those eyes.  He was hooked.  No other girl would ever exist to him and she was his.  Eddie stood by the baggage claim staring as his bag passed him by once, twice, three times.  People started to give him funny looks as he stood there rooted, grinning like an idiot.  Suddenly, a small child ran into him and knocked him out of his trance - and almost out of his shoes.  Realizing where he was, Eddie grabbed his bag off the carousel and started walking toward Terra, trying to jump start his brain, searching for the first words he would say to her.  Eddie crossed the terminal and stopped a couple of feet from Terra.  
 "So, come here often?"  Smooth, Eddie thought to himself sarcastically as Terra searched out the voice she knew so well...

That is it for now. If anyone has comments or constructive criticism, I am more than willing to listen and make adjustments. If you have read this, thank you very much for your time and more will be coming in the future. Eventually, I will get to the meat of the story. This is all just background. PS- I did not realize that setting this stuff to the side would cause lines to end mid-word. Sorry about that.