So, I’m dead. That a fact? Damn, it’s kind a chilly up here.

No. Just almost dead. Oh, all right. It was that car crash on the 5, wasn’t it? That “John Wick is Dead” internet rumor. Symbolic assassination, someone called it. Someone trying to convince the world I was dead, and if they bought it…

Wow. They almost got away with it, didn’t they?

What’s this list? It’s got… oh. I see.

It’s a list of my regrets. What do you mean I have to…

… what do you mean I have to go back? You mean I’m not dead?

Okay, well, what’s on the list? Let’s see… hey, this is in my handwriting…

   ~~I never climbed a mountain…

Yeah, that’s a big one.

   ~~I never SCUBA dived…

Hurm.

   ~~I didn’t skydive on my 30th birthday…

Yeah. Julie even offered…

   ~~I never made her dinner…

You know, I offered, but, I didn’t really offer…

   ~~I never woke up holding her.

*ahem* This is kinda…

   ~~I never took the chance to tell her…

Okay, that’s enough. I get the point.

Yeah. I know. Well, I never asked because… well, because…

I mean, we’ve been very careful and quiet about the whole thing and I felt bringing it up would have… damaged it.

When I go back? Will I tell her? I don’t know, I mean… I don’t think I…

yeah. i will.

I’ll tell her that I’m sorry.

I’ll tell her that I’m sorry I never made her dinner.

That we never shared a sunset.

That I’ll always wonder how it feels to hold her.
Nothing more. Just… hold her.

Never knew her kiss.

I’ll tell her that…

… that there are things in this world that I don’t want to wait for the next one to find out about.

What’ll happen when I ask?

Never can tell. I may have to wait ’till the next world to find out.

Is it worth it?

 

yeah

 

So, a dinner.

And a sunset.

And a moment — just an honest moment — where the only two people in the world are us.

 

Yeah, I’ll do it. I have to.

Because right now, a “no” is better than a “perhaps.”