really good!! what happens next??

oh man.

this was amazing.

and sad.

i loved it. keep writing.

whoa...heavy scene dude! for real!
this is some very deep, deep stuff here folks. the kindah thing people really feel [perhaps only really ever do in stories like these, with that letter and all, but the emotions at least are real].
the emotions are real, but the scenario is so much like a richard gere/julia roberts movie from the 80s or 90s [which is where most people of the writer's generation would have learned of love in the first place eh?].
writing of real, unrequited love has never been easy since Shakespeare kindah set the bar too high with romeo and juliet. Baz Luhrmann's direction of leo and claire in the 1996 movie made all the edwardian english more accessable and real to this generation and so now, anyone attempting this story line is in for somewhat of a challenge.
but lets look at how the challenge was met:
caitlyn is real enough, though not really developed as a character, but in her reminiscence we get a sense of who she is.
peter...he is only ever named once, perhaps as a result of the way caitlyn tries to distance herself from her feelings from him in her mind, preferring to reflect only on the essence of the nice feeling of love. but he too is just a vague character, the grist for perhaps too many lonely nighttime fantasies.
the other woman, also an anathema, a specter that hangs to familiar in the back of caitlyn's mind and way too much in the middle of her cross hairs. but never truly hated in a real sense.
put them all together: you get a dainty, well written snapshot of the mind of a woman too shy to admit her feelings for her closest friend. a story of perhaps every other single new yorker she will meet in her new life which she just started.
interesting, a good read but sadly leaves too many unanswered questions to really satisfy the curious. but as writing practice, a very tight storyline that can be developed into something of a romance novel.