Rejection.
Her chin trembled a second before she started sobbing. “I can’t…can’t do this anymore,” she choked out, and then shook her head at me. “I can’t do this anymore.” Her crumpled expression spoke volumes, and only added to the weight of her aching words.
I stepped back and stared at her. She couldn’t dowhatanymore?
But even as I asked myself that question, I knew exactly what she meant. I could read her like an open book; I couldfeeleverything she was trying to tell me.
She didn’t want me anymore; she didn’t want a relationship with me.
And the reason behind it? Aubrey and her cheap stunt.
Kenzie walked past me and joined Zaira in the ambulance. She looked at me and mouthed ‘I’m sorry’, just as the doors closed and the ambulance sped away from me.
As I continued to watch its fading lights, I let my shoulders fall forward and a lone tear slip down my eye.
Was it really the end of our chapter? Was this really the full stop that would conclude it all?
Was our love not strong enough to pass the test? WasInot enough to come back to after facing the dark?
I didn’t even have to turn around to know that the guys had seen the little interaction Zaira and I had had, which is why when Kenneth and Shane tried to pull me away from the road and into one of their cars, I didn’t stop them. Not that I had an ounce of drive in me to do anything after Zaira had quite literally crushed my very soul into the palm of her hand.
Not when she’d decided to give up on me and stomped on my belief in us so easily.
And especially not when I had nothing to offer myself but doses of overpowering numbness and isolation.
If only I could just make hersee.
But you can’t, can you?said a voice inside my head.
No.
No, I can’t.
