“What?”
“I won’t do something like that again, I swear. I’ll never go anyplace else. I want to stay with you, to take care of you and…”
“Do you not understand me? I don’t want that! I don’t want someone to take care of me or someone who wants to save me. I just….I just want…”
I sit on the sidewalk and Jason motions the taxi driver to go. Then he kneels down in front of me and takes my face in his hands.
“Alex, look at me.”
I raise my eyes to his and now they are sweet and full of love.
“I can’t save you, it’s true. But I can love you. That I can do.” He smiles and I melt in his arms.
“Let me love you.”
And as I sob, I rest my head against his chest, drowning his sweatshirt and in defeat I say to his shoulder: “It’s the same thing.”
