Chapter 18

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"Amelia," He shouts. I see him following me outside the house. I try to call Noah but a small empty bar of battery appears instead. I continue walking until he grabs me.

"Don't touch me!" I scream over the loud noise of rain. I begin to race across the street but he catches my arm spinning me around.

"Where are you going?"

I glance around the strong rain helplessly. My body shakes at the cold that cuts my skin; my clothes are frostily glued to my flesh. I blink away the tears and the raindrops that trouble my eyelashes.

I don't know what to do; what to think; what to say. My ultimate need to leave and disappear, overcome momentarily my throbbing pain. I don't care if I'll get sick, or if I won't find the way back home, I don't care about anything. Anger has been washed over me as tears run down.

"Let me drive you home," He proposes.

"Let me go," I cry jerking my arm out of his grasp.

"What are you doing here?" My inflamed pain disguises into the rage that roses to the surface, a hot, unstoppable tide.

"I came to talk to you cause I couldn't bear us being like this while you were..." I stop choking on the rainwater and tears. I push the wet heavy hair back from my face seeing the dark road. The rain explodes on the ground hitting my body.

I can't believe how much my life has changed in the last few minutes. A sob escapes from my lips and I seal my eyes that hurt. The pain is so tense that digs into me; I can't breathe despite my constant attempts. I hide my head in my hands praying I could disappear from the face of the earth completely, forever.

"Amelia," He whispers yet I hear his tender voice over my own sobs and the rain that drops on the street noisily. I look up; his clothes are clung to his skin, his hair is stick to his head yet his eyes don't sparkle. At all.

"Forgive me," His sweet yet hopeless plead causes a new wave of tears to befall from my eyes.

"Did you sleep with her?" I exclaim sobbing.

He doesn't answer. He just closes his eyes letting the water of the endless rainfall wash away his pain; I just wish it can erase me too. The raindrops crush upon his skin but he doesn't seem to mind. It doesn't hurt him. It welcomes it with open arms. I shut my lids feeling my body weaken.

"Yes," He says. The pain crushes through me but it doesn't surprise me as much as it would. My usual numbness has overtaken my body like the night I found out I was a part of his game. I grasp my head as chilly tears torment me.

"Forgive me," His eyes, surrounded by lashes darkened with rainwater, are impossibly blue and my heart breaks again at the sight. Pain. I can see it in his glassy eyes I know as well as my own, in the bruised shadows under them. The sincerity that radiates off of them lets me know the truth. It's over.

"Am I supposed to forgive you for not loving me anymore?" I cry out. "For not wanting me? For choosing her over me? For the pain, you put me through?" I can't breathe as if the oxygen has left the eath. I feel like a part of my heart has been ripped out of my chest causing me not to take enough air. The part he has given me to find the strength to move on. And now, he has abandoned me cracked all over again.

"I can't be with you," He mutters, softy. My stomach flips and I sniffle tugging at my hair. "I can't be with you,"

"I..."

"It's not your fault," He stops me. His tender voice scares me.

"How is it not?"

"It's not your fault,"

Despite the frosty ocean of raindrops; I can sense the feverish heat that comes off of him. It slowly evaporates as if he's dying too on the inside. Rainwater is falling from his eyelashes and down his cheeks like tears. I wish he was crying like I'm, like the two times we got our separated ways. This time though, his eyes are blank. Nothing evident on them; even the love I thought he had for me.

"It's not your fault I ruin everything,"

"How could you do this to us?" I shout. "How could you?"

"I can't be what you need and that's the only way you'll stay away from me," He stands still, frozen as I collapse in tears and shudders. He doesn't get affected by anything; our fight, our break up, the rain, the coldness that matches the one in my shattered heart.

"You slept with her to make me hate you? Is that why you did this?"

"You should run from me," He says and I blanch. I miss a few steps tripping on my own feet.

"What?"

"You called me your angel when I did nothing for you. I can't be what you want me to be. I can't be the man you want. I'm everything they said I would be." I gape at him. No words come out of my swollen lips. I blink away the raindrops.

"Don't let me be the person you wish you never knew," He begs. His whisper is so soft that I almost didn't hear it. I have never seen him like this. His eyes are empty; he has nothing on the inside.

"Don't do this." I plea. "That's not you,"

"You should go,"

His words hang on the drenched air between us before they find their way to my heart and stab it three times.

"Is that what you have to say to me after all we have been through? Corbyn, I love you!" I scream. "You can't stand here telling me this. You love me, I know you do."

"Run," He repeats and I shake my head.

"Why?"

"Because I'm falling for you," I gasp listening to the static rhythm sound of rain. I try to speak but he stops me as if he doesn't want to hear a single word I will utter.

"I'm an explosion. I'm your destruction. Don't you see it?" He shouts. "We are wrong. A mistake,"

"A mistake?" I ask. "I love you and you tell me it's a mistake?"

"I'm a monster." He admits. "I'm wrong for you. There's no point..."

"In what? Being with each other? Trying to be better? Since we met you have changed me more than anyone else did. I don't recognize myself anymore and I know you feel it too. You're different now,"

"I'm not. I'm the same boy that used you for the money. I'm fucked up. I don't think you can bear those scars." I shut my lashes feeling the water sting my eyes. My clothes are so heavy as they drag me down. I'm terrified. I fear I will die here in front of the boy I don't know as I thought. I imagining myself kneeling to the ground and letting all the pain go; leaving my last breath and go meet my parents again.

"Please don't let me win this, I'll only hurt you." I look up at his blurry form through my tears and rain.

I don't have the energy to say anything. He won't hear me. But even if he did, I have got nothing to say. God knows, I gather all my strength to speak but I can't. I'm frightened.

The sense of utter doom creeps into my heart which pounds painfully. It's over this time. We are wrong for each other. Nothing but a mistake in time that the centuries will finally erase. We are a mistake. Nothing.

My lips split for a few moments before I let the words out.

"I hope that after years you'll remember this," I whisper. I clench my phone in my palm forcing myself. Tears slip again as a knot threatens, rising in my dry throat. "I loved you with everything I had since the moment you first kissed me and I never stopped, even the night I found out. Whatever you plan, I hope it was worth it,"

I squeeze my eyes locked walking away. Sobs and shudders sway my body. I cover my mouth as I run away. The rain washes away my tears while my legs move rapidly. I don't stop; I can't look back now for I know it will kill me. I don't want to see the look on his fuzzy eyes. I won't be able to forget it and I need to. I need to forget. I can't be the weak girl he met anymore. And there's only one way to overcome this.

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