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(Based on the song by The Spill Canvas)
Self-Conclusion
He stood at what felt like the end, and took a deep breath. If there was ever one lesson he learned to be true, it was that nothing in this life came easy. This would be easy; too easy, in fact. Perhaps that's why he turned away then, deciding to forget his notion completely.
He almost smiled.
Fade in, start the scene
Enter beautiful girl
But things are not what they seem
As we stand at the edge of the world
Then he saw her, doing the same thing he had been, perhaps pondering the very same notion. He turned to her, but she didn't even glance his way. Her dark black hair danced in the moonlight, her lips in a thin line, and her eyes, oh those eyes! The brightest green that he had ever seen. She was perhaps the most beautiful person he had ever laid eyes upon. But it was not her beauty that had caught him.
It was then that she finally paid him any mind.
"Excuse me, sir,
But I have plans to die tonight
Oh, and you are directly in my way
And I bet you're going to say it's not right"
Her voice was soft, but so full of emotion. He was startled by her straightforward attitude, but perhaps it was the moment that made it easy to be honest. If you were ready to die, what did you care of what others thought of you? For some people, it would be the only moments in there life that they would be honest, be real.
He looked at her, and finally spoke.
"Excuse me, miss
But do you have the slightest clue
Of exactly what you just said to me
And exactly who you're talking to?"
She stared at him.
She said, "I don't care, you don't even know me"
He said, "I know but I'd like to change that soon, hopefully"
Where had that come from? He wasn't even sure himself. All he knew was that for once in his life, he had meant something so much it hurt. It was something he had only decided in that moment, yet it felt so right to him, it felt so true.
Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets
Her eyes had softened a bit, as she considered his words.
"You make it sound so easy to be alive
But tell me, how am I supposed to seize this day
When everything inside me has died?"
He said, without missing a beat, "Trust me, girl
I know your legs are pleading to leap
But I offer you this easy choice-
Instead of dying, living with me"
She said, "Are you crazy? You don't even know me."
And he replied, "I know, but I'd like to change that soon hopefully"
Yeah, we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed to act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets
She opened her mouth, as if to speak, but he reached out for her hand, and spoke softly,
"I would be lying if I said that things would never get rough, And all this cliché motivation, it could never be enough
I could stand here all night trying to convince you
But what good would that do?
My offer stands, and you must choose."
Silence for a moment, then she spoke,
"All right, you win, but I only give you one night
To prove yourself to be better than my attempt at flight
I swear to god if you hurt me I will leap
I will toss myself from these very cliffs
And you'll never see it coming"
He half smiled, then remembered himself, and with a serious tone, he spoke,
"Settle, precious, I know what you're going through
Just ten minutes before you got here I was going to jump too"
She looked like she didn't believe him, but then she smiled, as a tear rolled down her cheek. No, James Norrington did not know the name of the girl before him. But all he knew was that he might be in love, and for now, it was enough of a reason for both of them to live.
Yeah we all flirt with the tiniest notion
Of self conclusion in one simplified motion
You see the trick is that you're never supposed act on it
No matter how unbearable this misery gets….
FIN