"Hey, are you alright?" Hanna asked, letting herself into Caleb's apartment. "You seemed pretty serious on the phone." She walked into the kitchen, where he was sitting on the counter, tears in his eyes. "Are you alright?" Caleb shook his head no, and Hanna cupped his face with her hands. "What happened?"
"I'm moving to Ravenswood," Caleb said, biting his lip. And Hanna's arms fell limp at the thought of being apart from Caleb. She nodded, the corners of her mouth tugging down.
She turned around, and closed her eyes, willing herself not to sob. "B-But I don't know, w-why do y-you have to leave me." Hanna cried, her tears falling at the thought of no Caleb.
"Hey, hey." She didn't look at him. And she didn't turn around when he placed a hand on her arm. She bent over, holding her stomach, as she breathed through her nose, not wanting to cry, but miserably failing. She let out a sob, but shook Caleb's arms off her. "I will never forget you, and that's a promise. And, I will always love you," he said, and her tears fell even more, and his tears fell. They fell like a god damn waterfall. "You. You, h-have turned my l-life around in the best way possible. You-You are the person who encouraged me to go to Cali, y-you are the person who persuaded me to give my Dad a second chance. You ar-are my everything, H-Hanna." He stuttered out. He didn't want to leave her, but his Dad was his legal guardian now, and he was moving to Ravenswood, and Caleb was expected to go there as well. Away from Hanna.
And, he didn't want to be away from Hanna.
"I'll always love you too." Hanna whimpered. "And, I really wanted a happy ending for us."
"I did too, but it doesn't mean we're over. I-I want to see you again. And, I want to be able to call you mine again, and I don't care if you're dating someone or I am, or if you're engaged or I am. I'll fight for you."
"Really. Because in a few years, I'll just be that girl who you had sex in a tent with. I'll be that girl with baggage you had to look after, because she couldn't go a day without getting in fucking trouble." Hanna shouted.
"You'll always be more than just some girl who I had sex in a tent with. You'll be the girl who I love." Caleb shouted. "You'll be the girl who is the most amazing person I have ever met, and I will never stop loving you. You are my world, and I'll never forget you." Caleb sniffed, tears clouding his vision.
"Then why are you leaving me?" Hanna screamed, clutching her heart, she swore she heard it break. He breathed in, running his hands through his hair.
"I have too. I don't want too, but I have too."
"After everything we've been through. After everything we've done for each other l I can't believe this is how this is how it would end." He sighed, his mouth in a permanent frown. "You kept on saying that I was the best thing that ever happened to you, but if that was true then why are you leaving me."
"I don't want too. But, it's my Dad, Hanna."
"But, I thought I was your whole world. You even said so, you said that I wasn't a star, that I was your whole god damn sky. And, you said you would never break my heart, and I believed you." Hanna screamed, tears falling from her eyes. He raised his hand to wipe them away, but she smacked his hand away. Both their mouths were permanent frowns, and tears were falling from their eyes like waterfalls.
"I never want to hurt you." He said.
"You should've already thought about that when you decided. I used to think of you as the person who would never hurt me. In any way. We talked about going to college together. We talked about our future. That we would have a big white wedding. That we would have three kids, we would live in a big house. But, you were now obviously just leading me on."
"I was never leading you on, Hanna."
"Yeah, well, I gotta get going." Hanna said, not wanting to kiss him, knowing she'll want more. And she can't.
And she won't.
She never would.
Unless it would be some great miracle.
"Can't we say good bye?" He asked, his voice weak, broken, and defeated.
Because he had just lost the love of his life. He couldn't believe he agreed to moving, Hanna was the most special thing in his life.
He kicked the kitchen counter, crying.
"No, because it will make it too more god damned harder than it already is." Hanna shouted, grabbed her purse and walked to the door.
"I love you Hanna." Caleb said, and it reminded her when he was leaving for California.
But, this time it was for real.
And he wasn't coming back for her this time.
"I love you too." Hanna said, her hand on the door handle.
"Bye Hanna." He said, and then it became real. That they were over. What were the chances that they would meet again in America? It was huge. And, then she left. She didn't say good bye, because she'd collapse right there, burst into tears, and beg him not to leave. It was his life, his decision.
She couldn't stop him.
Right?
She drove to Spencer's, and then came in through the back where Spencer was typing furiously on her keyboard for some sort of essay. Spencer looked up, and rushed to her sobbing friend. Hanna collapsed into Spencer, and then Spencer took her up to her room, and Hanna cried in her lap until she fell asleep. And, Spencer cancelled her date with Toby.
Sisters before misters, right?
While Caleb, was on the floor, drinking a bottle of vodka, and alone. And he was crying. The lights were off, music was on, curtains were shut, and he was thinking: How he could ever let her go; how he could've even thought about moving without her; and what she was doing right now.
But, maybe they would meet again, and maybe they will.
In four years' time.
That is.
So, this is my first chapter, to my new Haleb story, Four years. This was, hands down one of the saddest chapters I've ever written. Tears were falling onto my keyboard, literally. Hope you like the rest of this story.
Bye Dolls