Title: Never a Mistake
Author: Tina T
Rating: PG-13 ish
Category: M/L
Summary: Liz left after EOTW.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
~~~~~ Prologue
Liz POV ~~~~~
We never planned on it. We should have known though. Together, we never could handle ourselves. We let the teenage hormones get the best of us. I guess that we just assumed that with the freedom from our teen years, we would gain freedom from those feelings too. We were wrong.
It had always been different between us. It wasn't just a hopeless teen romance. We had something, but we were both too scared to follow it. Sometimes I think that's the only thing that adulthood has freed us from. We no longer fear what we have, though now we should more than ever.
I was the one who finally ended it. I was seventeen and I had just been told that I really wasn't destined to be with the man I loved more than I had ever thought my innocent, naïve heart could. I did the only thing that I could. I ran. It was easier than I had thought. I just left. I didn't tell my parents. I didn't tell Maria. I cut the strings, and for once, I laughed in destiny's face. I gave up on trying to beat it, and I simply refused to feel the pain again.
I was in college when I met Jerry. He always took the chair beside me in English, but he didn't say a word to me for the first four months. Finally, when I dropped my pencil on the floor between us, he picked it up and we started to talk. We didn't start dating for another month. It took him two years to propose. On graduation night he pulled me from the group and slipped the ring onto my finger. I cried. We were married that summer. That was two years ago this July. I saw Max again last January.
It was so simple, and yet so amazing. It was just a grocery store. I was just out to get dinner. It was just like every night had been for months, but it was so different. It changed my life. It broke my heart. Of course, before I had no heart to break.
Author: Tina T
Rating: PG-13 ish
Category: M/L
Summary: Liz left after EOTW.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
~~~~~ Prologue
Liz POV ~~~~~
We never planned on it. We should have known though. Together, we never could handle ourselves. We let the teenage hormones get the best of us. I guess that we just assumed that with the freedom from our teen years, we would gain freedom from those feelings too. We were wrong.
It had always been different between us. It wasn't just a hopeless teen romance. We had something, but we were both too scared to follow it. Sometimes I think that's the only thing that adulthood has freed us from. We no longer fear what we have, though now we should more than ever.
I was the one who finally ended it. I was seventeen and I had just been told that I really wasn't destined to be with the man I loved more than I had ever thought my innocent, naïve heart could. I did the only thing that I could. I ran. It was easier than I had thought. I just left. I didn't tell my parents. I didn't tell Maria. I cut the strings, and for once, I laughed in destiny's face. I gave up on trying to beat it, and I simply refused to feel the pain again.
I was in college when I met Jerry. He always took the chair beside me in English, but he didn't say a word to me for the first four months. Finally, when I dropped my pencil on the floor between us, he picked it up and we started to talk. We didn't start dating for another month. It took him two years to propose. On graduation night he pulled me from the group and slipped the ring onto my finger. I cried. We were married that summer. That was two years ago this July. I saw Max again last January.
It was so simple, and yet so amazing. It was just a grocery store. I was just out to get dinner. It was just like every night had been for months, but it was so different. It changed my life. It broke my heart. Of course, before I had no heart to break.