Disclaimer: This is a complete work of fiction. There's no resemblance to actual persons, places and / or events. If so, it is utterly not intended. I do not claim to own City Girl Life or anything to do with it at all. Character exposure in this story is completely non-profit and just for fun. I own nothing but my own plot-bunnies. Thank you.
Summary:
Life works in mysterious ways, so does love. Can two passionate lovers come to terms with 'so-long' for now, instead of 'goodbye' forever? Will it really benefit them in the end result?
Warning(s):
Nothing too intense, light angst, perhaps coarse language.
Genre(s):
Romance, Drama
Pairing(s):
Aunt Kate / Chef Gilden
Rating:
T
Author's Note:
Hello! I've been wanting to add another story to my list for City Girl Life and I've been bouncing this idea around in my head for quite awhile, so I figured on a whim let's do it and here it is, :) thanks for reading!
"Run away with me," He grabbed onto her delicate arms, the last thing he could bring himself to do, was let her escape again. "I - I know I don't have much, we can get a place together - we can raise a family and be happy. I'll go to school, or work! Work, and we will be the happiest little family on the face of this earth! Just, run away with me, please. . ."
She gasped, "What?!" It was too much to take in all at once.
His eyes poured into hers for a sign, any sign at all that she felt the same way. "Please Kate, you're all I have and I'm not going to lose you."
Her long hair blew wildly in the New York City wind, it somewhat resembled her inner thoughts. Whirling around, confusion on her left - decisive hold up on her right. Which was the correct path to take? She wanted to be with him more than anything, but she couldn't. They just couldn't be together - she couldn't let him give up everything just for her.
"I love you," he told her. "my heart's never felt truer emotions Kate."
"Gilden," she wrapped her arms around him and his muscular build one last time. "please, you know we can't stay together."
"We can! If it's my family? Consider them gone! There's only you and I, you're my everything."
She shook her head, "As you are mine, but we can't be so selfish my sweet." She told him, running her ivory hand through his deep black hair. "We're not the only ones to think of here. T-the rest of our lives, that's a long time. . ."
He knew with every passing moment, she'd be out of his life - rare that she'd ever come back. Not after what they'd been through. But how could she give up? "Kate, we're giving up on us?"
"No Gilden, we're not giving up. We're doing what's right. I can't have you chose me over your own flesh and blood. I love you too, but it can't happen that way. If your parents disapprove, they disapprove and I'm not going to alienate you from them. You'll need them before you'll ever need me darling. Please, don't make this hard. We'll get over it with some tears, maybe a few years but you have to realize, it's the bigger picture we have to look at."
He hugged her tightly as he saw the very train she was to board in the distance. "Kate. . ." he took in her lovely scent just one more time, another thing about her that would soon be nothing but a memory.
"Don't think of this as goodbye," she whispered. "no think of this, as so-long. I'll see you again soon." With a kiss upon his cheek, the screeching train came to a halt - conductors shouting orders, dust all around - they were about to let one another go, for better or worse.
"So-long, my dear Kate." He said softly, caressing her cheek, knowing he wouldn't be able to do so for a long time.
"So-long, my dear Gilden." If she didn't walk away now, she knew it would only prolong the hurt. It was the last thing she wanted to do to him. This hurt more than enough.
He watched as her classic black pumps walked down the station platform, hopping up the stairs and giving him one more wave 'so-long' before the doors shut and his first, strongest love - was on the other side, riding off into the sunset without him.
How he'd ever go on without her, he wasn't sure.
She wasn't sure how she would live her days without him, but with his best interests in her heart - she'd do her best. She'd have to, or die trying.
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