Title: Three Reasons
Summary: Neither wanted to say it to the other first because each word was reason enough why they shouldn't be together.
Disclaimer: Whatever. I'm so not in the mood for this. I don't own it, 'kay?
I
Reason number one: Look out for yourself before anything or anyone else.
They were selfish. They only thought about themselves, only looking for something to benefit them.
What would they get from this anyway? Sex? Brief moments of happiness before heartbreak?
It would never be enough.
They would never, could never be equals. Not when they both always need to have the upper hand in everything they do.
Nobody had ever managed to control him; he would not let her be the first.
She had worked so hard to climb this far; she was not going to let him pull it all out from underneath her.
They would never put themselves out there first, because maybe, just maybe, things would not go their way this time. And they both needed to get their way; no compromises, no sharing.
But there is no I in love, so it would never work.
Love
Because what was love anyway? Being attached to one another, bound, trapped?
They definitely did not need that.
They had grown up seeing what love had done to other people. It destroyed them.
His father had never stopped loving his mother. He had never loved him.
Her father really had loved her mother; he just loved Roman more. You could never say it had been a happy marriage.
Reason number two: love hurts.
And if there's one thing they both can not stand, it is being hurt.
You
He hated her need to turn him into the gentleman he would never be.
She hated the way that there would always be that small niggling worry at the back of her mind. Could she trust him?
He hated the thought that if someone came along who was old money or blue-blooded, she might drop him faster than she had on the night of Cotillion.
She hated the way he made her lose control.
And everything they hated about each other proved it; everybody knows hate is the opposite of love.
Reason number three: And in this case, opposites most definitely do not attract.
I Love You
But then again, when had they ever listened to reason?