This is the way you left me

This is the way you left me

I'm not pretending

No hope, no love, no glory

No happy ending

She had never been as happy as she was the morning of her wedding. The day dawned bright and cheery, not a cloud in the sky. She was ecstatic to be marrying her fiancé of eighteen months; at least that's what she kept telling herself. She loved the man but she couldn't help but feel that something was off. Yes he made her happy, and they were very compatible but somewhere in the back of her mind she had the slightest feeling of settling. However all her feelings of foreboding left her as she walked down the aisle at in the backyard of her mother's inn. She silently congratulated herself on the set up. With the minister facing the back, she and her fiancé could face all their guests. She saw movement out of the corner of her eye, looked up and saw, him. She felt hers eyes widen and her smile falter. She quickly replaced it but it wasn't the same. She hoped he could feel her begging him with her eyes to not make a scene. He grinned and shrugged his shoulder. Although she noted the tiniest bit of pain in his grin she felt relieved and turned back to the minister. To her shock she found she wanted to cry. That was what was missing with the man she currently stood beside. There was nothing wrong with their relationship, but there was a small part of herself that her husband would never get. A small part of her would always belong to the man sitting in the back row. When the minister asked if anyone had a reason the two should not be wed, she nearly looked at him but stopped herself before their eyes could connect. For one wild moment she wanted him to speak up, to stop the wedding to throw her over his shoulder and run away. But he said nothing, and the ceremony continued. By the time they were pronounced as man and wife she had talked herself back to the joy she had felt earlier, and convinced herself that she was happy with her husband. He was a good man, and she would be happy with him. As they walked back towards the inn for the reception she looked around and saw him driving away. She fought the urge to run him down and leave with him; instead she stared after his car while he drove away taking with him their final chance at a happy ending.