I'm BACK! Sorry it took me so long and its not much but its something. School is just piling up work and I need to start getting ready for finals. Yada Yada Yada, the same old excuses. I will probably have chapter quicker when school lets out. I already have some snipits in the works. There are most likely some grammatical errors and such in this chapter, but I'm doing the best I can under the circumstances. I want to say thank you to everyone who reviewed and suggested and I hope you notice I've used some of them. They are what inspired me to keep going. I would love to hear from you guys again. You are what keeps me writing (and posting). Also, I know Runo is out of character but at the same time I think that underneath Runo's tough girl exterior she is very insecure. She just lashes out to cover up her insecurities, but that this is just my opinion. Feel free to disagree.
The sound of Dan's cell phone ringing arose him from his deep slumber…sort of. Without even breaking the seals of gunk keeping his eyelids shut he felt around for his phone, after a failed attempt at talking into his action figure as he likes to call them, he found his phone. Lazily he mumbled, "Ghelloo?"
A nervous whisper replied on the other side of the line, "Dan? Can you m-meet me at our place?"
"No, I don't have any meat case." Dan's words slurred together as he felt his mind drifting back to dreams of living in Vestroia and dancing unicorns.
"No, Dan, meet me at our place." The familiar irritated tone drifted into the voice of the speaker on the other side.
"What place?" Inquired Dan slowing achieving some barring of what was going on what was being said. His mind still having trouble catching up, but then again there wasn't much improvement when he was awake.
The person the other sign heaved a large sigh, saying, "The park. Where we first met, remember?" Catching herself, she backtracked and reluctantly said, "Don't worry about, just can you get to the park in fifteen minutes?"
"Sure." Dan said before he could say another word, the girl hung up.
Nervously tapping her foot, being that Dan was late she still had time to run and change her mind. Runo just needed to keep in mind that it would be painful, heartbreaking, heart wrenchingly painful, but it is the best for everyone. Plus if Dan is going to lead her on like this she needs to reclaim the self-respect to break away from him. He would only end up shattering her heart into so many pieces that you could thread them through a needle. The sound of huffing and puffing drew Runo from her thoughts. She didn't even turn around to greet him, even after he called out her name. Runo knew if she did she would lose an ounce of courage that she had left. Coughing Runo began, "I am just going to get straight to the point. I think we should break up." She could hear him begin to interrupt her, she kept going if she stopped to her him now, she wouldn't finish. "It's just as you've said, I am not your girlfriend. It wouldn't really mean anything different if we stop viewing our time together as dates." She could feel her voice start to waver as her ankles began to buckle. She couldn't stop though, her words just started spilling out of her mouth as her voice became coarser, and "Also, now you won't have to keep explaining to people that we aren't boyfriend and girlfriend. You don't have to worry about me contradicting you anymore." Runo had said something awful things in her life, most of them towards Dan she might add. She regretted most of it, but this more than anything she wanted to rewind time and erase this from his memory, but what's done is done and may sting a little now, it would serve both of them much more in the long run. She didn't deserve to be strung along.
As he reached out to grasp her arm as he muttered her name. His hand merely grazed her arm as she ran past him.
She took off as fast as her legs would carry her. Runo had directly told Dan that they should break-up. She didn't do it over the phone, through a text, she did it face to face. She thinks that merited her a chance to be a coward and run away from him. She didn't want to see his face, his expression, or hear anything he had to say at the moment. All she needed was time. That was exactly what she was doing. Buying time. She hadn't stopped running since the moment she had began. She hadn't even stopped when she passed her home, or when she had accidentally bumped into someone, knocking whatever it was they were carrying to the ground. She couldn't stop. She couldn't bare anyone seeing her, not even a stranger, and seeing the obvious signs of distress on her face. The tears streaming down her face, and the bloodshot eyes were a clear indication something was wrong.
Finally she stopped when it began hard to breathe. Whether the breathing became an issue because of the running or because she hadn't stopped crying since she had left Dan was unclear. Leaning on the nearest building, Runo attempted to catch her breath. Her eyes were still welled with tears so when she looked up and across the street it was no wonder all the words in the window displays were blending. Nothing was legible, as she read aloud what she saw, "ClohinDearance! Eveythng MustGo! 30% ofon har cuts. Com Get OuFabulus Nw Jvelry." It took a while before everything came into focus again and her breath evened.
I am so sorry, I did not realize how short this chapter was I will try to make the next chapter longer. For me to get this to you sooner I had to worry less about length and more about quality. Quality not Quantity as my teacher says. Anyway, click the review button if you feel like, it would be greatly appreciated. If you have anymore suggestions or details you'd liked to see in the story feel free to share them with me. I'd love to hear them.
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