I always said that I would make mistakes

I'm only human and that's my saving grace

I'll fall as hard as I try

so don't be blinded

see me as I really am

I have flaws and sometimes I'm even sad

so pull me from that pedestal

I don't belong there

She started to walk away, knowing that if she carried on going, maybe she wouldn't ever turn back. The memory of the disappointment in Brian's eyes, followed by the look of eternal love made her turn to face him.

"I can't." she informed him, making a rash decision.

"Maybe you could think more?" he asked, hopeful. But she shook her head.

Tibby felt something snap. She wanted to be gentle, to let him down easily, but something stopped her.

"I don't want to move in with you Brian."

"W, why?"

"Because I don't love you."

He looked at her, his eyes falling with disappointment and for the first time, hurt. A feeling she had barely seen in him since they had got together. She didn't know why she'd said it because there was a large part of her that wanted nothing more than to live happily ever after with the boy…man…that she loved. He used to be a boy, a glasses wearing dork who played computer games all day. But now he had changed, grown in many ways. He was taller, his shoulders grew up and out, the definition of his muscles forming a body that she longed to touch. The endless hours she used to spend following the lines his muscles made, from wrist, to elbow, to shoulder, all the way down his chest and back up the other side. She didn't know why the words fell from her lips, but something had made it happen. Doubt? Fear? She didn't know, the only thing she did know was that she didn't mean it.