Chapter Ten

Mark and Chelsea

Song: Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard

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Mark's POV

There's a place off Ocean Avenue

Where I used to sit and talk with you

We were both 16, and it felt so right

Sleeping all day, staying up all night

I shoot up from my bed, breathing heavily, with every part of my body in a sweat. I had that dream again. The one where I relive the moment of when I last saw her; my darling Chelsea. I sigh as I fall back onto my pillow. I look up at the ceiling of my farmhouse. Three years. Three painfully long years since we said goodbye. I close my eyes, and relive the moment.

"This is goodbye Chelsea. I'm sorry. I love you, with all my heart. I'm ending what we have. I can't tell you why. Just know that I'm protecting you from more pain later on down the road." I turn around to the dark, avoiding her gorgeous eyes. The only light is from the shining summer full moon. There's million's and million's of stars. My chest is aching, with every breath I take. I have to take deep breaths, or else I know I'll start crying.

"I don't understand how your breaking up with me, could be protecting me in anyway." She says. I listen to the cracking in her voice.

The reason I can't be with her?

Trent found some disease, thats killing me.

The odds of me living? Twenty-five percent. I'm going to a hospital in the big city. I can't let Chelsea know. She has too many dreams of her own to worry about my health. Besides. I don't want her sympathy. I don't want anybody's sympathy for that matter. I turned around to her, staring right into her beautiful blue eyes. I saw a tear run slowly down her cheek, and I quickly brush it away, leaving my hand lightly resting on the her cheek. I kiss her, and she lets me. I pull way.

"This is goodbye, Chelsea." I say, looking into her eyes, one last time. I turn around and run away, off the beach and onto the road that leads up to my apartment building.

If I could find you now

Things would get better

We could leave this town

And Run forever

Let your waves crash down

And take me away

The rest is a blur. The doctors say it was a miracle I survived the disease. About a year and a half ago, I left the hospital and traveled around the world for a little bit. I somehow got myself wrapped up in being a rancher, and weird part is, I like it. I kinda like being a farmer. I think I might as well stay. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about Chelsea. Before I started traveling, I went back to that beach, where her family lives. When I got there, she was gone. Her family too. I asked around, and the only answer I got was that her parents retired, being older and having money in the band and all, and she ran off. She didn't leave a trace or anything.

If I could find you now

Things would get better

We could leave this town

And Run forever

Let your waves crash down

And take me away

I wake up, but this time its to the sound of a annoying Denny trying to beat down my door.

"Dude! Open up! I got some news!" I hear him yell from outside. I sigh as I get out of bed.

"What do you want? Its five am!" I yell at him, after opening the door.

"I was about to leave for a fishing trip, when I saw a girl get off the ferry!" He yells.

"And? Your point?" I ask. He has that 'Denny' grin.

"Let me put it this way-" My eyes widen, and before he can say, or do, anymore, I blurt out,

"Do nothing! I'll go see this girl or whatever," I tell my insane best friend. I walk out the door with him to the beach. "You do understand that nobody, nobody on this earth will replace Chelsea, right?" I tell him. I can hear him sigh.

"Dude, I think you should try and move on. She's one girl. You wouldn't talk to Natalie, you don't even look at Julia, and you probably don't even know who Sabrina is!" He tells me. Natalie scares me, Julia isn't as pretty as Denny and Elliot says she is, and Sabrina doesn't come out of her house. Chelsea was kind and caring to everyone, insanely beautiful, and naturally confident and out-going. She's perfect in every way. And some other guy is this world is holding her right now, I bet.

I remember the look in your eyes

When I told you that this was goodbye

You were begging me not tonight, not here, not now

We arrive at the beach, and Denny is searching all over for the girl. I keep telling him that she probably saw the island wasn't up to her expectations, and hopped right back on the ship. I look over to the ocean, and memories haunt top of the sun is creeping slightly above the ocean, giving the world a fresh new orange and pink color.

"There she is!" Denny yells, pointing at a girl with a red bandana and duffle bag. She's pretty small, and when she sees me, she stops. She runs up closer to me. Who does sh-

My heart amost stops when she's close enough to those eyes

We're looking up at the same night sky

And keep pretending the sun will not rise

We'll be together for one more night,

Somewhere, somehow,

"Chelsea!" I run to her. I pick her up in my arms.

I put her back on the ground. I look into the beautiful eyes I abandoned long ago.

I kiss her lips, knowing I'm gonna make it right this time.

And this time, I won't let her slip away.

If I could find you now

Things would get better

We could leave this town

And Run forever

Let your waves crash down

And take me away

I love the ending. I've always been a sucker for a happy ending, as you might know by now. :P Anyone who reviews, gets an imaginary rose bush!