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Chapter Title Inspired By: "Where'd You Go" by Fort Minor

Chapter 10
"Please Come Back Home"

She had been driving for an hour, and she still had an hour and a half to go.

She had music playing, which included all of her favorite alternative/rock bands.

A more sadder song came on; "Pieces" by Red.

The piano at the beginning, forced tears to come to her eyes.

She shook off the crying and began to think of what she could possibly say to John.

She began to speak out loud what she thought she should say.

"John, I love you" she said. But it didn't sound nice enough to her. "John, your the world to me" she paused "No" she then murmured.

She began noticing that she had no idea what to say. She pulled over the car at the side of the rode and began deeply thinking.

"Should I turn back?.. Have I come too far to be able to go all the way back?" she thought. "No.. I'm not going back- I can't go back"

Ashley then began driving the car.

She knew in her heart that turning back was the complete wrong decision.

Turning back would just be yet another mistake added to her collection.

She continued driving, with her heart pounding and her music blasting.

--

She pulled up in front of John's house around 2 PM.

It was beautifully sunny, the sun shined brightly.

She got out of her car, and went up to the front door.

She stood there nervously, not too positive on what she was to do next.

She took a deep breath, and slowly blinked. She then pressed her finger against the door bell button.

The door bell rang, and she stood there nervously. The door knob slowly twisted, and Ashley's eyes widened.

Suddenly, John appeared at the door- standing right in front of her. She froze up, not knowing what to say.

"Ashley.. What are you doing here?" He asked her, in a disappointed-sounding voice. Ashley let out a deep breath.

"I pick you." She stated. John stood there confused, yet shocked. "I pick you over Brian. I love you more then I could ever love him, nor any one else. Your the most amazing guy in my life. And I would give up the world just for you to be standing there next to me. Drama is so stupid, and I know I start a lot of it.. and I'm sorry for that. I love you so much, and I know that Taylor needs you. Please.. Come back home." She explained.

John looked her in the eyes, and let out a deep, long sigh.

"Give me one reason that I should come back home.. one reason." He demanded.

"I have more then one reason, John. You have Taylor and me back home, and here; you'll be alone with no one to love. And I promise if you come back home; we'll get a house together, and we'll really start our lives as a family. We'll get married, and I'll love you forever and always." She answered.

"I don't know, Ash. I'm hurt.. I'm truly hurt. I can't truthfully look at you the same anymore. You've hurt me a hundred times in my life, and each time you do; it gets harder and harder for me to get over it. " He paused "I guess that love isn't what matters after all.. We need some thing more then love between us."

"We have more then love! We have trust, we have friendship- we have so much more then love. But love is the most important thing out of all those things, and I really need you to realize that.. I need you to look at me and tell me you don't wanna be with me." She paused, waiting for a response. "Go on- say it. Look me in the eyes and say you don't wanna be with me." She demanded.

"Ashley.. stop it."

"Go on John! If you don't wanna be with me then tell me! Look me in the eyes and tell me!" He didn't respond. "Go on! Tell me!" She yelled once more.

"I don't wanna be with you!" He screamed, staring her right in the eyes. "Happy?"

Ashley stormed off to her car, and got in- she then sped off.

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That night,

John layed in his bed, thinking of the words that Ashley had said.

They ran through his head like a broken record.

"We have trust, we have friendship- we have so much more then love" "I pick you over Brian. I love you more then I could ever love him, nor any one else. Your the most amazing guy in my life. I would give up the world just for you to be standing there next to me."

Those two things were playing in his head continuously.

Ashley's voice echoed through out his mind.

The look on her face, when he told her that he didn't want to be with her, was saddening.

She looked as if she had been hit by a bus, and then walked all over.

She had poured out her entire heart to John, but he had stomped all over it.

He made her swallow her words. He made her feel like dirt.

But John was trying to just forget about it; forget about her.

But how can you forget about the one that you love the most?

The one that has been there for you since you were a kid.

Your best friend. Your first love... Your current love.

John sat up from his bed, staring off in to the darkness.

The pouring rain bounced off of his glass window.

He looked around his room, he then saw a picture of Ashley and him on his desk.

The two were laughing hysterically, and hugging.

The picture made him laugh- it made him remember the good old memories.

The memories that would forever be stained in to his heart.

--

Ashley was still an hour away from being home.

She was continuously crying, she pulled over to the side of the road.

She immediately began crying hysterically. The song "In The End" by Linkin Park was playing.

She couldn't take the pain that was racing through her veins. She couldn't stop from crying.

"I tried so hard, and got so far. But in the end it doesn't even matter. I had to fall, to lose it all. In the end it doesn't even matter."

The lyrics to that song were fitting her situation so goodly. She had lost every thing that mattered to her.

She was heartbroken, she was completely broken- shattered in to pieces.

But what was left to be said? She had said every thing possible. She had said enough to John.

She wiped the tears from her face, and began driving once again.

This time; she decided that crying wasn't allowed for her. She was done with crying.

She was done with the sleepless nights of staying up and thinking of all her mistakes.

The past is the past.. and that was it for Ashley.

Right then and there; she threw the past behind her.. and began looking at the future.

But what does the future even hold for her?