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Don't stay - Linkin Park
Chapter 10
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The wedding hadn't changed a single thing in their relationship. It was just a piece of paper in the back of a drawer. Dom still didn't realize that he had done it. It was the only solution on the moment but this troth was a sacred thing for him and he felt like he had betrayed its meaning.
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One day, while they were all at the garage, a shade stretched between the door and the sun. They raised their heads, expecting a customer and remained silent.
Letty.
She was standing still, with her bag in her right hand. She dropped it to the floor and then they all run towards her. They embraced her, griped her against them, bombarded her with questions, cried, and touched her again and again just to be sure that she was really there.
Letty.
Anna stayed out of their way and remained sat in the office.
Letty.
Dom took a little more time than the others to realize. He was freezed. From where she was, Anna could see his face. First, it had been blank then surprised and eventually indefinable.
It was Letty who came to him when the small group let her breath. She got ahead slowly and stopped at some inches of him.
Everything went silent. They were waiting, watching this amazing chemistry reappeared between Dominic and Letty. All this time, they did not part eyes. She tilted her head and cracked a smile.
- Hey Big Boy.
He did not answer but enveloped her in an endless cuddle.
At last, she was home!
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News spread and the entire neighborhood soon came at Toretto's house.
They were partying for three entire days.
In the middle of all this, Anna felt displaced. Letty, the prodigal girl had come back and nothing else mattered. They hadn't been introduced. She did not even think that Letty knew that she was Dom's girl.
If she was still that…
Now that she had seen Letty, she understood everything. She was tough, funny, knew his friends and knew the cars… She was everything that Anna wasn't.
Anna was there but like a ghost. The place which she had occupied these last four months was, once again, filled by the one for whom it had been designed for. Anna had only been a substitute of poorer quality.
After all the efforts which she had provided, she finally understood it. But if she had nothing to do here anymore, it was up to Dominic to say it to her.
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Precisely, Dom was not in any condition to make a decision. The return of Letty had completely taken him by surprise. Nothing would have been able to prepare him for that. To see her after so many years, it had been as to go out of a never ending nightmare. She was there, just in front of him. Her hair might be longer and her silhouette might be slimmer but she remained his Letty. Her eyes couldn't be mistaken. Nothing else existed for him at the time he had embraced her, at the time he had smelt the warmth of her skin against his.
The missing part of his life was finally returned.
He was happy but also dazed that it had arrived so quickly.
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The others weren't any better. They just didn't see her anymore. Nobody was talking to her or noticing her presence. She was like a ghost. She had never seen them so happy. While it had taken weeks for her to be accepted, everything seemed so easy to Letty.
Anna stayed apart. She wanted to let them the time to savor this happiness. She also had the feeling that she did not have her place in these celebrations.
Even if she wanted to know, Anna did her best to avoid Dom. She was too scared.
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The second day, Mia had agreed to let her have the keys of her flat so that she could have a rest. Dom's little sister hadn't left the home anymore since she had found back her friend of childhood.
Anna had gone up in their bedroom to gather some things for the night, when Letty entered.
- Who are you?
- Anna.
- I know that. What are you doing here?
- That's my bedroom. I live here with Dom and the guys.
Letty took news.
- Really? Do you think that some racer chaser can live here for good?
- I'm not some skank! I met Dom in Greece. We are a real couple.
Letty burst out in laughs.
- Are you serious? I just have to look at you to know that you're not in your world here. You're some golden princess who wants to get laid by a bad guy. I know Dom perfectly. He needs a girl who isn't afraid to get dirt underneath her nails, who knows cars and who has enough evil in her to stand to him. And clearly, you're not that girl.
Anna couldn't reply to that. Letty was right. However, she loved him and he did too.
Leon passed by and dragged Letty out of the room to party downstairs some more.
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Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I need you to stay away from me
Sometimes I'm in disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I need you to go
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The following evening, Anna had come back. She had climbed the stairs and had entered the bathroom to get back her makeup and she stopped dead. Dom was fucking Letty right there, right in front of her eyes. No, he was not fucking her. He was making love to her. The way he had had with her. Dom raised his head but it was as though he did not see her. She shook herself and closed the door.
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Don't stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me into
Just give me myself back
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Holding back the tears and without nobody noticing, Anna went to gather the rest of her belongings and left. She knew how to be unassuming, how to go invisible if it was necessary. She knew it just too much.
She called a cab. This idea made her the effect of a slap in the face. Dom had laughed a lot when she had confessed to him since how long she had not driven, during their trip to Vegas. Since then, he had refused to leave her behind the steering wheel of a car. Either she had asked one of them for a ride or she had walked. It was okay with her. Dom had planned to re-teach to her soon …
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Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well
Sometimes I just feel like screaming at myself
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She took a hotel bedroom. Nobody called her.
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Sometimes I'm in disbelief I didn't know
Somehow I need to be alone
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Dom took a certain time to notice her absence. That first rather irritated him then Letty had entered the room and he had forgotten everything. His life was eventually how it should have been for years. The love of his life, his sister and friends, great businesses, no more problems with cops…
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I don't need you anymore, I don't want to be ignored
I don't need one more day of you wasting me away
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Anna must have fight for him but he clearly didn't want her to. Moreover she no longer had the strength into her.