A/N: This chapter is not only angsty but it's REALLY short. I'm hoping for another fluffy chapter next. If I have time it will up tomorrow morning.
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Song: The Dance
Artist: Garth Brooks
Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars alone
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye
It's what started it all.
It's what made him believe in love again.
The memory of that dance was bittersweet. He held her close to him, not thinking of what was to come after. Not thinking of what he would feel with in the next coming months. He just was feeling what he felt in that moment. It felt so right to him.
Their dance was unplanned, magical, and the start of a new chapter in his life. Both of their lives. In that moment beneath the stars, holding each other tight, breathing in the cool breeze of the open air, they were right where they needed to be, wanted to be.
Goodbye was the last thing on his mind.
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance
He was glad he couldn't see the future. Knowing the pain that he was going to go through was something he probably could have done without. He had been through enough in his life, and having to say goodbye to another woman he loved was more than he could take.
Sitting on the front steps of his house, he sat and wept like a child. He wanted to go back in time and take all the memories he had with her and erase them. It was too painful to remember all the memories they shared in their short time together, and now he was alone again. Alone, was something he was used to before her. Being with her made him forget those days, and he would have given anything to not feel that way again.
Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey who's to say you know I might have changed it all
He held her as if she was everything to him. And at the time she was all he really had. He could have changed everything by not asking her to dance that night. She could have changed it all by declining him.
But he did ask her, almost pleadingly, and she did accept, without hesitation. It was meant to be. At least for a moment in time.
He watched himself fall apart before, and it was about to happen again. He never thought that he would ever love again like this.
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Yes my life is better left to chance
I could have missed the pain but I'd have had to miss the dance
He had to try and pick up the pieces that had fallen apart. He had to find a way of finding some sort of peace with it. She didn't die, she left. Maybe, there was still a chance for him to get her back.
But there was no use in thinking about what would have happened if that dance didn't happen. There is one thing he knew for sure, that in the end, as much as he wished to have missed all the pain he was going through, he would never take back the dance.
RnR, if you please!
- Kai