AN: Who's dissapointed in the fact that no reviews were submitted for my last chapter? This kid right here :/ Anyway, here's a super short chapter.
Chapter song is Time Bomb by All Time Low
Clare's POV
I sighed as I sat on my bed. I had been clearing his stuff out of my closest and computer and out of my heart before I had just given up. It had been a week since he…since he had… I couldn't even make myself say it. He had died, and it was my fault. Yeah, he was getting just a tad bit over-protective, and I felt like we needed just a small break from each other. I didn't know that would kill him! My parents and friends had been telling me this past week that it wasn't my fault. But I knew it was. Alli had been coming over for a few days so she could help me get rid of some of his stuff. But I just couldn't handle it with her there. I told her that maybe it would just be better if I did it by myself, and she had left without argument. Today I had been working on getting rid of the pictures of us on my computer, but that had proved harder than boxing up his shirts and other stuff to give back to his parents. Every time I pulled up a picture of him or of the two of us, a few more tears would escape. We looked so happy, and I had gone and screwed it all up.
"Clare, sweetie do you need anything?" my mom called up to me. I cleared my throat before I answered her because I knew that my voice would be thick with tears.
"No, I'm good for now," I replied. I knew that she knew I was lying, but she didn't press. I took another deep steadying breath before I returned to the picture file I had open. I flipped through some more pictures before I finally decided that I wouldn't -couldn't- delete those photos. It was so unfair. Why did I have to fall in love with someone who was so much more different than me? The whole time it felt like the two of us were dancing on a tight rope; we were so different that we had to dance around each other so we didn't hurt the other. The whole thing was like a time bomb. Once it was set into motion, we were only destined to explode and be destroyed. And we didn't have enough time to diffuse it. I had just broken his heart, and I hadn't had a chance to fix it. The worst part of the whole thing was that I knew that I would never ever be able to let him go.
It was like a time bomb set into motion
We knew that we were destined to explode
And if I had to pull you out of the wreckage
You know I'm never gonna let you go
We're like a time bomb
Gonna lose it
Let's diffuse it
Baby, we're like a time bomb
But I need it
Wouldn't have it any other way