A/N: alright everyone. As I sit here in pain I am going to write you guys another chapter. Well I'm sure everyone enjoyed how I got rid of Beth. Well here is the next chapter and let me tell you it might not be as happy cheery as you all thought. Read on!

Chapter Twenty Six: Goodbye My Love

Staring at the piece of paper in my hand I felt my body slowly going numb. I had done the one thing that no man would ever think he would or could do. He had killed his ex girlfriend. Beth was gone. She had killed herself in the one place where my happiest moment had been. I had wished so hard that there would be a simple solution to this problem. I got just that. I got the simplest solution, Beth's death. I put the paper back down on the counter and walked out into the living room. I stood in front of Nicol until she looked up at me. I'm sure I had gone pale. I'm sure that I had a haunted look in my eyes. Nicol's expression changed and she reached a hand out to me.

"I killed her Nicol." Nicol looked to me with a shocked face.

"Killed who Jeffrey?" She asked weary.

"I killed Bethany Britt" I said and I looked out toward the woods beyond my house. "She killed herself because she couldn't have me." I felt like all the strength in my body had left me. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I'm sure I wasn't here. This wasn't real, it couldn't be real. Beth was still in the bedroom, it was a threat. Something she hadn't done yet. I ran around the house blindly looking for Beth. When I couldn't find her in the house, in the dim light of the sun set I ran out of the back door. I could vaguely hear Nicol calling out for me.

I ran through the woods going down that old overgrown trail that had once been walked on so many times. I ran through the brush, the weeds, and the spider webs. I couldn't believe this was happening. Why did everything seem to go terribly wrong? Every wish that I had ever had, had gone terribly wrong. I could hear my feet beating the ground, my breath coming as quickly as it was going. My vision slowly tunneled until all I saw was a path lost long ago.

"Where are you taking me Jeff?" Beth asked me as we walked through the woods. The little diamond ring sat in it's black velvet box in my back pocket. She was giggling and hanging onto me as I lead her through the woods. I had taken her hand and we were taking a slow steady walk to no where. I didn't know where we would end up when I finally knew it was the time. She tripped a couple of times over the old roots of the trees around us.

"You'll see Beth Baby." I said stopping her to kiss her on the lips. She smiled and kissed me back. I took her hand in mine again and we continued to walk. Nothing could make me feel even better about today. It had been nice and cool, without the scorching heat of the normal summer days. I had spent all my waking hours when I was home clearing this area so that Beth and I could walk the trail every now and then.

"Jeff it's starting to get dark how are we going to find our way home?" She asked getting closer to me. I could feel her heart beat through my arm. It was speeding up with the possibility of being in the woods at night. I knew just as well as her that it wasn't the best idea to be in the woods at night.

"You don't trust me?" I asked and she looked up at me. By the time she answered I had stopped her in a clearing with a small crick flowing through the middle. I sat her on a rock and I reached in my back pocket. The sun was setting behind me and behind the trees.

"Of course I do Jeff." She said with a soft smile. I opened the box in my left hand with my right. Kneeling down in front of her I saw the shocked look on her face. I smiled as a tear started to run down her cheek.

"Bethany Britt." I said as she put her hands to her mouth. I smiled brighter at the reaction she was giving to me. To me it was a good sign. I had a very good chance that she would say yes to me. "Will you marry me?" I asked finally. She jumped up from the rock and catapulted her body toward me.

"Yes Jeff I will! I will marry you!" She said happily. I kissed her and put the ring on her finger quickly before resuming our kissing. That night we had not only walked home in the dark but we had also made great use of that clearing. The soft grass that I had made sure grown tall enough to make a nice cushion, but not too tall that snakes would be hiding in it.

All those years ago, and I could still remember it as if it were yesterday. I burst through the brush and into the clearing. There lying across the rock that I had proposed to her on, was Beth. I stood still for a long time waiting for her to move. I wanted her to get up and smile at me. I wanted her to tell me it was all a joke.

Slowly however, I began to walk over to the body of Beth. I reached out to brush the hair out of her face. Her eyes open and staring into the sky. I closed my eyes and turned my head away. Those eyes would be imprinted in my memory forever. I knew people said that you never closed your eyes when you died, but I had always kept that silly fantasy that you closed your eyes when you died.

I looked back at her and closed her eyes with my two fingers. She was so cold. She was pale, and not peaceful at all. She looked as if her last moments were painful. I didn't know if I was thankful or not that my mind didn't work well enough to Imagine what had happened to her in her last moments. This was the end of Beth Britt. I had hoped that this spot would have been a great beginning for the both of us, but it turned out to be our end.

I had lost my first true love. I took Beth's body into my arms and cradled her there. Regardless if she had been selfish, had gotten our son hurt, hadn't taken care of him when he needed it. She was my first love. I would never be able to forget her, never be able to forget all those years we spent together. I lay there motionless until the sun had set behind the trees and left me in darkness. I don't know when I fell asleep and I didn't care. Nothing mattered at that moment except that Beth was dead. Nothing else mattered.

A/N: hey everyone. Let me explain why I put this chapter in lol. You know your first love. You never truly forget them and you never truly stop loving them. Well, I never truly stopped loving mine. Anyway yea, that's what im getting at. Yea sure Beth's a bitch and all, but he certainly never wanted her dead. Okay. Now that I got that settled. Please go to my good friend's stories and read hers. VoodooKisses is a great author and she deserves recognition! Oh and one last thing. REVIEW PLEASUMS!!!!!

~*Morna*~