AN: I know it has been a while since we've heard from these two, so please, review the previous three installments in this series if you are lost! Also, I wish everyone a happy and blessed filled newyear!

Distance IV

By: anybodihearme

Originally Uploaded: Monday, January 1, 2018

"No, I choose me!" Eddward screamed with tears running down his face. "I choose me after all these years I have been doing but choose you!" He antagonized, clearly ignoring the tears that carelessly fell from his eyes and down his cheeks. "I loved you so much that I have forgotten how to love myself, Kevin." The once strong baritone voice that Eddward cherished once, was now lost - a thing of the past - and all the remained was a wavering voice that belonged to a stranger. "I can't do this anymore. I can't."

Looking away, Eddward retrieved the small black duffel bag from off the floor. Taking a deep breath, the raven-haired man looked around the room, giving it a once over, before his cold blue eyes fell on green ones that once held the capacity to make him forget his own name. Now, all he saw in those deep green vibrant forests were lies and deceit. The pity and sorrow that fill them do nothing to warm his heart and soul like they once were. Instead, they left him feeling more alone and empty than he was when he was indeed lost in a world that done him more harm than good.

"Eddward," Kevin began, holding the raven-haired man's gaze steady in a poor attempt to beg forgiveness in a way that his voice failed to do. "I just need ti-"

"You had two years, Kevin! Two years!" Eddward's slender hand fell on his chest, bawling into a small fist and gripping his shirt with enough force to wrench the shirt off his body. "I have done nothing but try and forgive you but you have only hurt me more in ways that I cannot even begin to verbalize." Eddward shook his head and a soft laugh escaped his voice as he looked up. "I need to take care of myself, Kevin," he admitted.

With that, Eddward turned on his heels and walked out of their once shared bedroom. Oddly enough, however, as Eddward placed one foot in front of the other, in the mere distance, he could practically hear the many laughs, see the many smiles, and feel the many touches he and Kevin shared throughout the years in that small bedroom. That was a lifetime ago. This home - no house - was no longer a place that he could seek comfort; instead, it does nothing but provides him with absolute abandon.

It's a tragic tale, to say the least.

"I need to take care of me," he whispered to no one but himself as he heard Kevin call his name once more. "I need to take care of me," he repeated as he slipped off his wedding band and placed it on one of the many stands in the hallway before disappearing down the stairs and out of the house.