"'Cause I want it all or nothing at all
There's nowhere left to fall its
Now or never. Is it all? Or are we just
Friends? Is this how it ends with a simple
Telephone call? You leave me here with
Nothing at all,"
-"All or Nothing", O-Town
"Sandy…come on out…you've been in there since seven," Martha knocked on Sandra's door. "I can't get her to get out." She told Barbara.
Barbara rolled her eyes. "Because you don't know where the key is." She reached above the door gripping a key. She stuck the key in the door and opened it. Sandra lifted her head from her pillow. Her face was tear stained.
"Oh God, Sandra what happened?" Martha rushed to her side sitting next to her.
"Anthony…"
"Did he hurt you? Because if he did I swear to God I'll beat him into bloody Tuesday," Martha threatened.
"He told me he loved me," Sandra squeaked out.
"That's great Sandy!" Barbara cheered. "So why are you crying?"
"Because I told him things were over with us,"
"What? Why?"
"Why in the world would you do that to him?" Martha demanded.
"Look…what I did was my choice…and I should have to defend it to you," Sandra explained while looking at her pillow.
"Sandra-" Martha was about to yell at her but Barbara grabbed her arm. "What?"
"If you don't want to tell us then you don't have to…come on Martha, it's late we should head to bed." She pushed Martha out of the room and closed the door behind her.
"What are you doing?" Martha yanked her arm away from Barbara.
"Look if she doesn't want to tell us she doesn't have to,"
"She just ruined one of the best things she had going for her! Tony has loved her since he met her at the club in New York. Now she feels the need to hurt him like that? She has been so happy-"
"Martha, I'm not going to argue with you anymore," she headed for their room. Martha followed.
"I'd think you'd be the one upset about this,"
"I am," Barbara replied. "But I'm not gonna make her feel worse than she already does. I'm going to bed. Goodnight."
"Sorry," Martha muttered and she went to her side of the room.
* * *
Anthony stood from his wheel chair and steadied himself to walk. He walked to Sandra's window and lightly tapped on it. He saw Sandra get up and walk over to the window. She opened it with a sigh. "Anthony…what are you doing here?"
"I came to get answers. Can I come in?"
"Fine," she sighed. She stood back and let him climb in over the bench that was in front of the window.
"Why did you break things off with me?"
"Look…I don't need to defend myself to you-"
"When you break my heart, yes you do!"
"Be quiet! Barbara and Martha are sleeping. And no I don't,"
"Things were going good with us," he reached out and tried to take her hand but she pulled away.
"You can walk now…and that makes me uneasy,"
"What?"
"That means you can hurt me…and means you can walk out of my life…if I end things then I won't get hurt,"
They stood in silence for a moment. Instead of sadness that filled Anthony it was anger. "You broke up because I can walk again? Do you know how selfish that is? If you want to play this 'hurt him before he can hurt me' game. Fine you go ahead, but I'm not going play that game with you Sandy. Want me out of your life? I'll leave. I just wish that if I knew that was going to happen I wouldn't have gotten this." He took a small box out of his pocket and set it on the dresser."
"You're not going to do this to me, you're not going to make me feel bad…feel guilty,"
He looked at her with such pain in his eyes and anger in his heart. "Too bad I guess. Goodbye Sandy." He turned and climbed out of the window.
She reached to the dresser and picked up the small box that Anthony had set down. She opened it finding a silver ring in it. "No…please no…" tears welled in her eyes and fell out. I lost my chance…she sniffled and sat on the bed staring at the ring.
There was a clap of thunder outside and it began to rain. Suddenly there was a knock at her window.
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