True Love Will Survive
[ {:} Chapter Seven {:} Lizzie's Memories {:} ]
This chapter is in Lizzie's own words. These are her memories of her and David's relationship - her memories. David's will be in another chapter. Remember: these are how she remembers things, and everything is from her.
"I remember when we first met. I was on the monkey bars at school and had fallen. I was sitting in the sand below and crying, then a hand was on my shoulder. I turned around, tears running down my cheeks and this curly haired boy was standing there, asking me if I was okay. I could see the concern in his eyes, and hear it in his voice. I knew he'd make everything okay again.
From that day forward we were friends. I was friends with Miranda too, but David and I had a stronger connection... I always felt that.
When we first started dating, I was kind of scared because I knew that if we were to break up, not only would my heart break but our friendship would be in jeopardy. I never wanted to lose that. But I also wanted to date David, because I was so in love with him.
This year though, I kind of felt like David was depressed in some ways. I tried to get him to talk, but he never seemed to really want to go into it, so I never really pushed him. I remember when we used to go get ice cream, or go walk in the park, or even just sat next to him during lunch... we were so comfortable together... I always felt like were were meant to be... we were soul mated.
On our vacation last year.... I don't know. In some ways I felt like we were brought closer together, but in some ways I felt like were were driven apart. He came back and he seemed so... down, so frightened or lost. I can't explain it.
We would sit on the beach all day, reading a book, talking - just hanging out. When we splashed around in the water, we were so happy, so care-free... it was perfect as usual.
I never saw it coming. It seemed like we were doing so well. At the party he left me and went to talk to people. I was hanging out with Miranda in the back yard. Kate and Claire were there, and we were just talking to them, sipping on cokes, having a laugh. About and hour or so later I was worried about David so I made my way inside. I looked all around the living room, kitchen, everywhere and never thought he'd be in a bed room. I started asking people if they had seen him and they told me that they saw him with some girl and they went upstairs. I thought they were joking, but I checked any way and sure enough there he was - with her. I was so mad. I felt so angry, betrayed, furious, sad, so... horrible. I had never felt like that in my whole life. It was like someone had run me over with a tank or something.
I don't know what went wrong. All night I tried to think of something to explain it all. I just can't. Did I do something wrong? Was I not there for him? Did he feel like I betrayed him so we wanted revenge? Did someone say or do something to him that made him want to hurt me? I just don't know what to do, or feel, or say.
I'm just so lost."
