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He needed her too

Time had stopped when they had said goodbye. The clock kept on ticking by, but they were stuck in the moment and they couldn't move on. A week had passed and no progress had been made. Kirsten was still on the verge of tears and could breakdown at any moment but she was there for her mother, the lady who needed her help the most. Sandy had withdrawn himself from everyone and hadn't left his room since she left, wallowing in self pity to what could have been.

She had always been driven by her emotions, sometimes, to the point where they got in the way. At times she had driven Sandy away with them, her anger, her hurt, but he had always come back. This time though, they had been separated for good. Now, she was overridden with emotions, emotions for Sandy. She had lost him. She had lost him. She had lost him. How could that happen? He was the best thing that had happened to her. He had enabled her to find herself. He was the love of her life. While she had doubted her position with him; there was still Rebecca Bloom, the anti-Kirsten, but he had constantly reminded her that he loved her more words, more than Rebecca. Still, they never had closure, unlike her and Jimmy.

At first they had tried to keep in touch. She had rung him the day after she had arrived home and he had rung her two days after that but both phone calls had ended with uncontrollable sobs on both ends of the lines. Why they were doing this they both didn't really know.

For Sandy, the past seven days had been a blur of sleeping and eating. Luckily, he had graduated two weeks ago so he wasn't missing any classes. Then, it hit him. Why was he still in Berkeley? He reached for today's newspaper and went into the housing section. He found it, the answer to his loneliness; a Newport apartment in the numbered streets. The rent was expensive but it was going to be worth it, he was going to see Kirsten, he couldn't take their separation any longer.
"Don't say you know what I'm feeling when you don't! I can't just forget that I have a life back in Newport, they are my parents. They will always be my parents!" Kirsten screamed at Sandy, taking her rage out on him, the only person she knew wouldn't leave her.

"And what about us? Do you just think that I will always be here waiting for you? That time would just stop and sometime later you can return to me and everything will just continue on. I'm sick of standing here and letting you use me to get back at your parents. Letting you use me to make yourself normal, to keep your feet on the ground. You're just a spoiled Newport brat!" He yelled back. His hands shaking as he drove away the best thing that had ever happened to him.

Her eyes glistened with the prospect of tears and she ran from him. Ran away from her rock and towards shelter where she could let them flow without others seeing her. She ran away from the one who she needed, he needed her too.

Kirsten had spent the last week catching up with her mother and helping her battle her addiction to alcohol. It hurt her to see how troubled her mother was and she hated her father even more for him to cause her to do this to herself. She had told her everything in her life including Sandy, which explained the reason for her constant tears. Her mother felt guilty for making her leave him but she knew Kirsten would come to her senses soon, or else she would have to do something. Kirsten was going through the mail when she picked up a letter addressed to her. Curious as to what was inside, she opened it to find the familiar scrawl of Sandy's writing on a golden piece of paper reading:

Feed me with you words; feed me with your voice

Sure seems the same

We're growing, always guessing

We're clever but we're clueless

Sinking feelings

I'm so in love with you, it just keeps getting better

You surround me; touch every place in my heart

When you're too in love to let it go

And now I'm going to make it right

She smiled slightly before completely breaking down and collapsing in the chair behind her. Grasping it to her heart, she could hear Sandy's voice reading it aloud to her, raising more questions than answers. She sat there until the last tear had dried and went upstairs to put it away and keep it safe from her family. On the way upstairs there was a knock on the door and she went to open it. To her surprise, there was Sandy standing before her and she pulled him close and hung on to him for dear life before a single word was uttered.

He could see she was holding his letter. Of course she wouldn't have figured out what the message meant, it was pretty cryptic, but the fact that her eyes were red and puffy showed him that it meant something to her. Holding onto her with everything, he stroked her hair and comforted her like he had done so many times before when life had troubled her. Just being there and holding onto her made him feel so much better, much more whole.

After standing there for ten minutes just clinging onto one another, they were rudely interrupted by Caleb.

"Kiki what on earth are you doing? Who the hell is he?" He yelled at his daughter.

She turned to face him, her eyes extremely red and puffy with tears streaming down her cheeks, and he realised that she loved him, that nothing he did could change that. He left them in peace and Kirsten towed him into her bedroom. She shut the door and locked it and sat down with him on her bed.

"Sandy, what are you doing here?" She whispered, barely able to hear her own voice.

"I came here for you. I've got an apartment in the numbered streets. I can't live without you, I need you, I love you."

With that leaned forwards and kissed him softly while murmuring "I…love…you…too" They sat there for ages, basking in each others company and relishing in the moment.

"What are you going to do?" She asked, afraid of the answer, she didn't want to lose him all over again.

"I'm going to stay here with my beautiful girlfriend and help her get through this and then we can figure the rest out. All I know is that I'm not going to leave you and I'm certainly not going to let you go through this by yourself. You have allowed me to be myself, to expose myself to the world and I want to help you do the same. I know you did in Berkeley but back here everything is different. But that's not going to change anything, I'm staying and there's no way you are ever going to get rid of me!" He smiled at the end, the first real one since before Kirsten had left him.

With that, she fell down on the bed and snuggled up to him not wanting this moment to end. A few minutes later, she was fast asleep but still holding on tightly to Sandy as a young baby holds onto its mother. Soon enough his eyes drooped and he himself fell asleep nestled up to the love of his life, neither one of them prepared to let go.

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