WITHOUT YOU
"Do
not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for
tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."
-- Phillips Brooks
It seems strange being back in school again. Everyone is giving me sad looks each filled with false sympathy. The same people who spoke not one word to me when Nathan was alive now, suddenly come to me with invitations to stay with them, and to be my shoulder to cry on. Rachel, however, won't even look at me.
I think she knows the I couldn't stand to see her right now. From what I've heard, after the wreck, her and Coop worked things out. It doesn't seem fair really that in one terrible moment, when I lost everything I everything I ever wanted, she gained it. But I can't blame her for this, I just can't face her.
Dan and Deb split up, Deb left Tree hill after the funeral. I think in some weird way, Nathan was the one thing that gave them a reason to stay in the marriage, and now that he's dead, any drop of love they once had for each other is gone, just like him.
If it wasn't for the baby, I swear, I would have killed myself. I honestly don't know how I ever lived before Nathan Scott, and I don't know how to survive without him.
I feel like an outsider looking in on my life. It's like it's all a movie, and somehow, someway there has to be a happy ending. Then I look around and remember that in real life there are no happy ending, happy beginnings maybe, but in the end all there is is nothing.
