"Why Taani? Why do you insist on doing this to yourself? Why are you tormenting yourself? Will you be able to look at yourself in the mirror, knowing that I'm dying on the inside every day because of this promise? Because I won't. I won't be able to smile, laugh, and dance like everything's normal. Like I didn't break your heart and our lives. I'm not that strong. I won't be able to do it. Anything but that Taani. Please." He pleaded with her, pleading her to take her words back. To ask anything of him but what she had
"If I stay, I won't be able to face myself, knowing what happened, reliving it every day, in every piece of my life. I can't see you hurting either Rey. Nor can I hurt me. That's why it's best if I'm not here for your eyes to see every day and for your heart to hurt. I have to leave Rey. For both of us." Taani's hoarse words struck him in the face as his mind registered them. She might as well have screamed them. Before he could bring up his protests she forged ahead - "Don't ask me to stay Rey. Please don't. I beg you. It'll only hurt both of us more if we see each other day in, day out."
"When?" the choked word came out softer this time, all the fight gone from his body. Head bowed, eyes no longer able to hold back the unceasing stream of tears, he put up no resistance, made no other sound as her body backed towards the hall, further away from his life, with no moves made by him to stop her from leaving. His mind and heart were shrieking, clawing at him to stop her. To do something. ANYTHING to stop her from leaving. But his body just wouldn't obey, feet cemented to the floor.
A whispered reply came, the single word reverberating around him until he couldn't see even her shadow in the doorway any longer, "Tomorrow".