This was written by Emmybear ox and as I'm sure you'll all agree it's fantastic. (:
Dear Shane,
Sometimes in life we are faced with difficult decisions. We do not want to make them, but they are mandatory. Just because I may be hurting you by doing this, it doesn't make it any less hard for me. I don't want to do it any less. I don't love you any less. I'm still hurting twice as much. I have to live with myself, wondering why it had to come down to this. Why I put you through such agony.
I'm sorry, Shane.
I really, really am. I hope you can understand why I am doing this. It's for our own good.
Don't you see Shane? You're a rock star, I'm a nobody. I go to school, you go on tour. You make millions of dollars a month; I make 2.00 dollars an hour as a waitress. We barely see each other anymore. We talk on the phone when you have the time, but is that really good enough?
How do you expect me to spend my life tied up to a relationship I'm not even in? If I never see you, why can't I see other people? What's the point?
I love you more than life itself, Shane – you have to know that.
But we were never going to work out. We aren't right for one another. You're too busy, and understand that. So I won't ask much of you; just to forget about me.
I'm going to have to live my life the right way, and if it's without you than it must end this way. I really didn't want it to happen, please believe me. It just had to happen.
I love you, and I'm sorry.
Your friend (hopefully?),
Mitchie