Song- Anywhere But Here- SafetySuit
Anywhere But Here
Just Seconds Before She Left…
"I don't want our daughter to grow up in a broken home, Percy. But then again, I can't have her grow up in a home where her parents treat each other like this." Tears were rolling down her face. I tried to get closer to her to wipe them away but she kept backing away from me.
"Percy, if you love someone enough, sometimes, you have to let them go." I shook my head. I was fighting back the tears.
"Maybe this is destiny, Percy. Maybe we just were never meant to be. I never wanted this to end like it is but, everything that I never thought would happen or ever come to pass did happen. I wonder if maybe, we could only ever be just a dream because maybe this is just me, bleeding all my thoughts and dreams in hope that you would be with me. This is the end of a moment of a beautiful love unfolding that will never be for you and me."
I couldn't process her words. My brain refused to accept what she was saying. My heart was fighting against breaking then and there.
"I'll be who ever you want me to be. Just tell me, Annabeth. I'll go anywhere you want me to go. I'll do whatever I have to do. Annabeth, just don't…" She was shaking her head at me.
"Stop, please. Can't you see, Percy? We aren't good together. I don't love you anymore. I wish there wasn't any pain in our relationship but it's a little late for that. I'm done crying over you and I'm done holding us together with nothing to do it with, Percy. So please, stop begging, stop. We can never be like we were when we were teenagers. Too much has changed for us to go back to what we had. You can reminisce those times but there's nothing left between us beside our daughter. And that's the last and only good thing to come of this destruction."
I stood there blinking. She continued past me to the closest where she began to pack frantically. I couldn't move. My heart was frozen. It was like it had stopped beating the moment her words reached my ears.
"Annabeth…I never meant to hurt you. I just thought I could give you something you deserved. I-Everything I did was for you…." She interrupted me.
"You don't have to do that anymore. I'm no longer what holds you down to be something you never were meant to be. I'll give you life again, Percy. I never asked you to marry me when I got pregnant. I never demanded you do anything like you did. I only asked that you be in the baby's life. That's all I asked, Percy."
I couldn't even feel my heart anymore. I was numb.
"I did it because I love you. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. I wanted to grow old with you. I knew that no matter how bad things got in life, as long as I had you, nothing could ever be that bad. Can't you see that I would do anything for you? And when I'm not with you, there's nothing I would do. I'd rather be with anywhere but here without you. Don't you see that I'll never stop being in love with you? That even my love for music would never compare to the love I have for you, Annabeth."
I think I could feel the tears rolling down my face. I couldn't tell. I could only see her. She wouldn't turn around to look at me. She just kept throwing clothes in her bag.
"You aren't supposed to hurt the ones you love, Percy."
"Tell me how to fix us. I'll do it. I'll drop everything to fix it."
"If love you someone, you have to let them go, sometimes. Let me go, Percy."
She turned to face me. The tears had stopped flowing. I watched as she placed her ring down.
"Percy, maybe one day, we'll wake up and this will all be just a dream. A really bad dream. But for now, good-bye." She walked past me and she was gone.
Is this the end of the moment or just a beautiful unfolding
Of a love that will never be or maybe be
Everything that I never thought could happen or ever come to pass and I wonder
If maybe, maybe I could be all you ever dreamed, cause you are
Beautiful inside, so lovely and I can't see why I'd do anything without you, you are
And when I'm not with you, I know that it's true
That I'd rather be anywhere but here without you
Is this a natural feeling or is it just me bleeding
All my thoughts and dreams in hope that you will be with me or
Is this a moment to remember or just a cold day in December, I wonder
If maybe, maybe I could be all you ever dreamed cause you are
Beautiful inside, so lovely and I can't see why I'd do anything without you, you are
And when I'm not with you, I know that it's true
That I'd rather be anywhere but here without you
Is this the end of the moment or just a beautiful unfolding of a love that will never be for you and me
Cause you are
You're beautiful inside, you're so lovely and I can't see why I'd do anything without you, you are
And when I'm not with you, I know that it's true
That I'd rather be anywhere but here without you