Waiting for the End

Based on the song "Waiting for the End" by Linkin Park

Summary: When John Cena first asked his longtime girlfriend, Kate, to marry him, the two couldn't be more excited about starting a life together. However, as time goes on and more of John's time gets focused on work, Kate started thinking that forever isn't going to happen. Do they end a relationship that they both want? Or are they able to make it work together?

Kate felt that emptiness that had been creeping over her lately. It was probably the hardest thing that she ever had to cope with. That moment when you realize your relationship is over, and you're struggling to make it work, but you know it isn't going to last, just kills a person.

It wasn't that Kate was delusional or anything like that. She was just hopeful, though her hope was fading with each passing day. It hurt like hell. Kate knew she was finding it more difficult to ignore the elephant in the room. Obviously John had to be feeling the same way.

Trying to hold onto something that was slipping out of your hands was only going to lead to more pain and more heartache, and she was sure she'd suffered enough. But even knowing that didn't make it hurt less. The diamond ring that sparkled on her left ring finger no longer held the promise of a life together. It was a reminder of how they had high hopes that were quickly coming to an end.

"Kate, are you okay?" Michelle McCool asked, eyeing her friend curiously.

She looked up from her lap, as the two women sat in a café, eating lunch. "Oh…yeah…" she unconvincingly replied. "I'm fine."

"Kate…" Michele could see through her friends lie.

"I just…um…"

"What's going on?" she asked, her voice showing concern.

"Well…John and I are just…" She slowly shook her head.

Michelle gave her a confused look. "You're what? I thought things were good with the two of you," she said.

"They were…but I dunno. Things have just gone downhill lately."

"Why?"

"I dunno. It's just…hard. We're like a million miles apart…mentally," Kate explained. "It feels like we're drifting apart."

"Have you spoken to him about it?" Michelle asked.

She shook her head slowly. "We barely even look at each other. Being near each other is so uncomfortable at this point."

Michelle frowned. "I'm so sorry," she sympathetically spoke.

Kate nodded. "Thanks. I just don't know what to do anymore. I know it'd be better to just end it, but…I just don't want to, you know?"

She slowly nodded. "You know, Mark and I had some problems when we first got engaged. You think that just because you're obligating yourself to marry someone, everything gets easier, but it gets harder."

"Ain't that the truth."

"I think you need sit down and to talk to John about how you feel, and maybe you two can come up with some ideas on how to fix things. Like you two could go on dates and make more time for each other," Michelle tried to give her friends some suggestions.

"That's part of the problem. I'm so lucky that I get to travel with John, but at the same time, he always has so much to do that I don't really get to spend that much time with him, and when we are together, all we usually end up doing is sleeping," she explained. "Honestly, I'm starting to think that maybe we aren't going to be together forever anymore."

"You know, you don't have to give up. You still have an opportunity to make it right."

"A big part of the problem is that I'm the only one that's trying to make things right. He doesn't even try. I mean, I don't really blame him. He works more than anyone I've ever met in my entire life that he just doesn't have the energy to deal with a nagging fiancée."

"Yeah, but if he's not gonna try, then, it's not gonna work," Michelle pointed out.

Kate nodded slowly. "I know that. That's why I think that we might just have to end it, at this point," she spoke, trying to swallow the lump that formed in her throat, for she was admitting her true feelings for the first time, out loud.