Sorry if there's any spelling errors, I am exhausted, goodnight xx
"What have they done to you Han?" Caleb sighed sitting on the spare bed in the guest room of the Marin household. He sipped his beer scrolling threw the camera roll on his iPhone all the way back to 2013. The best year of his life. It was the first of the two years he had spent in New York with Hanna. The only year they were happy.
Caleb smiled at all the happy photos of him and Hanna together. You would assume after they broke up Caleb would just delete them to move on with his life. Nope. Not a chance. Even when he was with Spencer he didn't have the courage to delete them.
He then came across his favorite photo of him and Hanna together. In the photo they were in a deep make out session in Time Square. Surrounding them was a heart they had created themselves using sparklers. Caleb chuckled remembering how long it took them to take that photo. It was the best night he had in New York.
"Babe you need to get out of bed."
"No." Hanna groaned grabbing his pillow and shoving it over her head. The past week had been horrible, Hanna had the flu and was now just recovering. "Hanna the doctor said you have to get out off bed now and you need vitamin D." Caleb tried, beginning to pull the blankets off of her.
"What the fuck, now I'm cold." Hanna yelled at him and curling up in a ball trying to obtain some body heat. Caleb laughed and climbed in next to her. She groaned she was still slightly angry that he to the blankets away but who could be mad at that face for long.
"Hanna you have to get up now, the first week in New York you didn't leave the apartment because you didn't want to experience anything without me, the second week was spent vomiting on our bedroom floor and last week was recovery week, come on its time we have fun." He tried, tracing patterns on her shoulder.
Hanna laughed and moved herself up so she was lying on him with her right arm lazily thrown over his shoulder. "I was going to move but you sat down and babe you're far to comfortable to make me even dream of moving."
He smirked at that comment and pulled her closer so she could use him as her mattress. "Caleb did you just have a shower?" Hanna questioned with a puzzled look on her face. "No, why?" He shook his head.
"Oh my god you smell amazing, seriously babe what the hell you smell delicious." Hanna stated nuzzling her face in the crook of his neck to inhale more of his scent.
"Sadly this will be the last time I smell you though."
"What why?!"
"29 days." Hanna sighed. Caleb rolled his eyes. Hanna has this weird thing, sometimes things she sees or hears in her dreams actually happen. And most recently she dreamt about a voice saying to her "29 days left." So Hanna had convinced herself that she was going to die in 29 days. The 29 days were up now. Caleb thought it was bullshit.
"Hanna it's not real." He tried.
"I will be furious if I die today because the season finale of Big Bang comes out tonight and I don't want miss it."
Caleb chuckled "seriously that's what you'd be pissed about." Hanna nodded quickly. "I will be here crying saying how am I going to cope without you and you'll be in heaven going shit I didn't get to watch Big Bang."
"Completely true." She joked giving him a quick peck on the lips. "I love you." She smirked. "I love you too now get out off bed."
"Caleb is seriously don't think we should be going outside today." Hanna suggested as they walked into the elevator. "Hanna it's fine." He tried to calm her while pushing the button. "Can we go sit in the parking lot of an E.R instead of going to Time Square."
"Hanna you are taking this way to far." Caleb murmured hugging hand from behind. "Caleb it's not ok." Hanna cried starting to break down. "Baby you're fine." Caleb soothed, turning her around and cuddling her close.
"I don't want to die today." Hanna cried as he hugged her. "You'll be fine." Caleb soothed swaying them from side to side as they went down the elevator. He didn't blame her for acting like this, after all, everything that happened this year. This type of behavior didn't surprise him.
"Oh my god it's so pretty." Hanna smiled taking a video of all the lights. "Not as pretty as you babe." Caleb smirked wrapping his arms around her waist from behind and planting a quick kiss on her neck, causing Hanna to giggle as she attempted to send the video to her friends.
"Babe hold these." Hanna asked handing him two sparklers. Caleb held them while she grabbed a lighter out of her purse. "Do you smoke?" He asked very concerned. Hanna giggled "no I bought one so I didn't have to carry around a box of matches."
"Question Babe why does Aria want photos of us kissing again?" Caleb asked still slightly weirded out about why Aria had called them at three in the morning demanding a photo of them kissing in time square.
"I don't know, apparently for her photography class she needed to make a collage of people kissing and she wanted one of us in Time Square, anyway if you set my hair on fire I will legit fucking kill you." Hanna laughed pecking him on the lips.
"Ok ready." She asked. "Ready."
"1."
"2."
"3."
Caleb stopped the memory there, he couldn't take it anymore Hanna wasn't remembering him, the one person he loves with all his heart couldn't in love him back, he knew completely that it wasn't her fault but that didn't make it hurt any less.
Nothing ever would. Nothing ever would make it hurt any less. Caleb loved Hanna with all of his heart, he had to break his promise. A promise she would never know. It was over now. He had to let her go.
Of all the times Caleb had left Hanna's house in a hurry, this was the worst, the complete and utter worst. Throwing all his clothes in a bag. He began that walk, the walk he dreaded the most, the walk down those stairs, the leaving Hanna walk.
Caleb didn't want to leave but he had too, it was hurting her, he was hurting her. Here he was Caleb Rivers at the bottom of the stairs. It wasn't a pleasant night, the sky was dark, this wind was stirring, there was a storm coming.
Caleb's hand touched the doorknob, The door is opening, He can feel the cold winters night entering the house. This is it, this is the end, the end of Caleb & Hanna.
"Where are you going" A pajama clad Hanna says in a sad voice, walking up behind him stopping at the bottom of the stairs leaving a short distance between them, a distance that felt like a mile.
Caleb took his hand of the doorknob shutting the door keeping the cold outside. "I'm leaving" He says turning around to face her, As soon as Caleb saw her face he felt his heart drop, she's about to cry.
"W-Why are you leaving" She says choking on her words as the tears begin to brew on her perfect face. She crosses her arms, pulling the tightly against her chest, trying to keep herself warm.
"Because I have to help you" Caleb replied grasping the strap of his bag tightly before continuing "And I can't help you remember anything unless you completely trust me, Your Mom will be out of hospital in a few days so she can take care of you. You can trust her because you remember her, unlike me." Caleb said tears beginning to form in his eyes as well.
A tear rolls down her check "I'm sorry Caleb, I'm sorry that I have no memory, I'm sorry that I can't remember anyone except my Mom from my past life" She says before giving him a look of confusion "Wait, what do you mean by unlike me, d-did you know me before I lost my memories, is that why you've been taking care of me this whole time?" She says stuttering as another tears rolls down her check. Caleb then realized he'd broke the rules, he wasn't supposed to tell her that he knew her before she lost her memories but he couldn't go back now.
"Yes I did" Caleb shouted, upset as a tear rolled down his cheek too. He'd anticipated her to ask how she knew him but she doesn't, her sadness turns to anger as well "Why did you lie" She yells out as she silently cries "I thought you cared about me enough not to lie".
That shattered his heart into a million pieces "Hanna, of course I care about you, don't ever think for a second that I don't" Caleb yelled back at her taking a few steps closer to her. "I'm sorry I lied to you but I did it to help you, I want you to be able to heal properly instead of just telling you everything about you from your past life, so you wouldn't just panic and never remember anything ever again because I need to help YOU!" He screamed at her as tears continued to fall from his eyes.
"Why" She screamed even louder back at him, walking right up to him so there was barley any distance between them. "Why, Why do you want to help me" More tears fell from both of them showing their sadness and anger at the same. That's when he accidentally let it slip, the reason he'd been helping her this entire time.
"Because I'm in love with you Hanna."
There it is, the reason behind everything. She just stared at him, the tears stopped, she opens her mouth shocked. Hanna then takes a few steps back before leaning again the wall, covering her entire face with her hands then letting out the loudest, most heartbreaking cry he has ever heard in his life.
This is it, it's over, Caleb desperately wanted to walk back over to her and tell her everything will be ok but he couldn't, it wouldn't be doing her any good. He took the final steps to her door about to walk out for the final time, never to return.
"Caleb."
Her perfect elegant voice breathes out in one final attempt to get Caleb to stay. It doesn't work but it got him to stop, He just stood there staring at the door about to walk out of Hanna's life forever. Caleb took the final step forward, grabbing the doorknob.
"Caleb, please."
Caleb heard again, he desperately wanted to stay there with her, he couldn't though, he had to leave but he didn't move any distance further from her, he turned around and looked at Hanna. She's staring at him, still leaning against the wall, her hands are sticking out, like she just took them of her face, palms facing up to the roof, her face no longer has tears on it, they've dried. She opens her mouth and says.
"I remember you."
I wrote the ending scene around chapter 14, so I'm happy I finally get to post it. I hope you enjoyed, review xx
