Song: Chasing Cars

Artist: Snow Patrol

Characters: Greg Sanders/Sara Sidle

Let's waste time

Chasing cars

Around our heads

I need your grace

To remind me

To find my own

Of The Heart

Over 500 miles.

That's how far I've driven to find you, to pick you up when you've run away from your problems and can barely hold yourself together. Ten years of my life devoted to you and making sure you come home safe to a man that isn't me. Some people probably think I'm crazy, wasting my time on a woman who pays me no mind, uses me when she can't count on anyone else. I don't think of it that way though, mostly because I care about you too much. Because I'm so afraid of losing you.

And maybe I am crazy because I can't move on with my own life knowing you're so miserable with yours. I feel like I'm leaving you behind if I do, forcing you to pick up the pieces of your life and carefully putting them back together. Then again, maybe that is what you need.

And I know you're wondering what we're doing here, staring out at the crystal ocean with our bodies tangled together on the sand. You have your head lying on my stomach, watching me with those eyes. To tell you the truth, I'm not too sure what we are doing here. There were so many other ways to get my point across, but of course I choose the option that has us driving another 300 miles just to see this sunset.

I just want you to see that there are things in this life that are beautiful, and if you just take the time to sit and wait for them, then you will see. Slowly the sun begins its decent and your hand finds mine and your fingers tangle through my own, squeezing tightly. Neither one of us can look away.

"Thank you Greg," you murmur quietly, your body bathed in the glow of those last few rays. You look like our lost in your thoughts, a million miles away from this life.

"You're welcome," I say, letting my fingers travel through your hair. Watching the rise and fall of your chest I smile and realize this is all I really want, to see you happy.

500 miles.

Now that I think about it, it's not that far.