Prompt: Eugene - "The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second. Even a sneeze can reach a hundred miles per hour. And as for life? Well... that just bloody whizzes by." - 'Torchwood'
Looking out of my bedroom window into our backyard, I can make out the two figures that are Kurt and Blaine lying in the hammock. Other than the actual graduation ceremony, those two had been inseparable. They knew that with Kurt's graduation, their time together was quickly coming to an end and they were determined to make the most of the time they did had.
Unlike Rachel and me.
Not long ago the two of us were planning on getting married and now I wasn't even sure if we were meant to be. Rachel was destined for big things. She was destined for New York. The fact that she got into NYADA was proof of that.
Even Kurt was destined for New York, though my stepbrother had his doubts right now. I knew my stepbrother and I knew he would bounce back from this rejection. He would figure out another path to his dreams but he would never lose sight of that dream. New York had been a dream of his since before the two of us were friends.
As for me, my dreams had crumbled last fall. Football was the only thing I had ever pictured myself doing. Without football I had felt like a fish out of water, unsure what to do with myself. Even now, officially a high school graduate, I didn't know where to go. I wasn't even sure how I had gotten this far. It seemed like such as hort time ago that I was starting high school and now I was expected to go off into the world on my own.
I felt lost and I knew I couldn't drag Rachel down with me. She had a plan and a future. I wasn't about to let her throw that away and stay her with me. She was going to New York, and if I had to break up with her to do that, then I was willing to make that sacrifice. Life moved too fast for her to wait for me to figure things out. Getting Rachel to New York was the only thing I had figured out right now and maybe for now that was enough.
Just like for Kurt, being with Blaine in the backyard hammock was enough for now.