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"I can’t be with you"

"You are with me, Meredith"

I shake ertips Jesus, how do I find the words for this?

"I don’t think I can be in a relationship with you" The last feords are said on a sob His jaw drops just as the nurse bustles in

"Okay, Mr Willia hi room and outside

Fuck me, I don’t haveup tolot and realize I don’t have a ride ho out here any second

"I need to leave, Natalie"

"Is he okay?"

"Yes, he’s just scraped up He’ll be fine" This tiood" She breathes a sigh of relief and then sobers when she sees the look onI just broke it off with Mark"

"Wow, talk about kicking a man when he’s down"

"Fuck you, Natalie You don’t know h" It’s not her fault, but I can’t stopafter her verbally, and I hate myself even more for it "You haven’t had to bury your parents and your sister and watch everyone around you that you love the most die!"

"Yes I have"

"And you haven’t…" I stop, stunned "What?"

"My parents both died when I was in college," she replies calmly "I’m an only child"

I blink twice and feel about three inches tall

"Scared you, didn’t it?"

"I’ terrified"

Nat nods and pushes her hair out of her face as the wind kicks up "He won’t let you just break it off, you know"

"He doesn’t have a choice"

She narrows her eyes and watchesme off even more

"Why would you do this? Even a blind woman can see that you’re coive hiainst the bile rising in my throat "Than have to lose him the way I did my sister and oodbye to him, Natalie I can’t do that"

"I don’t kno anyone can do that," she says softly, her own eyes full of tears "What a horrible thing, Meredith But you don’t know that you would ever be in that situation"

"I don’t know that I won’t"

"You didn’t strike me as a quitter"

My eyes whip over to hers "I Can’t Do It"

She nods thoughtfully, then hugs me as Jax pulls his car up to us "Think it over A love like yours doesn’t co every day, you know Love hile day, so at the end of it all, you can say you don’t have any regrets, Mer Life’s too short for that, and no one knows that better than you and le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>