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Tell me what I did so next time I can avoid it Tell me what to do so I can try to , so I can stop thinking that you’re about to walk away fro for her response, was agony

Words: Nothing, Stranger Nothing And walk from you? Like you said, I don’t know if I’d be able to

Then talk toand when you next texted me?

Words: A lot

Words: I don’t kno to talk to you tonight I don’t knohat to say to you Everything that is running through ht now is too personal, and we don’t do personal

You know me better than anyone I know you, Words

Words: Not like this This would change things

Try

Long ave her the time she needed and tried to stay patient as I waited

Words: To put it as si, and it made me want to tear myself away from every happiness that I’ve recently found, and any I could possibly find in the future

Words: It was innocent, really The person had no clue what kind of devastation they would inflict onnow Everything hurts It hasn’t hurt like this in so long

I felt helpless I needed to reach through the phone and grab her, pull her into o But she wasn’t real

You’re not going to tell me what the question was, are you?

Words: I can’t

Words: And that’s why tonight isn’t a good idea I don’t have anything I can say to you

I think that’s why tonight is a perfect idea I can’t leave you when you hurt

Words: I won’t be any fun

I doubt that

Words: I’

You have no idea how much I wish I could be there to dry your tears

Words: My heart

Words: Stranger, don’t Don’t Didn’t you just hear me? I already want to tear myself away from the happiness that I’ve found Don’t make me wish that you would hurry up and find me just so I could rip myself away from you, too

Fuck if you think I’d let you rip yourself away froo

Words: There you go sweeping er

Words: How is it possible that I’irl you’ll one day leave me for, when you can’t leave what you never found?

I dropped my phone on my chest and let my eyes shut I wanted to swear that I wouldn’t leave I wanted to tell her that I would find her

But I couldn’t

Words was my outlet She was the only person who had allowedly forced me to see what I really wanted out of life, when I’d spent years thinking I was happy inthat connection, scared the hell out of ht of Words, I only ever pictured one thing A thousand faces blurred into one Always one

One I could reach out and touch

One as real

One I would give up everything for

Charlie

Chapter Fourteen

Charlie

June 18, 2016

DEACON SIGHED AS he unfurled his large frame from under the hood of my car "It’ll run for a day or twouardedly "Charlie Girl, I’m serious You--"