Walk Away

I’ve been thinking a lot about what Kyla said; the whole having to tell Aiden about why I broke up with him. I was planning on doing it, I really was. I just didn’t wanna do it this soon…

Knock Knock

“Come in.”

“Hey…”

“Aiden, what are you doing here?”

“Ash, we need to talk. Why? Was it something I did? Baby I’m sorry, just please don’t do this again! I need you. I love you.”

“Aiden stop it! Seriously, you need to stop. Look, it’s over. You need to accept it. It wasn’t anything you did. This is all on me. I made the mistake.”

“Ash what we have isn’t a mistake. It’s true love.”

“No, it’s not.”

“How do you figure otherwise? You left Spencer for me. You left her because what you had with her wasn’t anything close to what we have.”

“Leaving her for you was a big mistake. Listen, I thought about this, long and hard, and I realized that I only got back with you because I felt guilty. I mistook guilt for love and it would’ve been wrong for me to keep up something that would’ve just ended up way worse than it already has.”

“You’re wrong. You’re so wrong Ash. She doesn’t know you like I do!”

“Do you really even know me Aiden? Like seriously, do you?”

“Of course I do! I love you!”

“Really? Then what’s my favorite color?”

“Easy, red.”

“Wrong. It’s black.”

“What? Black is so not a color! It’s a shade.”

“Whatever. What’s my favorite movie?”

“Uhh…The Notebook?”

“Wrong.”

“Damn it.”

“Yeah…”

“C’mon, what do these questions have to do with anything? They’re trivial things that don’t mean anything!”

“Are you kidding me Aiden? These “trivial things” are what make me, me! They mean everything. If you can’t even answer these simple things then how can you say you love me? You can’t love someone you don’t know, not really.”

“But…”

“No Aiden. There’s no but.”

“You know she’ll never love you like I do Ash…”

“Well, there’s one thing you have right.”

“Wait, WHAT?!”

“She won’t love me like you do. She’ll love me more. She does love me more. She knows everything about me. Before this whole mess started and we were together, she’d call me in the middle of the day just to tell me she loved me. She’d stay on the phone with me all night when I had a nightmare. Just one look in my eyes and she’d know something was wrong and she wouldn’t give up and get mad when I’d deny it. She knew I’d end up telling her.”