She grasped at her hands, shutting her eyes at his words. Her heart was in agony; they had tore each other down, had acted like children and for what? She couldn’t remember anymore.
“I don’t know…I don’t know…” She sat cross-legged on the floor in front of him, head bowed. “I was scared.” She knotted her hands in her hair- she was so ashamed of herself. And it hurt so much, to know that she had complicated such an easy thing. Why did she need to ruin everything she touched?
He heaved a sigh and hung his head, his fingers lacing together behind it as he rested his elbows on his knees. At this point he was almost numb; with all the things they’d been through even just in the past two weeks with their fighting, he was thinking Keira might be starting to feel the same way. He glanced up, pain reflected in his eyes.
“Can we just hug each other and forget this even happened? Just…just forget all of this for a while?”
Even just for one night. He just wanted his world back. His normal - not Haven’s.
