@girlfraud asked: “i️ miss you so much.”
you’d warned her you would die young, that one day, even everything that you knew wouldn’t be enough to save you. you knew it would happen, and you made sure she knew, too, but it hasn’t made it any easier. for so long, you were convinced that death would finally bring you the ease you’d longed for ever since you lost your family, but even in death, there’s no stopping the ache, not as long as she’s hurting.
in some ways, you wish you would have never saved her from the police that night. you could have let them take her and max in, let them waste away in prison for years, because at least then, she wouldn’t be hurting like this. ( if you’d only kept on driving that night, you’d still be alive now, but that’s not what matters. that’s never mattered to you. ) you wouldn’t have stolen her heart, unable to give it back when yours stopped. you wish more than anything that you could give it back, that there were some way to make her stop loving you, because for as long as she does, the ache will never end. that’s all you want for her.
if only you could speak to her, let her know that you miss her, too. that none of it was her fault, that she couldn’t have prevented it. you never would have lived a long life, with or without her.
it’s enough to make you numb, the knowledge that only a few months ago, you’d hear those very same words, only to reply, i’ll be home soon, never seeming to consider the day you wouldn’t. you’d do it all over again, relive that dreaded night, suffer through all those years of misery and grief, it only it meant you could come home to her that night, instead of make her come to you: already lifeless, bled out, phone in your hand, ring in your pocket. it’s not what you deserve; the world’s better off without you around to taint it any further, to stain the streets any more red than you already have, but you don’t care about the rest of the world. you’d kill them all if it meant you could be with her again. you’d kill them all if it meant you could tell her you miss her, too.