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three ([personal profile] threeplusfire) wrote2001-04-10 09:11 am

there is so much to say

I woke up this morning. You might as well be gone, being so far away that I can't see or touch or cry out to you. This leaving, this emptiness, this empty apartment you will never come back to. How many times I waited here on Friday nights, Saturday afternoons, for you to knock on the door even though you had a key. We talked about your grandmother on the balcony, and I felt so guilty that day because we had been making love while she was dying.

Remember when I asked you to run away, the first time in your driveway? Remember when the police chased out of the golf course parking lot, and my hands were shaking too hard to drive home. Remember how we would stay out all night, or up all night later, somewhere. That highway drive I will never make again, the one I could do in twenty minutes if I had too, speeding a little and cutting through the back roads.

I can't believe you're gone this time. It seems harder than before. I wonder if you had that little black and gold box in your pocket when we fought in IHOP on Friday night. You must have been carrying it the entire time. I keep seeing a ghost, a flash of light when I turn my head too fast. God, why is it this way? Of all the people in the world, you would think we would merit a second chance, the time and the place to start our lives over, why isn't it us?

I can feel my eighteen year old heart, the one that would scream out for blood in this moment. And my twenty year old heart that feels too old to know what to do. A ridiculous thing, to feel so damn old so seriously when one is twenty. All I want to do is crawl into the shower and back to bed, go nowhere else at all for a time.

Curled up in this chair, eating Indian food out of a styrofoam container and drinking ginger ale. My stomach hurts, my head hurts. I don't even really remember the dreams, just the copper numbers on the doors. It doesn't feel like Tuesday. There is a brief moment of sunlight, and I watch the wind shake the trees.

Lousy

[identity profile] hex.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
As a random person who's never met you, and doesn't even live on the same continent as you, I can't claim any connection with you. But as someone also experiencing love-related trouble, I understand what you mean about feeling old at twenty - I'm also twenty - and wanting to just stay in bed and go away from the world. It's a lousy damned feeling.

I hope things get better for you.

maybe we could just switch cities and everything would right itself

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
But sometimes, it is the totally random people you don't know who make you smile. I hope your day gets better too. Thanks.

[identity profile] jengirl.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
I'm wanting to know what happened. :<

Sending you warm fuzzies of love.

the short version

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Probably I will write about it later in more detail. but the short form is that I sent my fiance/boyfriend/friend back to New Jersey today and told him I couldn't wear the most beautiful incredible perfect thoughtful ring he brought to Texas. I'm just not ready to say yes, no matter how much I want to. It was so hard. And it hurt so much more than I thought it would to watch him leave this time.

I have to figure out where I'm going, what I want, what I can do. It's driving me crazy not knowing.

Re: the short version

(Anonymous) 2001-04-10 08:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry sweetie. *big hugs* I'm thinking of you.

day for hugs, I think

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 08:27 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. That really does mean something to me.

[identity profile] seitvonzu.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
he sound like he will be yours till you both have gray hair.

and that feel of not being quite ready to be a grown up, i'm guessing it will last till gray hairs come as well... well into them (i'm hoping at least)

its sad to hear your hurting. do let your self hibernate a while, spring will knock for you soon enough. the leftover dinner and ginger ale thought brings me a resigned smile; i know everyone says something like this, and it doesn't of course mean anything to your particular situation...but that is an image i've been in. please take care and do have it out if you need to.

Re:

[identity profile] tsarina.livejournal.com 2001-04-10 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There is something both melancholy and profoundly satisfying about leftover Indian food the next day.

And I'm hoping maybe that we will get our grey hair together, that things will work out. Though I want white hair! :D (I suppose it is a good sign when you can still laugh)