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“Just friends,” he whispers against my mouth. “You can at least give me that.”
“Friends can’t kiss each other, Travis.”
“We can, and tonight we should discuss how things will work out moving forward.”
Despite my heart begging me to stop doing this to him—tous, I shake my head.
“Friends don’t make long-term plans and promises to each other either,” I say. “That’s not how it works.”
“Then we’ll need to call what we have something else. This time, let’s pretend that—”
“No.” I push his hands away before he can finish. “My heart can’t take this anymore.”
“Take what?” He looks into my eyes. “If you don’t love me anymore, or if you’ve found someone else, just fucking say it.”
“It’s not that.”
“It feels like it.”
“Doctor Frayser to the O.R., please!” A voice comes over the speaker system. “Doctor Frayser to the O.R., please!”
“Look, Travis.” Tears prick my eyes as he grips my waist. “I think it’s best if we go our separate ways and pretend like we never met.”
The hopeful look in his eyes fades.
“Penelope needs all your attention now, and it’d be foolish for you to focus on anyone else for a single second. Besides, I need to work on myself and now isn’t a good time.”
“So, you’re going with the ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ approach?” he asks.
“No. Stop acting like—”
“I fucking love you?” He hisses. “Likethat?”
“Like this wasn’t always bound to come to an end.” I choke. “We can’t be right now. It’s not our time, but if we’re meant to be…”
He tightens his grip on my waist and pulls me closer, as if he's waiting for me to finish that sentence, to serve some soothing hope.
The words never come.
Finger by finger, he loosens his hold on me.
“I’ve never wanted someone as much as I wanted you,” he says. “And I never will.”
“You don’t know that yet.”
“I do.” He walks away without another word, carrying bits and pieces of my broken heart with him.
I want to follow and tell him I’m making a huge mistake, but I don’t.
I leave the hospital and force myself to quit him cold turkey.
No Google searches.
No article reads.
No sports channels.
Travis Carter doesn’t exist.
