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I have to let her go.
But I can’t.
{Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
‘Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
‘Cause you loved her too much and you dived too deep}
I lay in the hospital bed with Nevaeh cuddled into my side as she sleeps.
I stare up at the ceiling as we lie in the dark, thoughts and memories rushing through my head.
All the times she put me in my place instead of putting up with my bullshit.
All the times she told me she loves me.
All the times she gave me her beautiful smile.
All the times she acted like everything was okay when it wasn’t.
What happens when she…leaves?
As much as I should regret getting close to her, I don’t.
I don’t regret anything.
I don’t regret getting close to her, I don’t regret kissing her, and I sure as hell don’t regret telling her I
love her.
I love her too much and I dove too deep.
I have to let her go.
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But I can’t.
{Well you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go… }
{Oh, oh, woah, oh, oh
And you let her go
Oh, oh, woah, oh, oh
When you let her go
Whoa}
I’m going to miss her. So, so much.
I have to let her go.
But I can’t.
{‘Cause you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
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‘Cause you only need the light when it’s burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go… }
“Noah?” She whispers weakly.
“Yeah, Carter?” I look down at her.
She lifts her hand and touches my lips softly. “You have to let me go.”
I can’t.
-Third Person-
“Pebble…?” Nevaeh mumbles, trying to sit up.
Noah scrambles to help her sit up, doing the best he can not to hurt her. “Yes, Carter?”
Nevaeh reaches over to the plastic bag that Megan had brought in earlier and pulls something out.
“Marry me?” She questions.
Noah’s eyes widen, his eyes stinging.
“I never thought I would ever love someone as much as I love you. You…what do people call it? Make fireworks explode when you kiss me? Release a zoo of wild animals in my stomach? I don’t fucking know. You make me feel all weird and fuzzy inside. You’ve got your whole life ahead of you-”
Noah cuts her off when he realises where her speech is headed. “Carter, stop-”
“Shut up and listen to me, boy!” Nevaeh cuts him off. “You need to move on. But that’s not the point. I can actually say that you’re the love of my life since I’m leaving today.”
“Don’t say that.” Noah cuts in yet again, his eyes watering.
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She ignores him, her eyes getting glassy. “We’ve had our ups and downs. I regret leaving but I had no choice. I left and you hated me.”
“I never hated you, Carter.” Noah whispers. “I could never hate you.”
Nevaeh smiles slightly, bringing a hand up to his face and running a thumb over his dimple. “I can honestly say that you made the last four years the best years of my life, even though I was in New Zealand for two of them. And I am so, so grateful to have met you.”
She pauses, coughing into her hand, a bit of blood coming out.
She tries to hide it but Noah sees.
“Carter…” he grabs a tissue from the side tray and wipes her hand before throwing the bloody tissue
in the bin.
She takes a deep breath before carrying on. “You make me so happy. I never thought I’d be happy after Heaven and Lucy, but then you walked into my life, just like in a movie. Seriously, when I first saw you, it was like Mean Boys or something.”
Noah chuckles as Nevaeh grabs his hand.
“So, Pebble,” she starts, holding up a red ring pop. Only Nevaeh. “Marry me and be my husband for
the next three hours or so?”
Three hours.
Noah gives her a dimpled smile. “Of course, Carter.”
Nevaeh gives him a dimpled smile right back and slips the ring finger onto his pinky seeing as it wouldn’t fit on any other finger.
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