Unpredictable Love II

Chapter 124

Harry's POV

"Karleigh?" I manage.

She jumps up from her crouched, seated position outside my apartment door. Her back is to me, but I can see her hands swiping furiously at her face.

When she finally turns around, my heart breaks. Her eyes are red and puffy, her cheeks are stained with tears.

"Karleigh, what are you doing out here? Why didn't you come inside?" I blurt my questions one after the other.

She's so choked up she can't manage to respond to my twenty questions. Only shrug profusely.

"Karleigh?" I repeat for a third time. "It's almost 2am, how long have you been sitting out here?"

Her eyes refuse to meet mine. A hushed whimper escapes her lips and I can't help but take a step closer to her.

"I came..." she starts, but breaks off her sentence.

My arm is partly outstretched towards her. She eyes my hand with a weary expression. My lips part again to ask her another question, but she cuts me off.

"Aunt Jocelyn.. she," Karleigh takes two deep breaths to steady her shaky voice. "She told me to take a drive, so I came here." She vaguely explains.

"Come inside then." I encourage.

Something about my words sets her eyes ablaze. In a childish manor she stomps her foot and shoves her hands into her already tangled waves of blonde.

"I CAN'T, don't you see!" Her tone raises in pitch and volume. Her dainty hands are yanking on the roots of her hair and fresh tears are streaming down her face.

"I CANNOT COME INSIDE HARRY! I'm bad for you! I keep, h-hurting you. And..." Her voice fades as her sobs begin to rake through her body.

"And what?" I plead.

Her hands drop to her sides limply, her crystal eyes rise to meet mine and I'm once again met with the lifeless girl who I took home from the hospital.

"And I need to know." she whispers.

"Know what?" Anything she needs to know, I'll tell her. What? What is it?

"Do you still want me." She's not asking me. She's telling me what she needs to know. But her eyes are weary as she awaits my decision. Is there even a decision to be made? Didn't I decide I wanted her long ago when I saw her stumbling drunkenly down that God damned sidewalk!

She mistakes my silence as an answer and I swear I can visibly see her heart plummet.

"I guess I knew that all along... I just wanted to be sure." Karleigh's raspy voice mumbles.

Her back is facing me again and she's leaving my doorway.

"Karleigh" my lips call out.

She stops walking.

"You don't get to walk away from me." I snap, almost angrily.

Whirling around her eyes meet mine.

"I wish you knew how much I love you! You keep underestimating my love for you every time you think I'll leave you for something petty. This wasn't your fault."

Her feet are coming back towards me now, and I feel my feet doing the same.

"As long as I have you by my side I'll get through this. We'll get through this together, we can have another baby. But I will not let you, or me for that matter, keep trying to walk out on each other. I can do without all the rest, but I need you."

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Karleigh's POV

"..I can do without all the rest, but I need you."

My heart is racing, as I stand right in front of him.

"Harry..." I start to say but his finger presses against my lips to show he isn't finished with his speech.

"Karleigh Jane Grey, don't you understand I need you in my life. For now and forever." As he speaks these words, he leans down. My head tilts to the side as I watch him kneel onto one knee.

"Karleigh, marry me. Please, I can't be without you. Marry me." He whispers, tears sliding down his cheeks from his knelt position.

Without thinking, I drop to my knees right I front of him and gently press my lips to his. His hands slither around my waist, holding me close to him. I tear my lips away from his momentarily. "Yes." I whisper before reuniting our lips.

Harry deepens our kiss, and I can feel the happiness radiating off of him, even in this dark time of ours.

And I know now, in this moment that he is right. Together we are unstoppable. If I have to face every problem life throws my way for the rest of my life, I only want to do it with him.