My Heart Will Choose (Luke Hemmings Fanfiction)

Chapter 14

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Songs for this Chapter are:

Mayday Parade - Jamie All Over

Marianas Trench - Fix Me

Real Friends - Skeletons

Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Katy McAllister - Another Empty Bottle

Tokio Hotel - Run, Run, Run

Rebekka was searching for something in her purse and was cursing quietly. I tried my best to concentrate on driving and not to laugh. "THERE IT IS!", she finally screamed and held an USB stick in her hand. She looked at me with a pleading expression as if she was waiting for permission to listen to it.
"What is this?", I asked while turning the wheel to the left, smiling.
"It's a playlist I made with all my fav songs on. I always carry it with me, adding some new songs whenever I find a new one", she didn't look me in the eye but kept staring at my hands on the wheel.
I grabbed the item from her hands and put it in the radio. Rebekka smiled at me for the split of a second before turning away and staring out of the window.
The playlist started off with the song "Jersey" by Mayday Parade and I was smiling to myself, slowly tapping my fingers on the wheel along to the melody of the song that used to be one of my favorites, myself.

We've been driving for a while and were almost in Connecticut when Rebekka got pretty silent next to me. I dared to take a look, just checking and was surprised to see her sitting there fully asleep. Her lips were slightly parted and her head softly tilted to the front. I smiled to myself again and turned my head back to the road.
It filled me with so much gratification that she felt so comfortable around me. It actually made me feel kind of proud.
"Down" by blink-182 just came to an end and I was patiently waiting for the next song to start. When it eventually did, it catched me off-guard. Didn't I know this melody? I tried to recognize the song while concentrating on the drums and the strings played on a guitar.
Within a minute I was all packed up..

My fingers were digging into the leather of the steering wheel, while my hands were gripping it tight.
Beside You.. This was an acoustic version of our song Beside You.
I don't even know why it catched me off-guard, but it did. This song always made me feel kind of intimidated but knowing that SHE put it on a playlist filled with all of HER favorite songs made me feel somehow..sad. I think a person's favorite song says a lot about them and how they feel and think.
What does she think about when she listens to Beside You?

After an hour or two later we finally arrived at our destination: Marina Bay in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Rebekka woke up next to me, while I tried to find a parking lot near the bay. A light smile was formed on her lips when she realized we were there.
"You had a nice nap there, huh?", I said, quietly laughing and mimicking her sleeping face.
She just teasingly sticked her tongue out and then turned around to face the bay, while I parked the car.
"Rebekka? Can I ask you something?", I held the keys in my hand and rested my head on the headrest, staring at her.
"Uh oh. Sounds like you're up to no good", she confusingly replied. I just kept staring and she slightly smiled again: "Shoot"
"Why Quincy? Like why did you choose the Marina Bay?"

Rebekka's face froze and she looked down on her fumbling hands. Her lips formed a silent "please don't" and she quickly got out of the car.
When I got out, myself, I saw Rebekka furiously trying to open the trunk and slamming her hands against the window, when she realized it didn't work. I shoved the keys into my pocket and slowly got closer to her. "Hush, sweetheart", I said, pulling her close to my chest. At first she refused to get into the hug, but seconds later she wrapped her arms around my torso, gripping tight and trying to hold back tears filled with too much painful memory. Rebekka breathed heavily and I ran my hand through her hair, whispering "Please calm down. Everything's going to be alright"
She just shook her head and broke out into destructive sobbings.
She broke down, still in my arms and we sat down on the ground behind the car. My back leaning against the trunk, Rebekka sobbing into my arms, I felt my own sadness and darkness creeping back. I tried to ignore it and caressed Rebekka's back in slow movements.

In between silent "I'm sorry" 's and powerful "Don't be" 's she put herself back together and her breathing got back to normal.
"C'mon", I said. "Let's go for a walk. Show me around a bit, would you?"
I smiled at her, still sitting on the ground and she got up.
"Sounds good", she said, her voice and attitude back to normal, like she didn't just cry into my arms for an hour straight. I got up, myself and we started walking towards the shore, side by side.

Rebekka intertwined her hand with mine but when I turned my head to look at her, she didn't smile at me as expected but stared into the distance at the horizon. Her mind seemed far away and even the touch of our hands seemed distant right in that moment.
I didn't try, neither did I even find the courage to ask once again what it is about this place that made her so emotional.
Instead, I just kept staring at her staring at the horizon because even though she seemed to be far away in thoughts, she seemed to be in peace in that very moment and she looked so dramatically pretty with the last trail of sunshine dancing along the dried teardrops on her skin.
"It is beautiful, isn't it?", she broke the silence but her gaze was still on the sunset.
"Absolutely", I agreed, knowing we both were talking about two different things.

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