Forgetting Cynthia

Destination

"No time for goodbye he said as he faded away. dont put your life in someone elses hands they're bound to steal it away. Dont hide your mistakes cause they'll find you, burn you. then he said If you want to get out alive whoa oh run for your life." - Get out Alive, 3 days grace

A few years later.......

"When will he be here?!" I asked playfully. Although I was extremely agitated.

"Cynthia, he told you he would be here at noon." Caleb said taking a drink from his monster energy drink.

"How am I supposed to feel when he tells me that he needs five years to forget about me? Then out of the blue he calls me and tells me that he will see me at noon at this stupid park built near where we first met?" I ask with tears running down my face. My fingers over the wedding ring on my finger.

Caleb was quiet.

Five years ago...

It was about 4 in the morning. I heard sirens and I sat straight up. Next thing I know erik and caleb bust through the door, out of breath. Erik found my eyes and rushed to me holding me close to him.

"I cant do this Cynthia, I'm sorry. I have to forget you now. I cant stand being so close to you and not being able to help you. Please don't ask questions. Give me half a decade to forget that painfully gorgeous face of yours. Five whole years to forget your precious scent. 260 weeks to erase your musical laugh, to stop hearing your alluring voice in my head. 1,826 days to attempt to stop loving you. And have your kisses cease to set fire upon my lips" He kissed my forehead and then turned around, and left. He was covered in blood and dirt, and soot, he smelled like fire and fear but felt like love and passion. I watched his shoulders as he walked away. Before my mind could register, my feet were ungracefully running after him, I tripped and found my arms around his waist. He twisted his face in pain and a single tear escaped as he caught me.

"Don't leave me Erik! Please! I'm so sorry. Please just don't go! I love you!" I sobbed, pleading to him into his shirt that held the scent of danger. Those blue eyes devoid of light now met my green ones, the light slowly fading from my own as well.

"Marry caleb and I swear after those 5 years I will come back to you." He said and he left me on the floor broken and confused.

I finally acknowledged calebs presence 30 minutes later. He had packed for me and I realized he had soaking wet clothes on, cuts all over his skin, and more burn marks than I could count. We left about an hour afterwards. Both of us completely silent. We took the newly titled truck all the way to new York, and we got married. Eventually we talked to one another like we used to. We were best friends, although we rarely laughed or shared smiles, but neither of us ever spoke of that night. Or of that man. We never kissed except for the wedding day. We started completely new lives. Finished school, started college. I got a really good job at a car dealership as a mechanic. Caleb became a teacher. We lived in a nice home. We had a lot of money that we never touched after we got on out feet. The millions just collect interest in the account put under my name.

Then one day caleb was making spaghetti and our house phone rang. I hadn't even realized it had been five years. They were normal, lifeless years. I hadn't cut, as a new promise to that man. I felt like a shell of what I once was. I answered it since he had somehow gotten tomato paste all over him.

"I'll see you where we first fell for eachother.at noon." The line then went dead, but it didn't matter because I had already dropped the phone as tears came to my eyes. Something stirred inside of me. Something that had been sleeping for a very long time.