Heart Songs Presents: All or Nothing at All

Prologue.....

The blaring sound of the cars honking in the street almost drowned the heated conversation on the sidewalk. It was a very hot day and the fact that the sun was at its peak only added to the blazing current where their argument was heading to. 

                “Jenny, it’s time you choose whether it’s me or him. I’m tired of playing your cruel games which I always know I’m gonna lose anyway. So please, it’s time you make the choice,” he said, agony and sadness showing on his face.

                “You have no right to call me cruel, Brian. Look at us now, you’re telling me to make a choice which you know is very hard for me to do. Tell me who’s cruel now?” she replied, tears streaming down her face.

The wind blew a very humid air and sweat trickled down in their faces, but that was not all in there. “So what do you want us to do? Just go on like this. Go on living this world we created just to keep you safe. Maybe you’re happy on what’s going but not me. I’m tired of this!” he shouted, clenching his fist from despair.

Her hand flew soundly to his face. “How dare you even think that I’m happy? If you think that this is my definition of happy, then you don't know me at all! I'm suffering right now but I keep trying because I want this to work out!” she yelled back, more tears flowing down in her pearly sweated skin.

Brian touched the cheek she slaps and shook his head. “This is never gonna work out. Not as long as your holding a candle to him. I can’t pretend anymore, Jenny. I just can’t. So I’m making this easy for you!”

                “No, no, no!” she shouted. “You’re making it very hard for me. Maybe we should talk about this when we’re calmer.” She said, wiping away her tears. She started turning away but his hand stopped her.

                “No, Jenny. It’s All or Nothing. You need to choose now because if we do it later… if we do it later, I might be insane by then.” he said, sorrow printed in his tanned face.

She shrugged his hand out, shaking her head and running across the street. She wiped away all the tears with the back of her hand, causing her not to notice the stoplight turning green.

                “Jenny!” a shout rang behind her.

She lifted her head and froze in place. An incoming 10-wheeler truck was in front of her and she stood there, paralyzed from fear. She saw the driver shifted the wheel all too late and her life flashed before her eyes. They all lied. They said that when you die, your past will flash before you but no, the memories were not from the past but from the future. The things that she will never have, the things that she will never do, the decisions that she will never make, and the love that she will never find.

Everything happened so fast that once the world stopped spinning, she was sitting at the sidewalk staring at the wreckage.

She stared at the unmoving body of the person she knew so much. It came back then. He pushed her just as the truck was about to hit her. He sacrificed his life for hers and she might never…she might never get the chance to say those three words that she know could change their whole lives.

                “Brian!!!” she screamed and ran towards him with dread filling her heart.