*** Taylor’s POV***
As light started to pour in through the windows my eyes started to slowly flutter open and I felt a warm body pressing into me and keeping me warm. Cale’s scent immediately filled my nose and I cuddled deeper into his arms feeling safe as I had ever been. Cale’s arms tightened around me pulling me closer. Then thoughts about Dane flitted into my head and I held back a sob.
I slowly crawled out from underneath his arms trying not to wake him. I went to his room where there was a drawer of my things. I found running shoes, shorts, and stole one of Cale’s old T-Shirts. I found a piece of paper and wrote a note to Cale saying that I had gone running not to worry I would be back in a few hours. To make sure he found it I stuck it right on his forehead.
I plugged in my headphones to my phone and started to run. Run such a simple three letter word yet it always had kept me from going over my limits. The day after the accident was the first time I had ever run. Ever since then every time I had a problem I ran until I figured it out. Sometimes it was so bad I would find myself miles and miles from where I had started and I would have no clue where I was.
As I put in my headphones Flyleaf’s All Around Me started to play totally summing up how I felt. As my feet started to pound against the ground I lost my self in the song.
My hands are searching for you
My arms are outstretched towards you
I feel you on my fingertips
My tongue dances behind my lips for you
This fire rising through my being
Burning I'm not used to seeing you
I'm alive, I'm alive
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healing
My hands float up above me
And you whisper you love me
And I begin to fade
Into our secret place
The music makes me sway
The angels singing say we are alone with you
I am alone and they are too with you
I'm alive, I'm alive
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healing
And so I cry
The light is white
And I see you
I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healing
Take my hand
I give it to you
Now you own me
All I am
You said you would never leave me
I believed you
I believe
I can feel you all around me
Thickening the air I'm breathing
Holding on to what I'm feeling
Savoring this heart that's healed
Soon I found myself over 5 miles away from Cale’s house and not any closer to figuring this all out. I thought about all the good times we had had over the last year. All the time his hands were on me and his lips on my own. All the sweet words and looks.
Yet I still couldn't get that image of him kissing Anna out of my head. No matter how hard I tried every time I thought about him that image came into my head. Could I ever love him again could I ever trust him again?
I just didn't know what to do. All those tears I have seen my friends cry over guys all the hurt they felt couldn’t even compare to what I was feeling. I felt like half of myself I was gone. I felt like everything was upside down.
Maybe I was better off without him. Maybe the rest of the year I would just concentrate on sports and grades. Maybe after seeing him every day, day after day it wouldn’t hurt so much. What the hell how could it ever not hurt! The man I thought I was going to marry will never be that guy again and maybe one day it will stop hurting but not anytime soon.Soon I realized I was running up Cale’s drive way and once again nothing could prepare me for what I saw.
***Author’s Note***
Hi everyone so as I promised before 10 pm another update. So sorry for the cliffhangers but it always feels so right to end a chapter on them. Please listen to the song with the chapter it makes it fit so much better! Also the picture on the side is of Dane!
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I Should Have Known
Teen Fiction17 year old Taylor Brooks has it. She has the brains, the body, and the boy. Nothing in her life could get any better. But what happens when you throw in childhood best friend Cale Parker. Sparks will fly for sure but will they just ignite a burning...