OMNISCIENT - day before Drea leaves
Marco and Drea sat inside of STK, enjoying a nice dinner. He planned a special day for her, starting with breakfast in bed. Next he sent her off to a spa and to get her nails and hair done while he and his brother shipped off the last few boxes that Drea wanted in Atlanta. Once that was finished, he went and bought her a beautiful parting gift then sent her details for their date.
Drea had been in awe all day with the spoiling she'd received. She couldn't think of a moment when she hadn't smiled and that had her thinking. A new scenery sounded good, healing in Atlanta seemed right but how could being alone help her.
"Baby...Drea." Marco snapped his fingers in her face, finally making her look at him. "Hell you over there thinking about?"
"Nothing." She laughed.
"You sure. I called you about twenty times."
"I'm sorry, just reminiscing on how amazing today was, thanks to you."
"Anything for my baby."
"You're so perfect Marco and I just keep putting you through all this mes—."
"Nah, we not doing that tonight. I don't want any sad shit. I want our last night together to be a good one."
Blinking away her tears Drea nodded. "I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize."
"So, when are you going to come visit me in Atlanta?"
Marco didn't want to talk about Atlanta at all. He wanted to live in the moment. Pretend that she wasn't leaving and that when he woke up tomorrow he wouldn't be taking her to the airport, she'd be staying right here with him. "Soon, gotta move some shit around first."
"Okay."
The both of them felt the energy dwindling down.
"Marco I—."
"You can't leave."
"What happened to not ruining the moment?"
"Haven't you been happy lately? Felt at peace? Everything has been so good here. I hate to be selfish, I hate for you to feel like I'm not supporting you because that's not the case. I wanna support you, I want to help you heal but I want that to happen here. Be honest, when the last time you thought about any of the bad stuff that happened?"
"I don't know."
"Because you're healing Drea, you're moving on. You don't need to run like you always do. Sometimes you just gotta face your demons head on to defeat them and baby you're doing that."
Drea sighed. "I know how badly you don't want this to happen but Marco, I want you to understand that for years, I've been doing shit that makes everybody else happy. For once I have to try something for myself. It's unfair that you chose today to just spring this on me."
"So you telling me I could've changed your mind if I spoke up sooner?"
"Maybe! You had me thinking you were accepting me leaving. Why lie?"
"Cause I really did want to be okay with this. I didn't want to harbor you with my pain knowing all the shit you got going on. Like I told you before, I'm tired of all the back and forth. I want us to be locked in, stay solid. How are we supposed to build our future together with you in another state?"
"Atlanta isn't permanent."
"So I'm supposed to sit around and wait until you're ready to come home? Now that's you being selfish."
