sorry // justin bieber

35.- you can't go back

Justin

"Is it really me that you want back?" she asks me after giving me a sad look. I don't know what she means.

"Of course I want you" I reply.

"I feel like it would be a mistake to go back with you" she confesses me, looking at her lap before shooting me straight in the eye with her hazel ones.

"No," I start, "no, no, no, it wouldn't" I reach for her and she laughs.

"Why do you really want me back, Justin?"

"Because I love you" I say, thinking it's an obvious response.

"I think you're scared" she tells me leaning back on her chair.

"Scared?" I repeat, "Scared of what?"

"I don't know, exactly" I hate when she's being like this, all mysterious and stuff. We are talking about something specific here. Why does everybody keep trying to psychoanalyze me lately?

"Listen, Hailey" I say slowly, "I just want things to go back to what they used to be".

"That's where you're wrong" she says with a tone like explaining a child why they can't take their fish out for a walk, "you can't make things go back to what they used to be, you can't go back, you can't undo something" she shakes her head lightly, "You can only move forward. Things change, and you have to accept that".

"Have your feelings changed?" I ask her, a little scared of the answer.

"No" she admits, probably looking sadder than she intends to, "but yours have".

I look at her in confusion.

"You may still like me" she continues, "but it's not the same, it'll never be".

"But why?"

"You couldn't even tell me you where sad, Justin" she pleads, "how are we supposed to move on from there?"

"Well, we could at least try"

"What about that other girl?"

I get a shivering sensation when she brings Halley to the conversation.

"It seems to me you're looking for reasons not to stay with me" I blurt.

"What about the other girl?" she repeats her question.

"What about her?" I say carelessly "She's just a fan".