My Way? - Laurance x Reader (PDH Version)

Chapter 24 - Is It Really?

Chapter 24 - Is It Really?

*Your POV*

I just stare him down.

"(Y/n), I love you, I always have..please. None of those things were fake, I was only a coward...and a jerk. I'm sorry, please." He pleads.

I shake my head and give him a sad smile. "Laurance, it's too late." I take a deep breath. "I did, too. I loved you too. But right now, I'm just done."

"(Y/n)..."

"I always thought I had a chance, which I also thought was dumb." I shrug. "But now you're too late.."

"That's okay, I-I'll still be here for you. I'll show you I'm different." He grabs my arms and squeezes it, begging.

I shake my head. "It's too late, there's nothing for you to show." We look like a mess, just the two of us there, tears in our eyes.

"Please.. (Y/n), you turned me into something I never thought I would be, in a good way. I was always one to show if I have feelings for someone. But with you, (Y/n), there's something about you that made me feel different. Please, I can't lose you. Please.."

*Laurance's POV*

"Please..." I beg.

She smiled at me, the kind of smile that isn't sad. But for me, it was painful. "Then you won't," she starts. "But we can only be friends, no more than that." She takes my hand. "Maybe go back to the way it was; when nothing was wrong and we were okay."

I had nothing to say. All I could do was stare at her. I don't know if I'm happy about this or hurt. Because I missed the opportunity to actually love her, and care for her, and make her feel special. Instead I showed my feelings in some jerky way, in the way that I hurt and humiliated her.

Take it back, please take it all back. I just want to go back in time and change every single thing I did. Then maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't be crying here under this tree. Then she wouldn't feel so hurt and humiliated by me. The one she least expected to do so, just did. "(Y/n)... Please, give me another chance. I can make things right." I say, something.

"I gave you one too many chances already without you even realizing it. At least friends, Laurance. Take it or leave it... Or actually, I'll leave." As soon as she walked away, she turned back to me and said; "I'll play it out as if nothing happened. I'll approach you, talk to you, be it the way we were before. But that's just about where it'll end."

Watching her walk away yet again, but even more so painful this time. Friends? Do I actually want us to be just friends? But it's that or nothing.

*Your POV*

'I love you, I always have..please. None of those things were fake, I was only a coward...and a jerk. I'm sorry, please.' His words keep playing over and over again in my head. Be it my fault, but I could say the same to you.

I still love Laurance. But I'm inly a coward, a jerk. 'It was all in the past.' Had it been in the past, then tomorrow is the present.

But no, no more of these games. We're friends now, at least that's what we have back. I don't know about him, but I'm fine with things just being this way.

I'm just going to have to deal with the pain, the pain I caused myself.

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