Bleeding Love

Chapter 11: Out in the Open

Later that night; Daryl's POV :

I can't get Beth out of my mind..... did I really screw up so bad that now she won't even talk to me? There's silence all around the fire until Beth walks over and the new girl Dixie pipes up and says,

" So Beth, I hear you like to sing...."

Beth gives a half hearted shrug and sits next to Sasha, then Sasha asks,

" Do you know any by Fine Frenzy?"

Beth tilts her head in thought and says,

" Only one, and I can only remember the chorus...."

" You should sing what you know then, I used to love fine frenzy."

Poor Beth just shakes her head no and answers,

" I don't think that's such a good idea..." Sasha looks at her questioning why. I knew why, it was because the song probably related to Beth and I, she probably didn't want to make me mad. I stare right at Beth and say,

" Just sing it Beth, it can't be that bad...."

She gives a sad look, shrugs her shoulders once again, and replies,

" You asked for it...." Everyone went quiet and she began to sing,

"Goodbye my almost lover,

Goodbye my hopeless dream,

I'm trying not to think about you,

Why can't you just let me be?

So long my luckless romance,

My back is turned on you

Should've known you'd bring me heartache,

Almost lovers always do------- "

She again, for like the fifth time tonight shrugs her shoulders, and says,

" that's all I remember...."

Everyone in the circle knew why it wasn't such a good idea now, except for Bob who was completely oblivious. Beth gets up and says,

" I'm going to bed...."

I turn back around from watching her walk away, only to see the new girl Dixie looking me up and down. Sure she was gorgeous and more my age, but wasn't I trying to win Beth back? And by the lyrics of that song, it sounded like she was giving up on me, which I knew I couldn't take the pain of. It was killing me already not talking to her since this morning...

I hate this fucking feeling, I have never loved a girl other than my mother in my entire life. Most of the girls I've been with have just been one night stands, but Beth? NEVER! She's too good for that. I don't know whether it is her sweet voice I love or the enormous amount of hope she has, but I would do anything for her, ANYTHING.