"You're going to let them do this to us? You're going to give up...Eddie, you promised me."
"Skyler, I have to...okay, its what we have to do....I need to focus and you're too big of a distraction."
"You promised me, you ass..."
"This isn't even fucking about me." He raised his voice at me, he had never done that before.
"...it's because of them, Eddie. I'm not stupid. It's okay..." I tried to reach out to him, run my fingers across his jawline.
"I have a career and I have the boys, I cannot handle this right now. I have titles to win and history to make." His voice was harsh, even in the lowered tone.
"I love you so, so, much Eddie...you're going to rule the world and I'm going to be right here when you do it.
"Stop." He pulled my hand away and took three steps away from me.
"I love you, please say it back." I pleaded as the tears streamed down my face, I just needed to hear him say it. If he would say it, everything could be okay, that could keep me going. I couldn't understand why he was being so hard...
"I can't say something I don't mean, Sky. Be safe." He forced a small smile and walked out the door. I hit my knees on the floor, begged and pleaded for something to bring him back to me, that there was no way he would choose them over me and them. But, I guess he had...and there was nothing I could do about it.
Don't ask me how much time passed, I can't tell you...but his time did come. He hit his knees in the middle of that ring when he finally did it. I was so proud of him, despite everything he put me through. I tried to be gone by the time he got backstage. "Skyler.." when he said my name was one of the few times you could tell he was from Boston.
"Congrats, Ed. You deserve it." I put my hand on his arm and turned to walk away before I started crying.
"Skyler, wait." He turned me back around and pressed his lips roughly against mine. At first, I kissed him back. I melted into how his lips felt against mine and the hands that felt like home back around my waist before I pushed him off.
"Who the fuck do you think you are..." I slapped him hard across the face.
"SKYLER." Davey came and pulled me away, "walk away, go home. Okay? I'll handle this." and I left, I got in my car and drove. I just kept driving until I ended up at a quiet little park with a quiet little stream that flowed through it. I wept, I wept for Eddie and for my heart, for myself and everything I had lost. I never felt so much sorrow in my whole entire life.
"What do I have to do.." a voice behind me said, I would know that voice until the day I die. I wiped my tears but didn't turn around.
"Go home, Eddie."
"I am home, you're right here."
"I wasn't enough before, why the fuck would I be enough now."
"Stop...Sky, you know that wasn't it." He sighed, took a couple of steps toward me and waited. Waited for my response, for my reaction. For me to show him it was okay. I remained sitting and I didn't look at him. I kept my eyes focused on the cool, pale stream. "Sky. I love you." I refused to answer, refused to say anything to him at this point. "I was scared, I had the boys whispering in my ears that I couldn't do this with you. That girls were distractions and the second we went any further, I would lose it all. But that's not it, Sky. Not at all. You're not just some girl, you've never just been some girl. You will never be, just some girl. I love you more than I love anything or anyone else in this world. You are my world. I would give up wrestling forever right now if it meant you would look at me again." I turned ever so slightly and looked up at him. He looked so good, so simple, so perfect. He wore a pair of grey shorts with a red hoodie. He even still had his pads on.
"Don't say things you don't mean, Eddie." I whispered. He walked over and sat next to me.
"Tell me you didn't feel it when I kissed you tonight. If you can, I'll walk away and never look back..." He looked at me expectantly but I said in silence. "Exactly...Skyler, I'm so sorry for thinking I could do this without you, because I can't. You're the glue that keeps me sane. I love you so much and I want to spend every day of my life showing you I love you. Just...please say you'll take me back. I don't like top of the mountain without you by my side." He cupped my face in his hands and kissed me slowly.
"I love you..." I muttered, my lips still touching his with every syllable. So this was it, this was a second shot at forever.
