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"What?" I barely whispered. "I said-""I know," I felt his eyes on me. "But we can't.""What? Why not?" He frowned. "We just can't..." I started to clean up some spilled batter. "C'mon, we can make this work." He grabbed my hand and faced me towards him. He lightly smiled and I started to cave in. "No, Justin. I can't." I let his hand go. "Why not? Give me one good reason that we shouldn't be together! If I'm trying why can't you-""Because I don't want to hurt you again, okay?! I can't go through another minute of hurting you!" Tears were threatening to run down my cheeks. The room went silent and he had a sad look in his eyes. "Cait, you did hurt me," I looked away and bit my lip so hard, I thought it was going to bleed. "But it's hurting me even more not being with you. Can't you see that?!" He raised his voice and I flinched. "Justin I just can't right now, okay?" I looked up at him and he was slowly nodding his head. "Okay well, I gotta go." He walked towards the front door. "C'mon Justin, don't act like this. Atleast stay for breakfast." I stood in front of the door, blocking him. "I cant." I squinted my eyes. "Lock the door on your way out." I walked into the kitchen and the kids were sitting down patiently, waiting to eat. "Where's daddy?" Jaslyn slid a piece of pancake into her mouth. "Yeah, where's daddy?" They waited for the answer, but what would I tell them? "Uh, daddy didn't feel to good so he's going to go to grandma Pattie's house for some soup.""But I wanted daddy to play with me," Jayden looked upset, and Jaslyn looked mad. What had I done?

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