Don't Leave Me

Part Two

"You give me deja vu

Like l've been waiting my whole life to find that view

Cause when I'm lookin at your eyes

I go from California to Timbuktu

Back to dancing in the living room

If I got you, baby everyday's a honeymoon."

-Honeymoon (Johnny Stimson)

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"Eleanor..." Chidi said, staring at his crying wife. He reached out to touch her shoulder, but she reeled away.

Her eyes were red and puffy, and she kept hiccupping through her endless tears. He hadn't seen her act like this in a total of four years.

He took a seat down next to her, only to be shoved off. Yeah, he should've seen that coming. Eleanor could be quite scary when she was in a mood like this.

"Chidi!" She shouted, "Why the fuck would you say things like that? Do you not love me? What a stupid question, of course you don't love me!" She grabbed her jacket, "It's just as I thought, nobody will ever be able to love me."

"Eleanor please, that's not true!"

"Really? That's not true? I just heard you say that you wished you had never married me! Chidi, I never thought I'd marry anyone. So here I am, with you, and now you don't want to be with me?" Her eyes were getting redder by the minute and she began crying again.

"Please, it's not what you thin—"

"You know what the worst part is? I still love you. But I can't be with someone who doesn't love me." She threw on her jacket and stared at him, "I'm staying at Tahani's for the night. Goodbye, Chidi."

She picked up her purse and kissed her daughter goodbye, smiling down at the baby's cute face.

The shorter girl grabbed her purse and left the building, glaring at her husband one final time before leaving the house.

"Eleanor!" He shouted before the door was slammed in his face. He slid down the door and started to cry himself. How could he be so stupid? How could he even think something like that? He loved his wife, no questions asked.

Yet his indecisiveness had yet again cost him happiness. He heard a loud whine coming from the big bedroom and picked up Phoneix, "It's okay." He soothed, "Daddy's got you." He cradled the young child closely, thoughts drifting back to his wife.

"Hi, my name's Eleanor Shellstrop, can we talk?"

He had been hooked on her ever since the beginning, he had loved her from the very start. It had just taken him too long to realize it.

And now he was left alone.

Eleanor was standing outside Tahani's mansion, completely broken. When the door opened, the first thing the blonde did was throw herself into her best friend's arms. Shocked, the young woman helped the shorter girl inside and sat her down on her bed. She had taken a ca here, out of laziness and not wanting random strangers on the highway to see her crying in her car.

("But what about the driver?") Tahani had asked, only to get a simple shrug from her best friend.

"Darling, what is wrong?" She finally asked, wrapping her arms around the crying girl and hugging her closely. No matter how hard Eleanor tried to form words, she couldn't seem to find the right ones. It took hours until she had finally calmed down for her to explain her situation to her situation to her best friend.