Brotherly Love: Chapter Two

Chapter 14: Letting go

I walk into the coffee shop. My mind telling me whether or not this was a huge mistake. But I needed Clarification, I needed closure.

Grace was sitting in the corner booth. I walk over to take a seat.

She looks up and gives me a weak smile.

"Hey". I say to her sitting down.

"I didn't think you would show".

"Honestly? Traffic , a lot of it". I say to her truthfully. "But I'm here now".

"Yeah, you are". She sighs. "I don't know what to say".

"I do, I have a lot to say, but I don't want to be harsh about it because you don't deserve that". I take her hands in mine. "At one point in my life, you meant a lot to me, you helped me not become a wreck after losing Hope".

"I wish.....if I had the chance to go back and change a lot of things, I would". She releases my hands from her grip. "You wrecked my life trying to fix yours because of your lost".

"I wrecked your life?, is that honestly how you feel towards me?". I ask her, my heart pounding.

"You wanted closure, and I'm giving it to you, you ruined my life in so many ways for all these years, I want to be free again and with that being said, I want out completely, I don't want to be friends, I don't want to ever hear from you again".

My heart dropped.

"Grace..".

"No Caleeb, let me finish, I wish my friend never forced me to go to that dinner, I wish that even though I was stuck in traffic, I shouldn't have came that night, I hate that I fell for you". She puts a twenty dollar bill on the table and gets up. "You wanted clarity right? here it is, let go of Gabriel before she ends up like me, broken, leave her while you still have the chance to".

She walks out of the coffee shop.

Did I really wreck her life? maybe I was so focused on myself that I didn't see how much I was breaking that poor woman. I should of seen better, or noticed. But there is no one to blame but myself.

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I arrive at the park and walk up to the park bench that Gabby was sitting on. She was feeding the ducks in front of her with bread. I smile as I see how happy this made her. I take a seat next to her and lean over to kiss her cheek.

"Having fun?". I ask her with a smile.

"I actually really am". She smiles as she throws another small piece of the bread on the ground. "My mom use to take my brother and I to do this all the time". Her smile fades away slowly. "I miss them a lot".

I place my arm around her, pulling her closer to me and resting my chin on her head. "Their watching you do this and smiling to themselves right now". I say trying to comfort her.

"Sometimes, I think about them and my heart falls, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye and I think those were the worse, not being able to hear them let you go". She beings to cry.

"I know, I understand what you mean". I hold her tighter than before.

"Promise you won't leave me Caleeb, I wouldn't be able to handle it at all".

"I prom-".

"Caleeb, please come back to me". A voice says.

I look next to me quickly. Who was that?

"Did you hear that?". I ask Gabby with a concerned expression on my face.

She sits up and looks at me, she was more confused than I was.