P.S, you're still everything (2)

Fame and recognition brought Arabella here, but was losing her love worth it? public scrutiny and constant tabloid stories chase her just like she had with the spotlight. At what cost will it take for Arabella to stay above water when her family is away on a tour of their own, living their lives on the road, when the person she loves most left her alone?

.... Or when Malachi Barton deals with both the highs from tour and the flashing lifestyle he grew up in, except not alongside his person anymore. Arabella Prince was everything and more that he could ever want in a person, but sometimes paths align for a short while before they drift away.

But if love was there once, surely it can come back right, or did it ever leave?
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"IT'S YOU, ARABELLA!"

"What do you mean?" I hoarsely whisper out to him, the pure anguish shining in his eyes meeting in the middle with my own angst, dancing together like two long lost lovers finally re-visiting what once was.

"You're in my head. All I can think about is you, all of my time, all of my energy. It's spent trying to actively not think about how we left things, about how you just let us go without barely a fight."

There's a certain broken-hearted crack in his voice. we're so close together but also so far from one another. tears pool from our eyes, yet the unreleased anger and silent hesitation pull us further and further apart.

"For once in my life i just want to live and breathe without you haunting everything I do."

"You think I wanted this to happen, Malachi?! tell me how do I pull every piece of you away from myself without feeling like I'm tearing myself in two!"

"THEN WHY LEAVE? WHY LEAVE ME, WHY LET ME WONDER AND SECOND GUESS, YOU PROMISED FOREVER AND LAST I CHECKED THAT DIDN'T HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE"

"BECAUSE I LOVED YOU, YOU IDIOT, BECAUSE I STILL DO"