Fall For You – Secondhand Serenade.
Looking back at it all now, I wish I’d pushed harder that he wouldn’t go to his school formal. I was either far too trusting, or he was too good at convincing me we’d get through it. Either way, the school formal was the last night we were to speak again.
After my last trip to visit Tyler, we initially put the work in to help our relationship. It was still fractured, but we’d rekindled our spark and found our flame again. There was still something there and I tried my damndest to hold on to it.
In retrospect, perhaps it was just him using my intelligence to assist him in finishing his studies before finally letting me go. Or, he wanted to find a thinner, prettier, richer replacement before cutting me out like a tumour. It was always hard to make peace with how it all went down as I’m someone who needs answers. I’ve always hated open-ended novels and films where it’s up to viewer interpretation to understand the meaning.
I never got an answer, so I wrote my own. It’s part-fiction, it’s part truth, but it was my way of finding closure for myself and laying my ghosts to rest.
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