Driven Away
By l mo
She was broken. Inside and out. Her heart, her memories, everything she
thought to be truth, shattered before her as he said those words to her.
"I don't love you, Serena. I just don't anymore."
She had known it was coming, their relationship had been going downhill
ever since her grandmother died, but to actually have it be reality, right
in her face, was too much. She tried to hold back her tears as she watched
him walk down the muddy soccer fields. The snow had left most of the grass
dead or drowned in mud. The chilly November winds made her hair whip around
in torrents and stick to her face as she let the river of sadness fall
down her face.
Be strong, Serena, he's not worth it, she told herself, though she
knew it wasn't true. He was worth it, every ounce of it, and now,
he was gone.
She wept as she drove aimlessly around, her eyes puffy red and unfocused.
Her shattered spirit led her as she left logic behind.
"Two years," she said to herself. "Two years I stayed with him. Through
everything! Couldn't he see that I loved him, probably even more than I
loved myself. What happened? Did he find someone else? Was it me? Did I
tell him too much?" Serena had many secrets, some, no one knew except her,
but some of them she spilled out to him. Like when she used to sit in her
garage with the car motor running trying to kill herself, or how her uncle
had molested her. She let him into the deepest caverns of her heart. She
let him in, and he destroyed her.
Frustrated, she slammed her fist down on the steering wheel, trying to
figure it out. She turned on the car and started driving. She didn't know
where to, exactly, but her subconscious led her to his house. She stopped
and stared, wondering what he was doing. If he was regretting what he did,
or if he was already with a new piece of meat. She had finally talked herself
into thinking that's all she was to him—a piece of meat. The thought
made her so angry she floored the car, and drove to the edge of the Mesa.
Desperate, she tried to steady herself and breathed deeply. She closed
her crying eyes, stepped on the gas peddle and drove into the oblivion.