Brothers
You decide it's best to work on your career and to stay home where you can watch over your brothers.
In a month you graduate from high school and a week later you are promoted to a training position. Along with the promotion comes a raise, an increase of almost two dollars an hour.
To celebrate you take Gwen to an expensive restaurant that she's been wanting to go to for a few months. You dress up in a shirt and tie and pick her up at about 8pm.
She looks amazing and you feel like a king as you lead her into the restaurant. The place is extravegant and despite the collared shirt and tie you feel underdressed compared to the other patrons.
The waiter leads you to a table and you sit across from the most beautiful woman in the world, your heart a-flutter as you stare into her eyes.
Despite the high you are on you can't help but notice that she has a sad smile on her lips.
"What's wrong?" You ask after the two of you order your drinks.
"I'm moving away," she tells you.
Your heart, once flying among the clouds, drops to the earth like a stone.
"What do you mean?" You ask.
"My dad got a job offer," she says, swallowing hard. "We're moving in two weeks."
Never before has anyone made you so happy and now she is leaving you. The love of your life.
Your mind scrambles, trying to ignore the strings that tug at and threaten to tear apart your heart. How can you stop her? What can you do? Is there a way? Should you just make the most of the night?
What was it that the ancient English scribe had said? Better to love once and lose all than to never have loved at all? Something like that, wasn't it? But that was bullshit. Why should you have to lose at all?
Maybe... Maybe she could stay with you! But you know better than to assume that your parents would allow something like that to happen.
If only you could afford to live on your own... Didn't you just get a raise and a promotion?
Maybe you can live on your own with Gwen, the two of you together...
But can you really just leave your family like that? Even staying close to home, it's not the same as being at home where you can keep constant watch on them...
She looks like she's about to cry.
In a month you graduate from high school and a week later you are promoted to a training position. Along with the promotion comes a raise, an increase of almost two dollars an hour.
To celebrate you take Gwen to an expensive restaurant that she's been wanting to go to for a few months. You dress up in a shirt and tie and pick her up at about 8pm.
She looks amazing and you feel like a king as you lead her into the restaurant. The place is extravegant and despite the collared shirt and tie you feel underdressed compared to the other patrons.
The waiter leads you to a table and you sit across from the most beautiful woman in the world, your heart a-flutter as you stare into her eyes.
Despite the high you are on you can't help but notice that she has a sad smile on her lips.
"What's wrong?" You ask after the two of you order your drinks.
"I'm moving away," she tells you.
Your heart, once flying among the clouds, drops to the earth like a stone.
"What do you mean?" You ask.
"My dad got a job offer," she says, swallowing hard. "We're moving in two weeks."
Never before has anyone made you so happy and now she is leaving you. The love of your life.
Your mind scrambles, trying to ignore the strings that tug at and threaten to tear apart your heart. How can you stop her? What can you do? Is there a way? Should you just make the most of the night?
What was it that the ancient English scribe had said? Better to love once and lose all than to never have loved at all? Something like that, wasn't it? But that was bullshit. Why should you have to lose at all?
Maybe... Maybe she could stay with you! But you know better than to assume that your parents would allow something like that to happen.
If only you could afford to live on your own... Didn't you just get a raise and a promotion?
Maybe you can live on your own with Gwen, the two of you together...
But can you really just leave your family like that? Even staying close to home, it's not the same as being at home where you can keep constant watch on them...
She looks like she's about to cry.