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Pure Obsession (Finn) - Chapter Five
Date: 10/9/2014, Categories: Reluctance, Author: SITTING, Rating: 20, Source: LushStories
dancing all the time, even on Sundays, and in the short times we did get together, the conversation didn’t flow so easily anymore. We never talked about how we felt, but more about other things, like books and music and our foolhardy dreams of the restaurant which always managed to fill awkward pauses. Something had changed. I didn’t know whether it was in me or in her. She still made my heart race and yet, the warmth had gone, the easy laughter and smiles were forced and prolonged. I wanted to talk about it, but I struggled for an appropriate time to bring it up. There was always something going on that would stop me; and then, one night, when I finally got the courage to open my mouth, she got there first. “Finn, I don’t think this is working anymore.” We were in my bedroom, and I could hear the wind howling outside. I turned to look at her, my heart beginning to thump hard. “What?” “I just… I don’t think this is love,” she said, awkwardly. “I mean, I like you, but we don’t love each other.” I gazed at her, speechless for a couple of seconds. I’d been hoping for an opportunity to open up, not to break up. “How… how can you say that? You don’t know how I feel.” She sighed heavily, and sat down on the bed. “Yes, I do. Finn, you don’t love me, you can’t. There’s this distance between us, and don’t say it’s not there because it is. I feel like we try, you probably try more than I do, but it’s not working. I mean, you’re a billion times more suited to me than Daniel ever was ...