Meet Me Halfway
She asked, her voice choked with tears,
“I hate it, I won’t lie. But I won’t say it takes away from my peace. It’s more like they are a burden to you and me, and they are. But to let you believe that it’s your fault, to let you blame yourself, then that’s cowardice on my part. It’s purely weak. And so I won’t accept it. I wish you wouldn’t either.”
“But then if I don’t blame me, then you’ll blame me.”
“Then, I blame myself because of Rhoda, you blame yourself because of Callum.” He smiled and shook his head, “how about we both try not to blame ourselves?”
She smiled as he got up and pulled her up with him,
“How about we focus on each other, we focus on taking it one day at a time and we focu