It Ends Tonight Meaning Novels & Stories

It felt different from the other nights since this was the last one, the end. "Stand up," he said. His voice was calm and controlled. I obeyed immediately and stood up. He approached me, walking toward me slowly and deliberately. He stopped right in front of me, close enough to touch, but he did not touch me yet. He just looked down at me. "Tonight is the last night." "I know." "After tonight, things change." I nodded. "You said that." "Tonight, you're going back to the glass room." My stomach dropped at those words. The glass room meant watching again.

For tonight, at least, the storm could wait. A fragile peace. A beginning, not an ending.

Quinn tips her pretty face up to look at me. “I love you.” * I’ve gotten so used to sleeping for just a few hours here and there that sleeping through the night seems weird. Sometimes I wake up in a panic thinking I missed a shift or didn’t hear my phone ring. It’s rare I don’t have to go in for an emergency appendectomy or cholecystectomy on my on-call nights. Pure exhaustion is what helps me sleep through the night, and even then, it still feels weird.

Not when I’m this close. I just have to get through tonight. Then I make the call.

Not gone. At peace. The End.

Forever. The End.

Not happy endings. **************************************************

A broken scream tore from my throat. “Mom!” The flesh on my hands was shredded. Even that pain was nothing compared to the pain in my heart. Memories of all the sweet moments I once shared with Suzanna flashed through my mind. Regret and hatred twisted inside me until I coughed up blood and collapsed. As my consciousness faded, I whispered, “Suzanna, from this moment on, we mean nothing to each other anymore.”

He brushed his lips over my ear and moved the hair from my neck, “and tonight it is all about you,” The End.

He just pulled me close, his arms a silent promise. Tomorrow, we would leave. Tomorrow, we’d walk into the dark. But tonight, we had this. Each other. A cause. And perhaps the beginning of the end.