Softly As I Leave You Novels & Stories

We leave everything. ---

I gently take his hand and rest it softly against my cheek; as I lay a gentle kiss against his palm, I softly, almost nearly to a silence, whisper to him, “I love you, Lucas.” And if it thought that the thunder and rain would have drowned my words, I am so sadly mistaken for there is that goddamn gorgeous smile that is playing so freely at the corners of his mouth, and god, what a mouth I would love to take right now. But I am losing focus on what is supposed to happen, and that is I have to leave him. The saddest thing is that when I leave when I turn my back on him and disappear like I planned I would, I know that I am going to break his heart.

Ten years ago, a wildfire along Interstate 5 just outside Portland, Oregon, rewrote everyone's fate. In that disaster, my parents died in the flames after risking their lives to pull young Claire Hart from the back seat of a trapped car. After that, Claire's parents, James and Victoria Hart, took me in when I had no one, raised me, and covered every dollar of my tuition and living costs. Everyone assumed that Claire's life and mine were already bound together, that we would go to college together, grow up side by side, get engaged, and eventually marry. Then, late one night after graduation, I came across a Reddit post written by Claire ten years in the future. One line cut straight throug

Alexa replied. 🎶🎶Don't cut me down, throw me out, leave me here to waste I once was a man with dignity and grace Now I'm slippin' through the cracks of your cold embrace So please, please🎶🎶 🎶 Could you find a way to let me down slowly? A little sympathy, I hope you can show me If you wanna go then I'll be so lonely If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly

I think that we both know the way that this story ends Then only for a minute I want to change my mind 'Cause this just don't feel right to me I wanna raise your spirits I want to see you smile but Know that means I'll have to leave Know that means I'll have to leave Lately, I've been, I've been thinking I want you to be happier, I want you to be happier When the evening falls And I'm left there with my thoughts And the image of you being with someone else Well, that's eating me up inside But we run our course, we pretend that we're okay Now if we jump together at least we can swim Far away from the wreck we made Then only for a minute I want to change my mind 'Cause this just don't feel rig

I know what you're going to say, but trust me, I tried. And not just once. I timidly looked at myself several times in the mirror with a detached air, and I pronounced these three words which have the power of striking in the chest: "I leave you." I said them, I assure you. Quite loud even, in the hope that he hears them and accepts them. At 39, it might be about time. He cannot stay to contemplate this grumpy love that turns its back on him. Even an icy gust of wind doesn't dare to make me go towards it.

I held her tracksuit close to me and started crying again. **Could you find a way to let me down slowly? A little sympathy, I hope you can show me If you wanna go, then I'll be so lonely If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly Let me down, down, let me down, down, let me down Let me down, down, let me down, down, let me down If you wanna go, then I'll be so lonely If you're leavin', baby, let me down slowly** *

As you go so far My heart says stay back Because it clinches for your smile It cannot relate someone so pure It cannot stay so endure You are carrying my heart away So peaceful and keen to say That I love you And I will love you Till the end

I repeated myself softly, but loud enough for the entire hall to hear, "Take off the watch." Her expression changed at once. Panic flickered in her eyes—an intensity I had never seen before. "What do you mean? You know what this watch means to me," she said. "I know." I released her hand and took out a document I had prepared long before today. "And because I know, I want a divorce." She stared at me, stunned, then looked at the document labeled "Divorce Agreement". Her body trembled. "Jayden, say that again." "I said I want a divorce. All because of that watch."

I yelled kicking my legs in the air "Not when you're a mess" He threw me on something soft and I smiled spreading my legs wide apart "I can touch the sky" I scream as I try touching the sky, everything is going round in circle "Why do you keep appearing wherever I am?" "I'm leaving" I heard his faint voice, and I smiled "You just want to leave me like they all did, everybody leaves me that's what you all are good at," I said turning away and facing the other side, a slow tear fell from my eyes