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Don't Run
"Bus 3A to Atlanta, now boarding. Bus 3A, now
boarding." Said the loudspeaker. Drew stood up and
picked up her bag. She took a deep breath. This was
it, no turning back. When she stepped on that bus, she
wouldn't look back, she'd never come back here.
Never come back to her family, never come back to
her friends, never come back to him. She would never
look back, so she didn't. She held her head high and
walked confidently to the bus. Her Dr. Marten's clicking
as she walked on the concrete. She got in line behind
a little old lady with powder white hair and a blue
pantsuit. The woman turned around and smiled. "Did
you drop that sweetie?" she asked. Drew looked down
and saw that she had indeed dropped something, a
picture of him. It must have fallen out of her bag when
she had walked to the bus. She leaned down and
picked it up. "Thank you." She told the woman, not
looking up from the picture in her hands. She studied
it. His green eyes that sparkled whenever he smiled at
her, yet had teared up when she had found out. His
messy black hair, that he never brushed, had been
brushed when he had apologized. That Captain
America t-shirt, his favorite. His sly smile he had for
everyone else and the grin he had for her. It was if
everything about him whispered quietly to a part of her
deep down. And she knew, somewhere deep down,
she was still very much in love with him. More in love
with him than she'd ever been. She smiled at the
picture for the first time in a week. For the first time
since the fight. A voice startled her out of her daze, it
was the old lady in front of her. "Are you running to
love? Or from love?" she asked. Drew blushed, "From
it." The woman smiled kindly, "Take it from someone
who knows, don't ever run from love, it will always find
you." And with that, the lady boarded the bus, leaving
Drew standing there. "Last call lady" Said the driver,
"you goin or not?" Drew's mind raced, "I...uh....I" the
driver's foot tapped, "Got a schedule to keep ma'm."
She wiped a tear from her eye and started to step up,
but a voice stopped her. "Drew!" she knew that voice.
Turning she saw him. He stood 10 feet away, calling
her name, a desperate look on his face. Her world
stopped. She threw her bag on the concrete and ran
as fast as her feet could take her. To him. He grinned
at the sight. She ran right into his arms. He held her
tight and stroked her hair. "Drew...I'm so sorry. I love
you." Drew looked up, "Shut up and kiss me." And that
is exactly what he did.
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