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She shoves my hands and rises off the bed. “Will, I love you so much but I can’t relive this again. I’m sorry.”
I push onto my feet as she bolts for the hallway. “Jovie, wait.”
She doesn’t stop. I take extra-long strides to cut her off in the living room.
“Please. Jovie—”
“I just need to be alone for a while,” she says, shielding her face from me.
“For how long?”
She grabs her car keys off the wall. “I don’t know.”
I block the door. “How long?”
“I don’t know.”
I stare at the top of her downturn head. Tears fall directly from her eyes to the floor. They make soft, gentle splashes that echo in my head.
“Jovie…” I reach for her but she recoils an inch. “What can I do?”
She wipes her eyes but it doesn’t help. “Open the door.”
I lay a hand on the doorknob to buy a few more precious seconds. “Jovie, I don’t want you to be alone. Please, stay here. We don’t have to talk. You don’t have to say anything. Just, please, stay with me.”
“I can’t even look at you, Will,” she says, sobbing. “How can you even look at me?”
“Because I love you.” I jut forward, holding her face before she has a chance to resist it. “Look at me.” Her neck loosens and she allows me to turn her upward as I wipe a thumb along her tear-stained cheeks. “Jovie, I love you.”
She takes a deep, quivering breath. “Then, let me go.”
I stare her down as my own tears start to burn my eyes. “Will you come back?” I ask.
Jovie takes the doorknob. She twists it slowly and pulls the door open, gently nudging me out of the way.
“Jovie,” I whisper, letting my hands fall to my sides. “I love you.”
She pauses with one foot out the door. “I love you, too,” she says.
I look down, unable to watch as she leaves. The door latches closed. I hear the loud screeching of her car door as she climbs inside. The engine turns over. She drives away.
I’ll be here when she comes back.
Ignorance may have been bliss but truth is binding.
She’s still my Jovie.
Now more than ever.
