“No you don’t,” he said as his arms wrapped around her tightly, pulling her in, caressing her hair and kissing her forehead and cheeks though carefully with that bruised one. “You don’t cause me pain. You’ve done so much for me, Katelynn I love you so much and I just want to look after you but all these people come after you I wish I could be with you all the time just to try and give you a chance to, to get away or, or something…! Please, d-don’t cry any more. Please…”
“B-But..” she held onto him tightly, the memories of all the times she made him sad or worried springing forth in her mind, as well as her mothers scolding words, “But..all I do is make you worried..or sad…and now because of me two villains..because of me one targeted you and just by being with me..it puts you in danger..! Ever since I stepped into your life all I did was cause trouble..nothing but trouble for you..an-and it hurts to think that maybe you were better without me..”
“NO.”
He said that maybe louder than he meant to.
“Katelynn no. Don’t you ever think that!” he pulls back, holding her shoulders in his hands. “Please don’t ever think I’d be better without you! D-do you know where I’d be? I’d be here. Alone. Painting. Never going out. Never doing anything. I wouldn’t have my new friends, I wouldn’t know you, I wouldn’t know what being in love is like and I would think I’m fine but, but I NEED you. I’ve needed you my entire life.”
Jack Maple 