He sighed, tilting his head back to look at the stars. "I wish you didn't try to kill me," he said tiredly. "That really wasn't cool. It freaked me out a lot..."
"It's really messed everything up," he said flatly, looking down at her. "Not only that, but you also are choosing to stay with the people that made you do it. That makes me really, really sad. It makes me feel hurt, like maybe I didn't... maybe I wasn't what I thought I was to you." He looked down at the ground. "I guess that's vain of me to say."
She paused, looking up to him. "Rowan.. You're everything to me." She hesitated. "I just.. I'm afraid of leaving them. They're my family.. I know what they're doing is wrong, but I don't know what to do. I don't know how to fix it."
He took a deep breath and his voice sounded slightly watery. "Well, you know, that's another thing too, Tez. I keep thinking about it, and there's this thought in the back of my head that says that maybe I just don't get that, you know? I don't... I mean, I haven't... I haven't had a family in a very, very long time. Maybe that part of me is just... not there, you know? Maybe that's why this is so hard for me to understand."
He shook his head, his brows furrowing. "But here's the thing, Tez. You were my family. That's what I keep coming back to. I wanted to spend my life with you..." He took a deep breath, looking down at the ground. "But I made a choice to back out of it when I realized that you were doing something bad. I pulled away, and I just can't... I can't understand why you can't do the same."
He sighed, shaking his head. "But I don't want you to feel the way I'm feeling. I don't want you to lose your family. So, we should just stay apart."
"But I'm the one telling you that. It's alright, Tez, it really is. I just don't want to be a part of it."
"I don't think it's going to happen," he said, his voice cracking slightly as they neared her hotel. "It just won't work out."
He stumbled when she let go, swaying uncertainly. "Well, that's the way it's looking, right? You can't leave her, and I can't be around for that."
