I wish you could take me away, where it'd be just you and me. We'd live together, away from all the problems and complications we'd face if we weren't alone. Sometimes we make choices at the spur of the moment because we think that's what's best. We wouldn't want to hurt those we care about most, so that decision we made was probably for the best.

Did you know my heart broke when you said no? Sometimes in the middle of the night, I'd wake and wonder how things would be if circumstances we different. That's just useless thinking because right now, that's how things aren't.

I thought maybe we could live in our world of secrets, and we could hide it under the blankets where only you and I would know what it contains. Wouldn't that be great?

But no.

You said no.

And I'm still regretting how it turned out.