Chapter 84: Broken Strings

Enter Max: Whooooo. :)

Theme Song for the Chapter: James Morrison and Nelly Furtado - Broken Strings

Ty's POV

Let me hold you for the last time

It's the last chance to feel again

But you broke me

Now I can't feel anything

When I love you it's so untrue

I can't even convince myself

When I'm speaking it's the voice of someone else

"I can't go through that again." His voice is soft, but on edge at the same time. I look up at him just in time for him to make eye contact with me. "Not ever." His words are so final, so thought through that they cut through me as if my feelings are paper thin, and I guess at this point they are.

I keep telling myself that I can change his mind. That maybe, just maybe.. if I can get him to talk to me, and really talk to me, that he will feel for me once again all the things that he did. But looking at him now, I know that's not going to happen. He's dead set on his decision. I go off on a rant, trying that as a last tactic, but it doesn't help at all. "Come on, this is so wrong" I try as a final plead, but when all emotion is still vacant from his face, I know I've lost him.

It tears me up

I try to hold on but it hurts too much

I try to forgive but it's not enough to make it all okay

I watch him as he shifts his weight from one foot the the other, never once glancing up at me again. His jaw is tight, almost in the same way it is when he's on the ice and he's getting pissed. I open my mouth to say something, anything, but my voice fails me as my mind decides I have nothing further to say. I can't make him want me. I can't make him want to try and make this work. And I can't make him want to love me again. I clutch my hands into fists by my side right before I hear the door open.

I look over, and when I see it's Max he looks from me to Geno, and then back to me but doesn't dare say anything. He can obviously tell that we aren't seeing eye to eye, so he doesn't say anything as he stands in the doorway continuing to look at us both.

"You should go," Geno says in a quiet voice, breaking the silence between the three of us. He makes his way over toward me to help me to the door, and anger suddenly fills me.

"I know my way out," I retort, moving my arm just out of his grasp before starting the painful walk toward the door. Not only is my knee hurting with every step, but it feels like every inch I take closer to that door and farther away from Geno and the comfort he use to provide for me, that my heart is breaking that much more.

Once I shut the door, Max scoops me up in his arm and takes me toward his car. I wrap my arms around his neck and allow my head to rest on his shoulder as the first silent tears begin to from my eyes. Instead of putting me into the car right away, he leans against it instead, holding me and allowing me to have my mini breakdown. I'm sure we look like quite the pair, and quite awkward as well. Since I stand a good couple of inches taller than him when on flat feet, I'm I look weird cradled in his arms now. I pick my head up and place one hand on the other side of his face, bringing his cheek closer to my direction before placing a single kiss on his cheek before my sobbing becomes more intense. He clutches me closer, and all I can do is snuggle closer as I realize for the first time that it's still raining.

Max's POV

While holding Ty, I feel a warmth emanating from inside of me that I've never felt before. I feel giddy like a child, and that scares me. She kisses my cheek gently, and it's then that I know I have to get her out of my arms. I place her in the passenger seat of my car before closing the door and taking a deep breath. For some reason, I feel almost like the vampire from twilight; almost as if I get into that car with her, that her smell will consume me and I might not be able to keep my composure. Taking another deep breath, I trot around to the other side of the car and slide in, throwing it into reverse and backing out of the drive way.

After I finally get her back into her room at the hospital, after several 'go to hell' looks from the nurses, I sit in the chair across from her bed and I watch her. She's quiet, reserved. Yes, that's how Ty normally is, but that glimmer, the one that is always present in her eyes is gone. No trace of it what-so-ever.

We're a lot alike, her and I. She was doing fine on her own before Geno, just as I was before I met Rylie. Neither of us had any intentions of getting into anything serious anytime soon. And then they both broke into our worlds, and we don't quite know how to function without them.

She scoots over on the bed a little bit, and taps the empty space next to her. I wonder if she knows what she's doing to my mind right now or not, but then decide against that fact. I can tell just by the way she's acting that Geno is the only man on her mind right now, and that right now, she just needs to be held. I slip into the bed next to her, allowing her to lay on my chest as I hear her breathing getting deeper again, indicating that she's crying again.

"I don't know what to do," she sobs lightly while clutching onto me tighter, making me feel a little more uncomfortable. Sure, I love being able to sit here for her, helping her get through this. But it's never been this tough on me before.

"Maybe he will change his mind," I offer, but silently hope that he doesn't. After the thought has crossed my mind, I wonder where it came from. "Sure, he's being a dick right now," I add, to which she shakes her head and I can't help but chuckle. "But he does love you. I know it." I sit there before adding, "Everybody knows it," because it's true. When in the locker room, every single guy as the moment of feeling 'I want that', when looking at couples that are together. Happy couples. When looking at Ty and Geno, it was hard to not feel that.

"I guess that's not enough anymore," she sighs.

"Who knows when it will be, but he'll come around. Eventually."

She pulls away from my chest and looks me in the eyes. A chill goes down my spine as I realize for the first time just how close we are to each other. "I just don't know if I'll still be waiting for him," she answers, before silence comes between us and we both just look at each other.

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Alright ladies, I want input. This last update is not where I planned on taking things, but my fingers hit the keyboard and it just kinda happened. Ha. So.... vote time.

Do you want something to happen between Max and Ty? Do they sleep together and nothing more, do they fall for each other, do they hide it from Geno, does he know... I want to know what you all think on all of these ideas. Heck, even throw in some of your own ideas. This last update has my mind turning. Hopefully that means more updates soon..? At least I hope so..