Chapter 24-2

The following morning, I danced the line in a desperate attempt to have her back to me sooner. I tried to coax her to the other side with me, tried to motivate in a way I hadn't tried yet. It was fucking pathetic, begging her to come back to me by using sex as a bargaining chip. But when she was okay again, soon, we would. Soon, I would give her whatever was left of me, and offer all she saved for me the reverence it deserves. There are always moments I fear I don't deserve Marley at all, but I do know that no one on this planet, or anywhere, could ever love her half as much as I do. That is my comfort, but lately, it has become the source of my pain. Because her pain is my pain, and she's drowning in herself. I keep trying to yank her out of the water, to save her, and she keeps slipping from my fingers, sinking deeper and deeper every time I go under for her again. It's a fight only I'm fighting, and that kills me because I fell in love with a girl who refused to sink. When Marley's