please.

I can feel your eyes staring at me as I pointedly stare at anything but you, fixating my gaze instead on a rather elephant shaped cloud. I watch it tumble and run with the breeze as your empty eyes bore a hole into the side of my head.

"Stay. I know I messed up but I'll make it better. I mean it this time, I can fix things - everything - for both of us. I love you." Your voice cracks as you rush through your words, the speech I can tell you mentally recited before speaking dissolves into ruin as you beg.

The elephant cloud is floating out of my field of view, and I wish more than anything that I could go with it, that I could run as fast as my legs would let me right across town to the ocean and everything that lays beyond, away from the park bench gluing down my legs, and most importantly away from you. My throat constricts as I try to speak, every fibre of my body desperate to wrench me away from the inevitable weakness of my guilty heart.

"Please."

I wince as you speak, the tremor in your voice as you mumble out one last plea closes my throat once and for all to prohibit any potential resistance.

"Of course." The words slip out through my gritted teeth that I've forced into an inhuman smile.

The feelings of suffocation intensify as you wrap your arms around me, and I stare over your shoulder to catch one last glimpse of the elephant cloud before it dissapears, taking with it my chance to escape.