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Chapter 16
They danced to their song as Irish remembered when he said that
they
would make love to it, until it was theirs. Now as they danced, all
it did was punch at her heart. As the song
ended, Justin pulled away
to look at her. He took the clip out of her hair and let her long
mane fall past her shoulders.
"Irish, come with me." "Justin, it's
okay. I will be okay. You need to go back to your life, the way it
was." She shrugged
and turned away to wipe the uncontrollable tears
that wouldn't stop. "That's just it. I can't. It's not the same
anymore.
I may have had lost my memory for awhile and yes its back.
But my life has changed. I met you and you helped me and taught
me
about my life when I didn't remember." Justin wrapped his arms
around her from behind and leaned his head on top
of hers. "You
could have lied about who I really was. You could have use the
situation for personal gain. But you didn't.
And we both fell in
love in the short time we had." Justin's heart ached at her
shoulders shaking. Irish started to
cry harder. "Let it out, baby. I
know this is tough for you. But I want you with me. I want you to
come home with me.
I am so deeply in love with you. I loved you
before I got my memory back and I love you now I can remember it
all."
Irish
sighed as she took a deep breath and faced him. "I love you,
too. But I can't go back with you. That is your life. This
is
mine." She said as she waved her hand around the room. "I am so glad
that fate and destiny brought me to find you
and save you. I am also
blessed that I was given a chance to fall in love with you and to
hear the words that thousands
of women would love to hear from you.
But this was a big, wonderful dream. And like all dreams, it has to
end sometime."
Justin
didn't try to hide the pain on his face. He wanted her to see
his heartbreak. It seemed like it was the only way left to
prove
that he honestly loved her. Irish stared at him and matched the pain
on her face. Justin licked his lips and took
her hands. "I won't
forget you. And I won't let you forget us." Justin closed in and
kissed her deeply. He took her
to her bedroom and laid her down on
the bed as they still kissed. The kiss deepened as they touched
each other all over.
No clothing came off. No sex was needed. They
just wanted that last bit of contact, before good-bye. They
stretched
the minutes into an hour. After which, they just snuggled
and held each other.
Justin mumbled as he nodded off. Irish
let him sleep for a while as
she got up and paced the house.
The sun was high up in the sky, surrounded by clouds
as the
temperature was very cool. Justin slowly woke up to feel a warm
quilt around him and Irish no where around. Justin
got up and
slipped on his snow boots and jacket as he went to find her. After
searching the house he heard noise outside.
He opened the door the
find Irish busy cleaning show and ice off Justin's jeep. She turned
at the door opening and saw
Justin. "I am almost finished. I wanted
to make sure you don't have anymore accidents and I even checked out
some tire
chains I had in my storage." Justin grabbed her hands to
stop her from rambling. "Irish, sweetie, you didn't have to do
this.
But thank you." "It's okay. I love you, so I wanted to-." Justin put
a finger to her lips and nodded, knowing
what she was going to
say. "Well, I guess it's time for you to go." She exhaled and handed
him his keys. "Are you sure
you won't change your mind? " Justin
pleaded with her some. "I'm sure. But I will always be with you. In
here." She
pointed to his heart.
He swallowed hard and grabbed the finger she had pointed at his
chest and brought it to his
lips. She closed her eyes as she felt
his warm, sweet lips touch her cold finger. She opened her eyes as
they both gave
each other one last hug. "I'll miss you, baby." He
softly talked into her hair. "I'll miss you too." Justin reluctantly
let
go and climbed into the jeep. "Let's not say good-bye, Irish.
It's too final. Let's just say, `See you later', okay?" She
nodded
as he bitter sweetly smiled as he started to drive off. "See you
later, Irish." Irish weakly waved as she quietly
sobbed. "Good-bye
Justin." She waited until he was safely back on the main road,
before going back to the house. Back
to her old life. As Justin
will be back to his.
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