In Five Years

by Rebecca Serle

“You always wanted someone who would just know it was you. You always wanted your soul mate.

you could have love beyond your wildest dreams. Stuff movies are made of. You’re meant for that, too.”

Rebecca was speaking directly to me with this one.

“You may love me, but I think we both know you don’t want to marry me.”

If you wanted to marry me, you would have already.”

You were dragging your heels way before that.” “We were busy,” I say. “We were working. Life. That was both of us.” “I asked the question!” David says. “You knew where I stood. I was trying to be patient. How long am I supposed to wait?”

Reading how David had to make the hard realization that Dannie just didn’t want to get married to him for whatever reason was heartbreaking. He was always there for her (i.e. the driving to the airport scene). He was so patient ):

All that time, all those years, all those plans, gone. We’re strangers now.

UGH! ):

I used to think that the present determined the future. That if I worked hard and long, I’d get the things I wanted. The job, the apartment, the life. That the future was simply a mound of clay waiting to be told by the present what form to take. But that isn’t true. It can’t be. Because I did everything right.

I cry for a relationship I’ve lost, a marriage, a future that will never be.

This hit insanely hard