If you don�t love me � lie to me
�Cause baby you�re the one thing I believe
Let it all fall down around us, if that�s what�s meant to be
Right now if you don�t love me baby � lie to me, lie to me
Baby, I can take it
C�mon lie to me
Last night was single-handedly the worst night of my life. I couldn�t sleep, I couldn�t stop thinking about what I had done, and what it caused me. I know it was her who had the affair, but it was never my place to keep something like this from her. She did what she did because of love. I did what I did out of fear.
A photograph sitting beside the phone catches my attention. Me and her, with the twins between us, on their first birthday. We are all laughing, happy. What I would do to get things back the way they were.
The phone rings, but I barely react. I stare at it for a moment. Could it be her? I hurriedly reach for it. �Steph?�
�Hunter, it�s Shane.�
My heart sinks. His voice sounded�defeated. �She�she told you? Everything?�
�She won�t tell me anything,� he says on the other end. �I tried to talk her out of it, but she�s made up her mind.�
I can hear the questions in his voice. She really didn�t tell him anything. �Out of what?� I ask fearfully.
�She wants a divorce, Hunter.�
The word hits me hard in the stomach, and leaves me completely speechless and frozen
A few seconds � or is that minutes? � later, I gradually hear Shane frantically asking if I was alright. I shake my head to clear it, though it�s no help. I answer him with a faint, �I�m here.�
�I�m so sorry, Hunter,� he apologises, though I have no idea why. �I really thought you guys were going to make it.�
My mind is numb. I can�t think, I can�t feel, I can�t�I can�t live without her.
Five years ago, my dreams came true. Dreams that I didn�t even know existed until that very moment it happened. I fell in love. And she loved me back.
That was five years ago, before she knew the simple truth � we were never meant to be. She was never meant to be mine.
She never will be.