When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom, let it be....John Paul stalked through the village, trying hard to keep it together, in order to keep up appearances, if nothing else.
“Well, aren’t you just a picture of happiness?”
John Paul frowned as Kris approached. “If you’re gonna make some snide little remark then just walk back the way you came.”
“OK, John Paul, don’t batter me with your handbag!” Kris laughed, slinging his arm around John Paul’s shoulder. “I’m guessing by the look on your face that all is not well concerning a certain priest?”
“No, it’s not.”
“Why, what have you done this time John Paul? You haven’t broken up with him again, have you? Cos John Paul, there’s playing hard to get, and then there’s just plain infuriating.” Kris stopped walking and took his arm off his shoulder. “John Paul, it’s not got anything to do with Craig coming back, has it?”
John Paul stared at his feet.
“Oh, John Paul, tell me you haven’t……” Kris left the end of his sentence open, but John Paul knew exactly what he was getting at. He nodded, his eyes becoming glassy from tears.
“Yeah. Oh Kris I’ve ruined everything! He texted me to come round yesterday, so he could give me back the stuff I left there!”
Kris wrapped his arm back around John Paul’s shoulder. “Oh, John Paul, what were you thinking?” He asked softly.
“I wasn’t, obviously!”
Kris paused, thoughtfully. “Maybe you should go round and see him.”
“Again? I don’t think he’d bother even opening the door this time. What would I say, anyway? There’s isn’t a magic word that will fix everything.”
“Look, John Paul, in my opinion, what you have is too special to let go to ruin over Craig Dean, of all people. You’ve gone through so much to be together, you can’t just give up on it now, it would be such a waste. You have to fight for him, John Paul.”
John Paul nodded, and Kris gave him a push in the direction of Kieron’s flat. “You might as well get it over with now!”
John Paul reluctantly made his way over to Kieron’s flat.
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Kieron opened the door and frowned when he saw John Paul in front of him.
“Oh, it’s you. Look, John Paul, I kind of don‘t want to see you right now.”
“I have to speak to you.” John Paul said, pushing past Kieron to stand in the middle of the living room.
“What do you want John Paul?” Kieron asked, rubbing a hand across his forehead.
“Why are you willing to give up on us so easily?”
“Well, I thought you were the one who gave up on us when you jumped into bed with Craig Dean.”
“It didn’t mean anything! Why would it?! I’ve got you Kieron, and you’re so much more important to me than Craig!”
“You have a really funny way of showing it.”
John Paul took a step towards Kieron. “Please. Please don’t think that I don’t love you. I do, so much! I don’t know what I’d do without you!”
“Well, you’ve got Craig now…..”
John Paul rubbed his hands over his face in frustration. “I don’t want Craig!”
“Well, maybe I don’t want you!”
John Paul froze. “You don’t mean that.”
Kieron looked as shocked as shocked at what he had said as John Paul had. “I just…I don’t know what to think anymore John Paul.”
“Tell me you don’t love me.”
Kieron looked agonized. “John Paul, you know that I still love you, that’s what makes this so damn difficult!”
“Well, it doesn’t have to be! We love each other, that should be all that matters!”
“John Paul, please don’t do this. I finished things because I thought it would be best for both of us.”
“But it’s not!”
“I know!” He paused, trying to stay firm and not give in to John Paul, no matter how much he wanted to. “But that’s the way it’s got to stay.”
“We can work through this.”
“I don’t think so.”
John Paul opened the front door, before turning back to look at Kieron. “Someday, I hope you look back and you remember this moment. How you let someone you love slip through your fingers because you couldn’t be bothered to put the work in!”
“John Paul…”
But John Paul had already slammed the door behind him.
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