Second Chance

"It's not over yet."

This is the last sentence that the universe ever speaks to me.
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The light turns green.

"If you don't want a future, Vance," Ellen says in a barely audible voice, just as I press the gas, "Then maybe you should take the ring back."

I take in my hands, resting on the steering wheel.

I immediately slam back on the breaks before I'm even a foot past the white line of the intersection.

I watch as a truck barrels across, running through the red light above.

My heart pounds.

Relief washes through me.

Right there, at the intersection, with the light green, and cars honking behind me, I throw the car into park, and go around to the passenger side door.

I open it, and pull her up and out into the rain with me.

I kiss her, and kiss her, and kiss her.

Until we both fade.