[quotable_muse] Prompt 124
"COULD YOU WALK OUT ON EVERYTHING
AND START ALL OVER AGAIN?"
~ 8 1/2
Could I? I’ve already tried it several times before, and one time I’d been able to live a new life for four years. Would I do it again? Yes, but I can’t right now. I’ve got too many responsibilities now, too many things I’ve screwed up, and I can’t just drop the life I’m living now and start anew. There are too many people who count on me and if I drop everything now for my own selfish desires, then I might as well have condemned them all to death.
I knew that leaving the family business was a big risk; Dad was furious, and Dean was upset, but they’d be better off without me anyway. I never wanted to be out there doing field work and I constantly complained that what they were doing to me was unfair; not to mention I felt like I was always in the way. I’d always be the one who ended up hurt. So it was best that I leave to start my own life.
But like I said, too many things have happened these past few years for me to start my life over again and assume everything is going to be okay. My brother needs me; Dad’s death hit him hard. People need to be saved; I can’t abandon them from the monsters lurking in the shadows. I can’t run away and ignore what’s been inside me since I was six months. My blood might be tainted, but my destiny isn’t. I can change my future.
Word Count: 269
AND START ALL OVER AGAIN?"
~ 8 1/2
Could I? I’ve already tried it several times before, and one time I’d been able to live a new life for four years. Would I do it again? Yes, but I can’t right now. I’ve got too many responsibilities now, too many things I’ve screwed up, and I can’t just drop the life I’m living now and start anew. There are too many people who count on me and if I drop everything now for my own selfish desires, then I might as well have condemned them all to death.
I knew that leaving the family business was a big risk; Dad was furious, and Dean was upset, but they’d be better off without me anyway. I never wanted to be out there doing field work and I constantly complained that what they were doing to me was unfair; not to mention I felt like I was always in the way. I’d always be the one who ended up hurt. So it was best that I leave to start my own life.
But like I said, too many things have happened these past few years for me to start my life over again and assume everything is going to be okay. My brother needs me; Dad’s death hit him hard. People need to be saved; I can’t abandon them from the monsters lurking in the shadows. I can’t run away and ignore what’s been inside me since I was six months. My blood might be tainted, but my destiny isn’t. I can change my future.
Word Count: 269