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“Tu crees que sabes lo que es mejor para mi, pero no lo sabes Rafael!”
Rafael stills, staring into your tearfilled eyes.
“De que tu hablas?” Raf questions you softly.
He stepped away from you to give you some space but he so badly just wants to hold you close and apologize.
Today he showed up at your apartment with the intent to break up with you but he should have known how you’d react, especially since this is out of nowhere.
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The two of you have been semi-public for a year now and everything has been great. But that was before shit started to hit the fan in the D.A’s office… He figured a clean and sudden break could save you the pain of having to be public with him but the second the words started to leave his mouth, he knew he fucked up.
Now, he’s in your doorway watching you cry and only now has it occurred to him that the two of you are so deeply in love with each other, that breaking up would be the dumbest decision he could ever make.
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“De qué hablas?” You roll your eyes and huff. “Rafael. Do you really think that I care about your work drama. I love YOU!”
Yelling at Raf was a last resort but you need your words to get through his thick skull - that you aren’t the kind of person who just keels over at the first sign of trouble. Something, you thought he already knew about you.
“I know.” Raf finally says.
“What?”
“I said I know that you love me. I-I didn’t really think this through.” He confesses.
You’re so angry with him for even resorting to this but you also can’t help but reach out and bring him inside. In the year you two have been together, Raf has opened up and become a much softer man in your eyes. He cares so much more for the world and just when you thought he was the brightest…. Maybe he really is just a man who overthinks sometimes.
“Rafael, don’t ever come close to breaking my heart like that again.” You say sternly into his neck and all you feel is his nod.
“I’m sorry mi amor. I just didn’t think-”
You cut him off to look back into his now red and weary eyes, “Exactly baby. You didn’t think. You’re so smart, mi amor but even when you go through the trenches, I need you to know that I want to be there with you. We deserve this. You deserve love.”
Raf closes his eyes at your last statement allowing his tears to fall.
He did deserve this love.
This is a love his abuela always wished for him to have and to think that in an instant it could’ve been gone all because of fear.
He couldn’t let fear hold him back from the greatest gift that is you.
No more.