Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 96

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Valentine Blues - Season 1 - Episode 96

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-FINALE
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”You sure you don’t want to spend the weekend with us?” Lucy asks over the phone
”No, three is a crowd, have you not realized that even now?” Anna asks, she picks her bag and locks her door. She enters her car and puts it on reverse. Darren’s car was still parked in her garage.
It’s been over a year they spoke, partly because she had stopped picking his calls, listening to him tell her he loves her, knowing that he may never come back to her..
It hurt too much. Realizing that she had indeed falling madly inlove with him, and she may not be able to tell him, knowing that he had a sense of duty, being the kind of man he was to do the right thing, and that meant being with a woman who almost lost her life when she was told he was leaving her to his love of his life.

Knowing that she couldn’t blame him nor her, knowing that Darren was too good a man, and knowing that she could not be selfish and demand him come to her just because she realized that she loved him too.
This was life, and everything didn’t have to work out the way we wanted. If it did, maybe she would have given him a chance to love him since day one he asked her out, maybe she should have not allowed Daniel to cloud her thoughts, maybe..maybe she should have made an effort to look for him when he left instead of giving up..just maybe.

Now one year later, a ache in her chest, her heart and her bed empty and the man she loved was cities away mending a woman that may end up being his wife.

Yes, love sU-Cks, it was better not felt.
Irony of it all, every St. Valentine’s day, everyone just wants to love and she rather be in a gloomy place away from it. Maybe love wasn’t meant for her, maybe she was never meant to be happy or have her happy ending.

She had accepted her faith, accepted that she lost Darren and that at 30th, she was going to be single, free and lonely.

Sighing she takes a turn.

”Are you okay Anna?”
”Lucy, i am fine”
”Come please”

”No darlyn, you and Adam needs some alone time and Tonia and Tom wouldn’t stop smothering me,. Its a year i am fine, i am awesome and all is well okay? I can take care of myself and just because today is St. valentine doesn’t mean i should lock myself up in my room. And right now, i just want to be in a place that is quiet and peaceful and absent of love jamborees. So, It’s fine. I love you, take care of that baby bump okay, kisses. Bye” She cuts the call and drives into town.
She pulls to a stop and alights , entering a building named Mac &Tee.

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He is staring out of the window, watching the sun kiss the earth. He felt her hands wrap him, he smiles turning. She learns in and kisses him lightly on his lips.

”Thank you Darren”
”For what?” He inquired
”For taking care of me, for loving me, for being you even if your heart is somewhere else” She touches his face
He smiles ”I will always do that..care for you”

”I know, and if i let you, you would do it always, if not forever. Because you are one of those people, who put others first, who let go of their wants and desires just so that others are happy”

”Not so” He shakes his head, she laughs
”I am not sure you believe that. It is very so..see how you have cared for me, even when i didn’t deserve it”

”Why are you saying that?” He frowns slightly

”It’s the truth. I put my self in the hospital”

”You had an accident”
”An accident i let happen, all because i couldn’t bear the thought of letting you go after the one that makes your heart beat”
”Tammy..we don’t need to talk about that”

”We do..i was selfish, love is not selfish. I wanted you knowing that you were struggling with a love that..i could not phantom how and why you could love someone for so long even despite being apart. I thought i could have your heart…but it was not yours to give, never mine to take..it bared someone’s name right from the start. I knew it, yet i wanted you..That was selfish of me”

”It was selfish of me to think i could move on and still continued the relationship, So if you are blaming, you blame me not you”
”Oh Darren, what would i do with you?” She touches his cheeks

”You relax and let this man care for you okay. Ready to go home?”

She shakes her head ”Yes, yes i am ready finally to go home, to peace, to love and to happiness..home to a beginning of new things”

”Great, and i would be your chauffeur ”
”No!” She steps away from him.
”Why?” He frowns ”I am going home, back to the country to be with my parents, i got a job there, a judge of small community”
”Wow, that’s awesome” He was genuinely happy for her.
”I know right. ”
”But i don’t understand, your job here, your work that foundation you started, you have a life here…i am here” he is confused.
She leans in ”I am going home Darren, i am well…and i hate to be a stumbling block..i tried to pretend i don’t see you staring at the stars, i don’t hear when you call her name in your sleep, follow her on social media, drop voice mails which you never sent and the thousands ”I love you” you text to her and it bounces..i am tired of being the second woman when i can be the first. And i have been selfish”-

”No Tammy”
”yes i have been…and i need to let you go. You have done enough for me , put your life on hold, sacrificed your love for me…i was selfish because i wanted you all to myself i rammed my car into a tree knowing that you would come running. That was wrong…i know better now. I knew you loved someone when i wanted you..you told me..you told me and i refused to listen and i guess i just thought i could be Anna for you, i was wrong and i am sorry”
”Tammy?”


She shakes her head ”I love you, but it only takes a love as strong as yours to be buried within for years to stand the test of time. Find your love, this time, put you first Darren. Put you first!”

”It’s too late, she ..she stopped talking to me, replying my messages and just stopped. ” he stares down at his hands ”There is nothing to go back to when i have already lost her”
”Then find her. ” she leans in and kisses him on the cheek ”No one who is lost wouldn’t want to be found Darren. Find her. It is lover’s day afteral, how symbolic”
”i should go today..Tammy? Lets go home, stop being dramatic” he held her hand and pulls her towards the exit, she stops him.
”I already booked a car to take me home, my parents are picking me up. While you slept i made all the arrangement, even for this” she hands him an envelope, he frowns opening it
”You booked me a ticket?” surprise fills his face.


”And it leaves in thirty minutes, you should hit ground before 8pm…time enough to comb the city..” she kisses him again ”Chase your heart..find it, mend it and never let it go, and do not..i mean it Darren, do not put another first before you, you should take priority, you want something, go for it..you want this love, baby fight for it. Forget the times lost, remove the thought of she may not be…” with that she walks away . ”Thank you Darren, now it’s time to get your happiness” She enters into a car and it drives away.
He checks his time, he begins to run with his heart pounding in his chest.
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